Person Thomson; Sir; John Deas (c 1763 - 1838); British Navy administrator Thomson John Deas Sir British Navy administrator c 1763 - 1838 British Male Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom 1763 1763 21 February 1838 18380221

Farleigh Priory, Maidstone, Kent, South-east England, England

Naval official; colonial official Career: Naval officer and store-keeper, Leith Scotland (1801); Private Secretary to Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, the First Lord of the Admiralty (1805-1806);.Navy Commissioner (1805-1829); Accountant-General of the Navy (1829-1832); Naval Store Keeper, Cape of Good Hope dockyard [South Africa]; Cape Thompson, an Alaskan headland on the Chukchi Sea was named after him by Captain Frederick William Beechey RN (1826) Honours: KCH 1832 Memberships: FLS Son of John ThomsonMarried Rebecca Freer, daughter of John a South Carolina planter Received compensation on the emancipation of enslaved people due to his interest as a trustee for a creditor or mortgage holder of a plantation in St Kitts. Fellow 16/11/1820 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; Wikipedia; GM; ODNB (entry for Edward Deas Thomson); UCL LBS References: 'Sir John Deas Thomson', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/43995 [accessed 23rd July 2020] International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 1763 - 21 Feb 1838 NA4553 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB yes 6c985a2b-2703-4b0a-9035-7597612c4f1e