| Authorised form of name | Washington; John (? 1800 - 1863) |
| Dates | ? 1800 - 1863 |
| Date of birth | 1800 or 01 January 1801 |
| Place of death | Havre, France |
| Date of death | 16 September 1863 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
In the Protestant cemetery in Havre, France |
| Activity | Career:
Captain, Royal Navy; served on board HM Surveying Vessel Blazer (1845)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 13/02/1845 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1863-1864 vol 13 pp vii-viii
Notes:
Boase gives birth date as 01 January 1801. |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/32766293 |
| Code | NA7636 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1845/08 | Washington, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/4/86 | Letter from John Washington, on a paper 'Reduction and discussion of the deviations of the compass observed on board of all the iron-built ships, and a selection of the wood-built steam-ships in Her Majesty's Navy, and the iron steam-ship 'Great Eastern'' by Frederick John Evans | 7 May 1860 |
| MC/3 | Volume 3 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1839-1843 |
| MC/3/73 | Letter from John Washington, [secretary of the] Royal Geographical Society, to Samuel Hunter Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society | 11 March 1840 |
| MS/257/5/51 | Letter from John Washington, [Admiralty] to Edward Sabine | 3 August 1861 |
| MS/257/5/48 | Letter from John Washington, [Admiralty] to Edward Sabine | 15 April 1854 |
| MS/257/5/49 | Letter from John Washington, [Admiralty] to Edward Sabine | 12 December 1855 |
| AP/39/17 | Unpublished paper, 'Description of a chronometer compass' by Ralph Reeder | 1857 |
| MS/257/5/47 | Letter from John Washington, Woolwich to Edward Sabine | 22 March 1854 |
| MS/257/5/52 | Letter from John Washington, Havre to Edward Sabine | 3 September 1862 |
| MS/257/5/50 | Letter from John Washington, [Admiralty] to Edward Sabine | 26 January 1859 |
| PT/61/5 | Paper, 'Reduction and discussion of the deviations of the compass observed on board of all the iron built ships, and a selection of the wood built steam ships in H M [Her Majesty's] Navy; and the iron steam ship Great Eastern: being a report to the hydrographer of the Admiralty' by Frederick J [John Owen] Evans | 19 April 1860 |
| MA/73 | Meteorological observations at Harwich, England, by John Washington and others | 21-22 December 1841 |