WHARTON (William James Lloyd, 1843-1905, Admiral, Hydrographer of the Navy)

Autograph Letter signed to Guillenard, saying that he knows “of no publication which summarises what Germans are doing in New Guinea. We pick out of Petermann and the Annalen der Hydrographie all that concerns us, but we haven’t heard much lately. I have told them to send you a chart...” 2 sides 8vo., Hydrographic Department, Admiralty headed paper, 30th March

Wharton entered the navy in August 1857 and made captain in 1880. In August 1884 he was appointed hydrographer of the navy in succession to Sir Frederick Evans, and held this post until August 1904, becoming the longest serving hydrographer after Sir Francis Beaufort. He died in Cape Town in 1905 of enteric fever while visiting as acting president for the geographical department of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

Item Date:  1891

Stock No:  42929      £175

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