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COLBY, THOMAS FREDERICK (1784-1852)

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 660 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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COLBY, THOMAS FREDERICK (1784-1852) , British major-general and director of ordnance survey, was born at St
Margaret
 's, Rochester, on the 1st of September 1784, a member of a
South
  Wales family. Entering the Royal Engineers he began in 1802 a
life
 -
long
  connexion with the Ordnance Survey department. His most important
work
  was the survey of
Ireland
 . This he planned in 1824, and was engaged upon it until 1846. The last sheets of this survey were almost ready for issue in that year when he reached the rank of major-general, and according to the rules of the service had to vacate his survey
appointment
 . He was the inventor of the compensation bar, an apparatus used in base-measurements. He died at New
Brighton
  on the 9th of October 1852.


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