Henry James (1803–77)

Military officer. Second lieutenant, Royal Engineers, 1826; colonel, 1857. Joined the staff of the Ordnance Survey in 1827. Local superintendent, Geological Survey of Ireland, 1843–6. Transferred to Admiralty employment in 1846, but returned to the Ordnance Survey in 1850; superintendent, 1854–75. Director of the topographical and statistical department of the War Office, 1857–70. Knighted, 1860. FRS 1848.