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COLBY, THOMAS FREDERICK (1784-1852)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 660 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COLBY, See also:THOMAS See also:FREDERICK (1784-1852) , See also:British See also:major-See also:general and director of See also:ordnance survey, was See also:born at St See also:Margaret's, See also:Rochester, on the 1st of See also:September 1784, a member of a See also:South See also:Wales See also:family. Entering the Royal See also:Engineers he began in 1802 a See also:life-See also:long connexion with the Ordnance Survey See also:department. His most important See also:work was the survey of See also: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 See also:year when he reached the See also:rank of major-general, and according to the rules of the service had to vacate his survey See also:appointment. He was the inventor of the See also:compensation See also:bar, an apparatus used in See also:base-measurements. He died at New See also:Brighton on the 9th of See also:October 1852.

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