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Lloyd, John Augustus (1800-1854)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS/233

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Lloyd, John Augustus (1800-1854)

Date(s): c 1830

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s): Lloyd | John Augustus | 1800-1854 | engineer and surveyor

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1800; educated successively at private schools at Tooting and at Winchester; joined his elder brother, who was king's counsel at Tortola (Virgin Islands), 1815, and spent his time surveying and learning Spanish and French; served for some years on Simón Bolívar's staff, Colombia, as a captain of engineers, and ultimately attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel; granted permission to survey the Isthmus of Panama and report on the best means of inter-oceanic communication, 1827; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1830; employed, under the joint direction of the Board of Admiralty and the Royal Society, in determining the difference of level in the Thames between London Bridge and the sea, 1830-1831; colonial civil engineer and surveyor-general, Mauritius, 1831-1849; associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers and served on the council, 1849; special commissioner charged with organizing displays of manufacturing and industrial products for the Great Exhibition, 1851; British chargé d'affaires to Bolivia, 1851; died, 1854.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Operations connected with the Levellings carried across the Isthmus of Panama by John Augustus Lloyd, c 1830.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Paper, bound, size 6.25 x 4.25 inches.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Surveying

Personal names
Lloyd | John Augustus | 1800-1854 | engineer and surveyor

Corporate names

Places
Panama | Central America