William James Lloyd Wharton
1843–1905
Naval officer and hydrographer. Entered the navy in 1857; commander, 1872; captain, 1880; hydrographer, 1884. Published Hydrographical surveying (1882), which became the standard textbook on the subject. Knighted, 1895.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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