John Edward Davis
1815–77
Naval officer and hydrographer. Second master on the Terror during the Antarctic expedition, 1839–43. Drew the charts for the expedition. Surveyor to the North Atlantic telegraph expedition, 1862. Naval assistant (curator of original documents) in the Hydrographic Department of the Admiralty, 1865–76. Captain, 1870.
Sources
Modern English biography
Navy list 1864–77.
Bibliography
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
Navy list: The navy list. London: John Murray; Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. 1815–1900.
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