John Henry Lefroy
1817–90
Army officer and meteorologist. At the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 1831–4. Made an expedition to discover the geomagnetic characteristics of British North America and to attempt to locate the magnetic north pole, 1843–4. Retired from the army, 1870. Governor of Bermuda, 1871–7; of Tasmania, 1880–1. Published on many subjects, including meteorology, botany, military history, and the Bermudas. FRS 1848. Knighted, 1877.
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ODNB.
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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