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Robert Moresby

1796/7–1854

Naval officer in the Indian Navy. Carried out surveys in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean.

Sources

BMD (Death Index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1512/96/10)

Dawson 1885 2: 72

Bibliography

Dawson, Llewellyn Styles. 1885. Memoirs of hydrography including brief biographies of the principal officers who have served in HM naval surveying service between the years 1750 and 1885. 2 pts. Eastbourne: Henry W. Keay. [Facsimile reprint, London: Cornmarket Press, 1969.]

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