Lieutenant-General Sir Henry James was a Royal Engineers officer who served as the director-general of the Ordnance Survey, the British Government mapping agency, from 1854 to 1875. Sir Henry was desc
Photograph of the photography building and Henry James
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Mithian is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is about six miles northeast of Redruth and a mile east of St Agnes.
Henry James (British Army officer)
…process known as Photozincography or Zinco. Sir Henry also played a part in the resolving of the battle of the scales. Born in 1803 at Rose in Vale, Mithian, Cornwall, he was the fifth son of John James of Truro and Jane, daughter of John Hoskers. He attended a grammar school in Exeter and the Royal Military…
Mithian parish church near Chiverton Cross
Tower at St Peter's Mithian
The South entrance of the church
Showing the window in the east end of the church