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Thomas Lynn (2 January 1774 – 2 May 1847) was a

Bombay Marine The Royal Indian Navy (RIN) was the naval force of British India and the Dominion of India. Along with the Presidency armies, later the Indian Army, and from 1932 the Royal Indian Air Force, it was one of the Armed Forces of British India. Fr ...

officer and writer.

Life

He was born 2 January 1774 at

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, where his father was a medical practitioner. At the age of 11 he entered the

. On leaving it at the rank of

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many years later, he was appointed examiner in nautical astronomy to the company's officers. He kept a naval academy at 148

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, London, and died at

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on 2 May 1847, aged 73.

Works

Lynn wrote: * ''An Improved System of Telegraphic Communication'', London, 1814; 2nd edit. 1818. * ''Solar Tables'', 1821. * ''Star Tables'' for 1822, etc. * ''Astronomical and other Tables'', 1824. * ''A New Method of finding the Longitude'', two editions, 1826. * ''Horary Tables for finding the Time by Inspection'', 1827; 2nd edit. 1828. * ''Practical Methods for finding the Latitude'', 1833. * ''New Star Tables'', 1843. A chapter by him on the navigation of the China seas formed part of the volumes on China published in the ''

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'', 1836; 3rd edit. 1843.

References

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