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Date transcribed2011-05-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Jones    
First Name(s)  John Felix    
Year of Birth  ?    
Year of Death  1878    
Entry  Captain in the Indian Navy : made charts of the Red Sea : in the survey of Ceylon and Mesopotamia : from 1843 was on the survey of the Tigris and Euphrates : discovered the ancient Opis in 1850 : mapped and wrote on Nineveh and surrounding country and Bagdad, 1852-3 : Political Agent at Bagdad, 1854 : in the Persian Gulf, 1855 : served in the Persian war and the mutiny : then retired : made a map of Western Asia : F.R.G.S. : died Sep. 3, 1878.    
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