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Names:
Other: Major-General Henry James 
Other: Major-General Sir Henry James 
Other: Sir Henry James 
Dates:  1803 - 1877
Active:  UK
 
  
Director-General of the Ordnance Survey between 1854 and 1875 and an active advocate for the use of photography. His book "Stonehenge, Turusachan, Cromlechs, and Sculptured Stones" (London: Edward Stanford, 1867) was illustrated with photographic prints and there is a copy in the British Library (Shelfmark: 10351.i.2). For an additional sum (1s 3d unmounted or 1s 9d mounted) one could purchase an additional photograph of "Stonehenge Restored, showing Druidical Sacrifice by Night".
 
The Royal Society (London) has a collection of his albumen prints of Stonehenge.

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