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HENRY JAMES

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Henry James was an American writer. He was born in 1843 at New York and died in 1916. After travelling in the USA and Europe and following irregular studies in Law at Harvard, in 1856 Henry James started writing short stories and literary reviews before writing novels. He had a friendship, for a while, with HG Wells and in 1915 became a British subject and was awarded the Order of Merit.

Sir Henry James was director of the Ordnance Survey. He was born in 1803 at Rose-in-Vale and died in 1877. In 1854 he succeeded Colonel Hall as director- general of the Ordnance Survey and in 1859 introduced the art of photozincography.
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