Francis Beaufort
1774–1857
Naval officer and hydrographer. Retired as rear-admiral in 1846. Hydrographer to the navy, 1829–55. Originator of the Beaufort scale for wind force. Knighted, 1848. FRS 1814.
Sources
ODNB
Record of the Royal Society of London.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Record of the Royal Society of London: The record of the Royal Society of London for the promotion of natural knowledge. 4th edition. London: Royal Society. 1940.
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