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Admiral Sir Bartholomew James Sulivan, KCB (18 November 1810 – 1 January 1890) [1] was a British naval officer and hydrographer. He was a leading advocate of the value of nautical surveying in relation to naval operations. Sulivan was born at Mylor, Cornwall, near Falmouth, [2] the son of Rear Admiral Thomas Ball Sulivan. [3]
The James J. Sullivan School is a historic elementary school that is located in the Frankford neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia , and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
His father, James Bartholomew Sullivan, owned a paper mill there employing about 400 people. He escaped a fire allegedly started by workers disaffected with the introduction of labour-saving machinery. Sullivan studied at the Christian Brothers school in Cork city. His first lectures were at the Cork Mechanics' Institute, Cork Street.
The naval family of Bartholomew James Sulivan (1810–1890) maintained a house there, as did many Royal and merchant Navy officers in the nineteenth century. Sulivan as a young naval officer in the 1830s was a friend and shipmate of Charles Darwin on the historic HMS Beagle voyage (which docked in Falmouth on 2 October 1836, an event briefly ...
The district is yet to announce the new name for the proposed school. Sullivan told county commissioners at the budget committee that the campus will be the "first alternative school for grades (1 ...
From the Palm Beach Post archives: Hunt for James Sullivan’s riches 28 years after he had wife Lita McClinton killed
This island, and Sulivan Bay on Santiago island, are named after naturalist and lifelong friend of Charles Darwin, Sir Bartholomew James Sulivan, who was a lieutenant aboard HMS Beagle. [ 2 ] The islet has a total land area of 1.2 square kilometres (0.5 square miles), and consists of an extinct volcano and a variety of red, orange, green, and ...
Bartholomew James was born at Falmouth on 28 December 1752. In 1765 he was entered on board the Folkestone cutter, stationed at Bideford; in her, and afterwards in the West Indian and Lisbon packets, he remained till December 1770, when he was appointed to the Torbay at Plymouth, and in the following May to the Falcon sloop, going out to the West Indies.