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Tasmania-sprent-1859 $7,500.00 Title This Map of Tasmania in 1859, Sir Henry Edward Fox Young Knight Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath Being Governor in Chief, and teh Honble. Francis Smigh Attorney General being Premier is dedicated to his Excellency and the Parliament by James Sprent, Surveyor General. 1859 (dated) 1 : 316800 Description The first, largest, best colonial and settlement era map of Tasmania. This is the James Sprent / William Hogan 1859 map of Tasmania in its deluxe large-format presentation edition. It is the product of nearly 20 years of meticulous trigonometrical survey work and covers all of Tasmania with a heretofore unprecedented degree of precision. The map features manuscript annotation of several voyages dating to the 1920s, underscoring its enduring significance as the best reconnaissance of Tasmania more than 70 years after its issue.
Tributes paid to leading Rutland figure Air Vice-Marshal (Retd) Nigel Sudborough | Updated: 13:16, 04 February 2021 Tributes have been paid to leading Rutland figure, Air Vice-Marshal (Retd) Nigel Sudborough who died suddenly, aged 72, in Uppingham at the weekend. Mr Sudborough, from Uppingham, had a distinguished military career in the Royal Air Force,achieving the rank of Air Vice-Marshal, and served many important roles within Rutland after retirement. Born in Northampton, he attended Oundle School, and joined the RAF at 18 as a navigator radar operator on bombers, later in the famous 617 Squadron, the Dambusters. He became Officer Commanding at 29 Squadron, RAF Coningsby and spent a year in the Falkland Islands following the conflict for which he was awarded an OBE in 1988.