1. William Lambton died during the course of the surveys in central India and is buried at Hinganghat in Wardha district of Maharashtra.
21 Facts About William Lambton
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William Lambton was extremely reserved about the details of his family.
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The Coorg Raja made all present declare their age and William Lambton is said to have mentioned his as fifty.
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William Lambton often mentioned a mathematics teacher at school by the name of Emerson.
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William Lambton spent most of his earning to support his parents.
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William Lambton then joined the 33rd at Calcutta after 13 years away from regimental duties.
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In 1796, William Lambton was promoted to Lieutenant and posted with his regiment to India, under the command of Colonel Arthur Wellesley.
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William Lambton took part in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War in 1799.
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William Lambton was a brigade major during the Siege of Seringapatam where he led the left column after the fall of his superiors.
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William Lambton was able to demonstrate his skills in navigating by the stars during the campaign and had prevented a critical error when General Baird was headed in the wrong direction while attempting to get around Tipu's camp at night.
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William Lambton's proposal was however examined by Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal and a relative of Lord Clive.
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Just around the time that William Lambton got his survey approved by Lord Clive, he happened to hear of some instruments being carried back from China by astronomer Dr James Dinwiddie.
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William Lambton ordered an altitude and azimuth circle with a theodolite.
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William Lambton died at Hinganghat, and the exact date of death is not known but is either 20th as recorded by most contemporary newspapers or 26 January 1823.
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William Lambton had three acknowledged children through an Indian mistress named Kumerboo.
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William Lambton had another daughter and son through another woman Frances, possibly a Franco-Indian or Anglo-Indian.
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Around the time that William Lambton proposed a triangulation survey of the peninsula of India, Colonel Colin Mackenzie had already begun a topographical survey of the Mysore region.
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William Lambton essentially followed a system established in England by General Roy for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain.
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William Lambton did not wish to assume any specific theoretical shape and preferred to make exact measurements.
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William Lambton measured all three angles of triangles in several cases to establish the spherical excess.
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William Lambton was made a Fellow of the Royal Society and a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1817.