John Edye FRS (7 August 1789 – 1 March 1873)Complete List of Royal Society Fellows 1660-2007
page 109 was the talented Chief Clerk in the

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's Office during the 19th century.Biography
of Symonds by

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on the Dictionary of National Biography, with details on Edye. He invented a new means of construction for wooden warships and produced the detail for the Surveyor William Symonds's many designs. Together he and Symonds created larger and larger wooden warships for the

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, which were able not only to defeat an enemy by weight of fire (as the Navy had long been able to do) but also to pursue them and force battle. Edye was elected a

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on 5 February 1835.

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John Edye's ''Calculations Relating to the Equipment, Displacement, Etc. of Ships and Vessels of War'', 1832, MS 546
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