NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Maw, Henry Lister LBT ID: HeMaw1874 VIAF ID: 10191657 LOC ID: n91052489 | B/BAP: 1801 DIED: 1874-12-07 |
SOURCES: The United Service Magazine (January 1875) 122; The Geographical Magazine (January 1875) 24; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
English seaman who enlisted in the Navy in 1818 and explored the Amazon to its source in
1827; he retired in 1861. He published Journal of a Passage from the
Pacific to the Atlantic (1829). | |