Person DS/UK/3076 Kay; Joseph Henry (1814-1875); naval officer and scientist Kay Joseph Henry 1814-1875 naval officer and scientist Male Born in London 16 Nov 1814; died at South Yarra, Melbourne on 17 July 1785.

He joined the navy in 1827; he sailed as a lieutenant on H.M.S. Terror with Commander Crozier on the Antarctic expedition in 1839, but only got as far as Tasmania, where he was selected in 1840 to stay on to found and look after the Magnetic Observatory in Hobart. He styaed at the Observatory until 1853 (when Admiralty funding was withdrawn), after which he went to Victoria and held various Victorian public service posts. Second son of architect Joseph Kay and his wife Sarah Henrietta (nee Porden) Australian Dictionary of National Biography International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes staff 21/12/2018 DERBYSHIRE\71026502 27/05/2020 e64869a5-8125-47bf-945f-d28fdce5f9c3