1800 - 1850
Thomas Fletcher Waghorn British
00
Thomas Fletcher Waghorn dating history
Relationships
We have no records of past relationships for Thomas Fletcher Waghorn.
About
Thomas Fletcher Waghorn is a member of the following lists: Royal Navy officers, Burials in England and People from Chatham, Kent.
Contribute
Who is Thomas Fletcher Waghorn dating? Thomas Fletcher Waghorn partner, spouse list. Help us build our profile of Thomas Fletcher Waghorn!
Login
to add information, pictures and relationships, join in discussions and get credit for your contributions.
Details
| First Name |
Thomas
|
| Middle Name |
Fletcher
|
| Last Name |
Waghorn
|
| Birthday |
30th November, 1799
|
| Died |
1850
|
| Nationality |
British
|
Thomas Fletcher Waghorn (20 June 1800–7 January 1850) was an English sailor, navy officer, and postal pioneer who promoted and claimed the idea of a new route from Great Britain to India overland through Egypt prior to the development of the Suez Canal. Waghorn claimed to have demonstrated the route for the first time in 1829-30 and that it reduced the journey from over 11,000 miles (18,000 km) to 6,000 miles (9,700 km) and while steamships around the Cape of Good Hope took about three months, his route took between 35 and 45 days. A 2004 biography states that there is little substance to many of the claims that he made and that he was mostly a fraudulent self-publicist. This contradicts an earlier historical study.
A statue of him stands in Chatham, Kent while another, now destroyed, was installed at Suez by Ferdinand de Lesseps in 1869.
More about Thomas Fletcher Waghorn
Less about Thomas Fletcher Waghorn
