Welsh officer of the British Royal Navy, sailed with Charles Darwin (1811–1885)
A portrait of Stokes by Stephen Pearce
Admiral John Lort Stokes (1 August 1811[1] – 11 June 1885) was a Royal Navy officer who served onboard HMS Beagle for almost eighteen years.[Notes 1]
^Hordern 2003, p. 3
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leading a five-man exploration expedition along the coast, commemorating JohnLortStokes' work on HMS Beagle surveying the Western Australian coast. The area...
coronation of King George IV of the United Kingdom; in his 1846 Journal, JohnLortStokes said that the ship was taken up the River Thames to salute the coronation...
previous commander, Captain Pringle Stokes.[citation needed] Another possible source is the unrelated JohnLortStokes, who was mate and assistant surveyor...
leading a five-man exploration expedition along the coast, commemorating JohnLortStokes' work on HMS Beagle, surveying the Western Australian coast. The inlet...
mathematician) (1720–1781), Irish mathematician JohnLortStokes (1811–1885), officer in the Royal Navy Jack Stokes (director) (1920–2013), animation director...
exploring and surveying the area in 1848 after his friend Admiral JohnLortStokes. The catchment of the river has been extensively cleared for Agricultural...
Europeans until Captain John Grono discovered it c.1812 and named it Milford Haven after his homeland in Wales. Captain JohnLortStokes later renamed Milford...
genus and species were first published by Sir John Richardson in an appendix to Volume 1 of JohnLortStokes' 1846 Discoveries in Australia. The specific...
Leadbeater, Henslow, Yarrell, Phillip Parker King, JohnLortStokes, Robert Edmond Grant, Frederick William Hope John van Wyhe (ed.). "Darwin's 'Journal' (1809–1881)...
from lieutenant to captain and given command of the Beagle, while Lt JohnLortStokes – a shipmate from the first two journeys of the Beagle – was made first...
instead joined the crew of HMS Beagle, then under the command of Captain JohnLortStokes. This was the same Beagle on which Charles Darwin had made his famous...
river for millennia. Lieutenant Fitzmaurice, under the command of JohnLortStokes, sighted the river on a boating expedition. The expedition was part...
discovered and named in April 1840 by John Clements Wickham, captain of HMS Beagle. Wickham's assistant JohnLortStokes later wrote: "On the south west point...
appears to have been Lieutenant JohnLortStokes of HMS Beagle on 9 September 1839. The ship's captain, Commander John Clements Wickham, named the port...
discovered Champion Bay. He was followed by Captain John Clements Wickham and Lieutenant JohnLortStokes of HMS Beagle, who led an expedition to the area...
was then given to JohnLortStokes. Other than mentioning that he carried a pocket chronometer by French which gave good results, Stokes' account of the...
Point Moore and Bluff Point. Champion Bay was named by Lieutenant JohnLortStokes of HMS Beagle, who surveyed the area in April 1840. He named it after...
in northern Western Australia, was named after him by Lieutenant JohnLortStokes who, at the time, commanded HMS Beagle (previously commanded by FitzRoy)...
two-volume work by JohnLortStokes. It comprises the edited journals of the explorations and surveys, both maritime and inland, of Stokes and other members...
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