Sir William Symonds CB FRS (24 September 1782 – 30 March 1856, aboard the French steamship Nil, Strait of Bonifacio, Sardinia) was Surveyor of the Navy in the Royal Navy from 9 June 1832 to October 1847, and took part in the naval reforms instituted by the Whig First Lord of the Admiralty Sir James Robert George Graham in 1832.
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24 September 1782 Bury St Edmunds
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Died |
30 March 1856 (aged 73) Aboard the French steamship Nil in the Strait of Bonifacio, off Sardinia
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Zodiac | Libra |
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