John Duthie, lighthouse keeper, was the son of John Duthie and his wife Ellen. He entered the civil service of the Cape Colony on 1 October 1867. By 1879 he was the lighthouse keeper at Cape St Francis, and that year the Meteorological Commission of the Cape of Good Hope supplied him with a barometer, wet and dry bulb thermometer, anemometer, and rain gauge. He supplied regular meteorological observations from the beginning of 1880, summaries of which were published in the Commission's annual Report. On 7 September 1883 he was transferred to Port Elizabeth as lighthouse keeper. There he continued his meteorological observations until the end of 1899, a total period of 20 years, at the end of which he left the civil service.

List of sources:

Cape of Good Hope. Civil service list, 1888, 1896, 1898, 1899.

Cape of Good Hope. Report of the Meteorological Commission, 1879-1897, 1899.

FamilySearch: John Duthie. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-G5X9-9H51?view=index&personArk=/ark:/61903/1:1:QPHP-KLGB&action=view and https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQF-ZRN3?view=index&personArk=/ark:/61903/1:1:QP7T-6984&action=view

General directory and guide-book to the Cape of Good Hope and its dependencies, 1886, pp. 187-206: Public service 1884.

Compiled by: C. Plug

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