Flashcards: English surveyors

Ralph Agas (or Radulph Agas) (c. 1540 – 26 November 1621) was an English land surveyor and cartographer.

Richard Cowling Taylor (18 January 1789 – 26 October 1851) was an English surveyor and geologist.

Edward Hatton (c. 1664 – after 1733) was a surveyor for a fire insurance company in London who wrote A New View of London: or, an Ample Account of that City, in Two Volumes, or Eight Sections.

John Rocque (originally Jean; c. 1709–1762) was a surveyor and cartographer.

Henry MacLauchlan (26 April 1792 – 27 January 1882) was a British military, geological and archaeological surveyor.

Jesse Hartley (21 December 1780 – 24 August 1860) was Civil Engineer and Superintendent of the Concerns of the Dock Estate in Liverpool, England between 1824 and 1860.

John Johnson (22 April 1732 – 17 August 1814) was an English architect and Surveyor to the County of Essex.

John Kirby (1690–1753) was an English land surveyor and topographer.

Sir Jonas Moore, FRS (1617–1679) was an English mathematician, surveyor, Ordnance Officer and patron of astronomy.

Simon Basil (fl. 1590 — 1615) was an English surveyor or architect, who held the post of Surveyor of the King's Works, 1606-15.

Richard Zachariah Mudge (also Zachary) (1790–1854) was an English officer of the Royal Engineers, known as a surveyor.

Thomas Bell (16 December 1785 – 30 April 1860) was a land surveyor, antiquary and book seller.

John Young (born 1797 in Mildenhall, Suffolk, died 23 March 1877 at Stoke Newington, London) was an English architect and surveyor whose career spanned the grace of the Regency period and the pragmatism of the Industrial Revolution.

Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt (11 May 1811 – 12 March 1888) was an English vice-admiral, hydrographer, and geologist.

Jeremiah Dixon FRS (27 July 1733 – 22 January 1779) was an English surveyor and astronomer who is best known for his work with Charles Mason, from 1763 to 1767, in determining what was later called the Mason-Dixon line.

Brigadier Martin Hotine CMG CBE (17 June 1898 – 12 November 1968) was the head of the Trigonometrical and Levelling Division of the Ordnance Survey responsible for the 26-year-long retriangulation of Great Britain (1936–1962) and was the first Director General of the Directorate of Overseas Surveys (1946–1985).

Edward C. Allcard (born 31 October 1914) is an English naval architect, marine surveyor, yachtsman and author.

Henry Treise Morshead DSO, RE, FRGS (23 November 1882 – 17 May 1931) was an English surveyor, explorer and mountaineer.

Charles Mason (April 1728 [baptised 1 May] – 25 October 1786) was an English astronomer who made significant contributions to 18th-century science and American history, particularly through his involvement with the survey of the Mason-Dixon line, which came to mark the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania (1764–1768).

Frederick Wood (1807 – 18 November 1893) was an English surveyor and land agent who lived and worked in Rugby, Warwickshire from about 1840 to 1881.

Lancelot Gerald Hasluck (10 November 1861 - 2 July 1937) was an English surveyor and philanthropist who founded the Lancelot Hasluck Trust.

Thomas Burrowes (1796–1866) was a Captain with the Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners who served as both a surveyor and overseer during the construction of the Rideau Canal in Ontario, Canada.

Daniel Asher Alexander (6 May 1768 – 2 March 1846) was a British architect and engineer, born in London.

Frederic Alonzo Carrington (Oct 1807 – 15 July 1901) was a 19th-century New Zealand politician and surveyor.

Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe (May 1, 1764 – September 3, 1820) was a British subject and neoclassical architect.

William James Harris, 6th Earl of Malmesbury TD (18 November 1907 – 11 November 2000), styled Viscount FitzHarris until 1950, was a British peer.

William Romaine Govett (3 October 1807 – 22 August 1848) was a painter and assistant surveyor in the Surveyor-General's Department of New South Wales and after whom Govetts Leap was named.

John Augustus Lloyd (1800–1854) was an English engineer and surveyor.

Thomas Lediard (1685–1743) was an English writer and surveyor.

Edmund Weaver (c. 1683 – 27 December 1748) was an English astronomer, land surveyor, and friend to William Stukeley.

Peter Fidler (16 August 1769 – 17 December 1822) was a British surveyor, map-maker, chief fur trader and explorer who had a long career in the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company in what later became Canada.

William Benson (1682 – 2 February 1754) was a talented amateur architect and an ambitious and self-serving Whig place-holder in the government of George I.

William Dawes (1762–1836) was an officer of the British Marines, an astronomer, engineer, botanist, surveyor, explorer, abolitionist and colonial administrator.

William J. Haywood (December 8, 1821 – April 13, 1894) was a surveyor and an engineer to the City of London Commissioners of Sewers.

William Leybourn (1626—1716) was an English mathematician and land surveyor.

William Mudge (1762–1820) was an English artillery officer and surveyor, born in Plymouth, an important figure in the work of the Ordnance Survey.

The prominent post of Bath City Architect and Surveyor was bestowed by the Corporation of Bath, Somerset, England, on an architect who would be repeatedly chosen for civic projects.

Robert Adams (1540–1595) was a 16th-century English architect, engraver and surveyor of buildings to Queen Elizabeth.

Robert Johnson (c 1537 – 1622) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1597 to 1614.

Roger Cuthbert Wakefield CMG, OBE, FRICS (born 1906) was a prominent English surveyor, former director of the British Sudan Survey department, and an early twentieth century rugby union international who is known as one of the "lost lions" due to his participation on the 1927 British Lions tour to Argentina which, although retrospectively recognised as a Lions tour, did not confer test status on any of the four encounters with the Argentina national rugby union team.

Roger Taverner (died 1572) of Upminster, Essex was an English administrator and Member of Parliament for Newport, Cornwall.

Benjamin Cole (1695–1766) was an English surveyor, cartographer, instrument maker, engraver and bookbinder living in Oxford.

Thomas Brunner (April 1821 – 22 April 1874) was an English-born surveyor and explorer remembered for his exploration of the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island.

Robert Hoddle (20 April 1794 – 24 October 1881) was a surveyor of Port Phillip District (later known as the Australian state of Victoria) in the 1830s, and the creator of the Hoddle Grid, the street grid system upon which inner city Melbourne is based.

Sir Charles Herbert Bressey CB, CBE (3 January 1874 – 14 April 1951) was a civil engineer and surveyor who specialised in road design.

Christopher Crabb Creeke (11 March 1820 – 1886) was an architect and surveyor who was largely responsible for shaping the early development of Bournemouth.

Marianne Suhr MRICS (born c. 1969) is an English Chartered Building Surveyor, writer, and expert on historic buildings.

Alexander Thomas Emeric Vidal (1792 – 5 February 1863) was an officer of the Royal Navy.

Charles Grimes (24 February 1772 – 19 February 1858) was an English surveyor who did some valuable work in colonial Australia.

Edward Nicholas "Ned" Kendall, R.

James Blackburn (10 August 1803 – 3 March 1854) was an English civil engineer, surveyor and architect best known for his work in Australia, where he had been transported as a sentence for forgery.

Samuel Augustus Perry (1787–1854) was an English-born soldier and surveyor.

Samuel Pepys Cockerell (1753–1827) was an English architect.