Thomas Jefferys

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Thomas Jefferys (also: T. Jefferies , Jeffery , Jeffereys , Jeffreys or Gefferys ; * around 1719 - † November 20, 1771 ) was an English geographer , cartographer , engraver , publisher , bookseller and printer with his seat at various addresses in London in the 18th century Century. During the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover he was first geographer of the Prince of Wales and later, from 1760, the "geographer of King George III. “As the leading map drawer of his time.

life and work

Portraits of King George II and his officials, 1746
Multi-color print of a map of Alaska and the Northwest Passage ; Created in 1768

Thomas Jefferys was the son of a cutler . His career as a commercial cartographer began around 1744. He engraved and printed a large number of commercial maps and atlases , especially maps of North America, for the British government as well as for other institutions .

In 1754 he wrote his work The conduct of the French, with regard to Nova Scotia: from its first settlement to the present time; in which are exposed the falsehood and absurdity of their arguments made use of to elude the force of the treaty of Utrecht, and support their unjust proceedings; in a letter to a member of Parliament . and published numerous geographical works until 1768, although in 1766 he got into financial difficulties. His successor William II Faden published under the name Faden and Jefferys until around 1774 .

The following addresses of Jeffery in London are known for the following periods:

  • 1753-1765: Corner of St. Martin's Lane ;
  • 1757: EE Brauns Carte of the area around the city of Hannover = A plan of the city of Hannover and the country adjacent , ( Wales ): Publishd by T. Jefferys, 1757
  • 1769: Charing Cross ;
  • 1771: beach .

Literature (selection)

  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  • Ingrid Kretschmer (Red.), E. Tomasi (Mitarb.) Et al. : Lexicon on the history of cartography . From the beginnings to the First World War , Vol. 1: A - L , Vienna: Deuticke, 1986, ISBN 3-7005-4562-2
  • John Goss: The Mapping of North America: Three Centuries of Map-Making 1500-1860, Secausus: The Wellfleet Press, 1990
  • William P. Cumming et al .: The exploration of North America 1630 - 1776 , New York: GP Putnam's Son, 1974
  • Adrian Johnson: America Explored , New York: The Viking Press, 1974

Web links

Commons : Thomas Jefferys  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library and cross-references
  2. ↑ a b c d e Compare the information (in French) from the Bibliothèque nationale de France
  3. ↑ a b c footnote 111 in Hanne Borchmeyer: The American artist milieu in Venice. From 1880 to the present (= Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani: Studi , New Series, Vol. 10), also dissertation 2011 at the University of Munich under the title The Development of the American Artistic Environment in Venice , Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-05-006087-3 and ISBN 3-05-006087-5 , p. 28; online through google books
  4. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Personal union. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 498.
  5. ↑ archive.org: Copy in the Internet Archive
  6. ↑ Information in WorldCat
personal data
SURNAME Jefferys, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jefferies, Thomas; Jefferys, T .; Jefferies, T .; Jeffery, Thomas; Jeffereys, T .; Jeffreys, T .; Gefferys, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English geographer, cartographer, engraver, publisher, bookseller and printer, purveyor to King George II.
DATE OF BIRTH around 1719
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1771