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Dear Ms/Mr Ali
Kedge,
A few minutes ago
David Sherren posted on an internet discussion list - for (mostly British Isles)
map curators/historians - your e-mail request for assistance on a
4-part tv series about a surveyor-mapmaker [and dance master, translator,
etc.] whose name is mis-spelt: this does not bode well for your
research. Similarly for his alleged (by whom?) achievement "as he recorded the first ever map of Wales."
You would find
masses of material - biographical and cartographical - were you to search for
'OGILBY, John' on, for example, COPAC [http://www.copac.ac.uk]. As for
"the first ever map of Wales": if you were to contact the National Library of
Wales (via: [log in to unmask]) this
would be a good start! In fact one of my ex-Map Room Assistants, Mr Huw
Thomas, is employed there now. An off-list English gentleman who,
about 6 years ago, obtained his PhD on John Ogilby and his road maps
(especially) - Dr Donald Hodson - could be contacted; but I advise you to do
some background reading and research first (as he would reasonably expect you to
have done).
Yours
sincerely
(Mr) Francis
Herbert, former Curator of Maps, Royal Geographcial Society (with
IBG)
