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Thomas Jefferys
Thomas Jefferys (c. 1719 – 1771), "Geographer to King George III", was an English cartographer who was the leading map supplier of his day.〔Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004.〕 He engraved and printed maps for government and other official bodies and produced a wide range of commercial maps and atlases, especially of North America.〔''Buckinghamshire in the 1760s and 1820s: The County Maps of Jefferys and Bryant'', Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society, 2000, ISBN 0-949003-17-4. Information for this article has been taken from the introduction by Paul Laxton.〕
==Early work==
As "Geographer to the Prince of Wales", he produced ''A Plan of all the Houses, destroyed & damaged by the Great Fire, which begun in Exchange Alley Cornhill, on Friday March 25, 1748''.〔Peter Barber, ''The Map Book'', Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005, ISBN 0-297-84372-9, pp. 204-205.〕 He produced ''The Small English Atlas'' with Thomas Kitchin, and he engraved plans of towns in the English Midlands.〔
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