biography
| name: |
Saxton, Christopher
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1544–c.1611)
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| biography:
| Surveyor and cartographer, probably born in Sowood, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He may have studied at Cambridge University. He was commissioned by Elizabeth I to carry out the first survey of all the counties of England and Wales, and worked under the patronage of Thomas Seckford, Master of the Queen's Requests. His atlas (1579) was the first national atlas of any country, and he is often called ‘the father of English cartography’. |
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