John Cary (c.1754 - 1835)
John Cary and his brother William were active globe-makers in London though John Cary was also an engraver and publisher and came to be regarded as one of the leading English cartographers.
In 1787 Cary published his New and Correct English Atlas. Although lacking in the type of decoration characteristic of earlier map-makers they are nevertheless elegant in their clarity and finely engraved detail.This atlas proved to be very popular and many editions were published, the final one being in 1862.

Robert Morden (1668 - 1703)
He produced a varied range of maps such as geographical playing cards, a 12 sheet plan of London and the maps for which he is best known : the 1695 edition of Camden's Britannia, published by Dr. Edmund Gibson, Bishop of Lincoln and was previously published in 1637 with maps by William Hole and William Kip. It Is generally thought that there were four editions of the Morden Britannia - 1695, 1722, 1753 and 1772.

Sydney Hall (1818 - 1860)
Sydney Hall worked as a map maker at a time when the demand for highly decorative maps had declined. However his renowned eye for detail was put to good use in the many maps he produced for several atlases of the period where clarity and accuracy took precedence over elaborate decoration.

Emanuel Bowen (1714 - 1767)
Emanuel Bowen was a print and map seller by trade, he was also engraver to both George II and Louis XV of France. From 1714 onwards he worked in London and began to produce some of the finest and most appealing maps of that era. He had great plans to publish a complete County Atlas, however he simply did not have the means to achieve this alone; so he joined forces with another map-maker, Thomas Kitchin, and together they published 'The Large English Atlas'.

John Ogilby (1600 - 1676)
In the world of cartography, Ogilby is remembered as a man who led a far from ordinary life. Beginning as a dance master and ending as Cosmographer and Geographic Printer by appointment to the King. In the interim years he was tutor to the children of the Earl of Stafford, built and ran a theatre in Dublin, translated numerous Greek and Latin texts and started a successful publishing business.

John Speed (1552 - 1629)
Until he was in his mid to late thirties, John Speed, like his father before him was a tailor by trade. However he had a passion for history and devoted his leisure to map making. In 1598 he gained a patron in Sir Fulke Greville, the poet and statesman who recognized his cartographic skill, relieved him from tailoring.

Thomas Moule (1784 - 1851)
Thomas Moule (1784-1851) was a scholar and writer on heraldry and antiquities who worked in London as a bookseller and later on worked in the Lord Chamberlain's department.
The County Maps for which he is best known were first published in the 1830's in the reign of William IV and re-issued in 1841 in the reign of Victoria.

John Bartholomew (1890 - 1962)
Born in Edinburgh, the son of John George Bartholomew (1860 - 1920) the noted cartographer. Bartholomew was educated in Leipzig, Paris and at the University of Edinburgh and entered the family business on the death of his father. Bartholomew inherited the task of completing his father's Times Survey Atlas of the World (1921).