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P1228 · Person · 1695-1766

Benjamin Cole, 1695-1766, was an English cartographer, engraver and sculptor active in London in the first half of the 18th century. He drew up the ward maps for the first edition of the historian and topographer William Maitland's (c.1693–1757) posthumous History of London from Its Foundation to the Present Time (1769). His son, also Benjamin, 1725-1813, was apprenticed to his father in 1739.

P1229 · Person · 1825- 1901

John James Dower, 1825-1901, was a mapmaker, print seller, and publisher based in London. Dower was the heir to the more prominent London engraver and mapmaker John Crane Dower, 1791-1847. Dower worked with many prominent middle to late 19th century London map publishers including Weller, Cassell, Bacon, Petermann, and others. He was elected to the Royal Geographical Society in 1854.