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   Cary
   John
   J. C. ;
   
   
   1754 (not 1755 as sometimes quoted) in Corsley
   1835
   London
   maltster George Cary (17xx-1xxx)
   at least 3 brothers ; Mary (17xx-1799) (mother) ;
   apprenticeship as an engraver in London, before setting up his own business in the Strand in 1783
   United Kingdom
   George Henry Millar ; (The New and Correct English Atlas (1787)) ; Cary's traveller's companion (1810) ; Cary's New Itinerary (1817) ;
   Britain's Postmaster General (commission to survey England's roads, 1794) ; Ordnance Survey (maps prior to 1805).
   engraver William (brother) ; geologist -> William Smith ; G. F. Cruchley (1822-1875) ? ;
   geographical drawing and copperplate engraving ; map-making, 3D globe-making ;
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carymap.jpg ; https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/nvune1i ;
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cary for a listing of his major maps ;
   Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; Herbert George Fordham: J. C.-Engraver, Map, Chart & Print-seller, & Globe-Maker (Foldeston 1976) ; David Smith in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004 ;
   Active in London, engraving business in the Strand since 1783, later taken over by ->G. F. Cruchley (1822–1875). See also: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-37265;jsessionid=111D69DACBC12469D1D61D095136E0C5.
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