Thomas Jefferys

Example of Jefferys' work. The eastern part of Siberia as depicted by the Second Kamchatka Expedition.

Thomas Jefferys (c. 1719 – 1771), "Geographer to King George III", was an English cartographer who was the leading map supplier of his day.[1] 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.[2]

  1. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004.
  2. ^ 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.