William Roy

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Scottish military engineer, surveyor and antiquarian (1726-1790)

ScientistsLived 1726 to 1790 · aged 64

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Major-General William Roy was a Scottish military engineer, surveyor, and antiquarian. He was an innovator who applied new scientific discoveries and newly emerging technologies to the accurate geodetic mapping of Great Britain. His masterpiece is usually referred to as Roy's Map of Scotland.

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William Roy monument, Carluke

Detail (Pollokshaws, now in Glasgow) from a map in Roy's Military Survey of Scotland.[14]

Blue plaque at Roy's London home, 10 Argyll Street.

Cannon in Roy Grove, Hampton marking the Hampton end of the first baseline of the triangulation of Great Britain

Cannon near Heathrow Airport Northern Perimeter Road, marking the northern end of the baseline

The proposed triangulation mesh of the Anglo-French survey 1784-1790.[30] For the actual mesh used see File:Anglo-French survey of 1784-1790.jpg

Rough Castle, on the Antonine Wall, drawn by William Roy in 1755.

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Fellow of the Royal Society

Copley Medal

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries

Scientists born in the 1720s 6

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William Roy

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