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Thomas Harrison (c. 1823–1894) was the first Government Surveyor of Jamaica. His maps have become an important historical resource for the island. His maps have become an important historical resource for the island.
Edward McGeachy (died c. 1851) was the Crown Surveyor for the county of Surrey in Jamaica. He trained Thomas Harrison , the first Government Surveyor of Jamaica. He owned Bull Park plantation and Brighton Pen in Saint David Parish and in 1837 received compensation for the loss of eight slaves following the abolition of slavery in the British ...
The Act for Regulating Surveyors of 1683 was a law of the Colony of Jamaica that provided that the Crown surveyor was to be responsible for surveys in Jamaica only when the Crown was a party to the relevant matter and that otherwise, any person may make a survey. It was revised by An Act For Further Directing and Regulating the Proceedings of ...
He moved to Jamaica in 1778/9 and leased out cattle to plantation owners. He made maps from at least 1791. In 1796 he successfully lobbied the House of Assembly to commission him for three years to map the entire island. He completed his one inch to a mile series of maps in November 1799 and was further commissioned to create more detailed maps ...
Donald Burns Sangster was born in Black River in the parish of St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. His father William B. Sangster was a land surveyor and a planter. His mother's name is Cassandra Sangster (née Plummer). [2] Sangster attended the prestigious Munro College in St. Elizabeth. [3]
The Cartography of Jamaica is the history of surveying and creation of maps of Jamaica. A list of maps of Jamaica in chronological order is shown below. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
Training as a chartered surveyor and working as a land surveyor in Jamaica for 9 years, he became a planning officer in South Wales and then was Head of Countryside Services in Northamptonshire for 25 years, developing the Pocket Parks initiative in 1984 which was subsequently supported nationally by the Countryside Commission.
She attended elementary school at Claremont Primary School and then went to both Carvalho’s High School and Ardenne High School in Jamaica. [1] Having completed her secondary education, she worked from 1956 to 1958 as an Assistant Land Surveyor in the Survey Department, when she won a government scholarship to further her education. [1]