JOHN

See also:

• JOHN BARTHOLOMEW (1831-1893)
• BARTHOLOMEW, SAINT

BARTHOLOMEW (1831-1893)  , Scottish cartographer, was born at Edinburgh on the 25th of December 1831 . His father had a cartographical establishment there and he was educated in the work . He was subsequently assistant to the German geographer August Petermann, until in 1856 he took up the management of his father's firm . For this establishment, now known as the Edinburgh Geographical Institute, Bartholomew built up a reputation unsurpassed in Great Britain for the production of the finest cartographical work . Among his numerous publications mention may be specially made of the series of maps of Great Britain reduced from the Ordnance Survey to scales of z in. and h in. to 1 m., with relief shown by contours and a systematic scale of colours . The in. series, which was extended (and its principles applied to many other works) by Mr J . G . Bartholomew, who succeeded his father in the business, is the finest of its kind ever produced . John Bartholomew died in London on the 29th of March 1893 .