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Major-General William Roy FRS FSA FRSE (4 May 1726 – 1 July 1790) 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.
Overview. Born. May 24, 1928 · Detroit, Michigan, USA. Died. September 2, 2003 · West Palm Beach, Florida, USA (respiratory failure) Nickname. Billy. Mini Bio. Not a well remembered child film actor, William Roy is better remembered as a pianist, accompanist, songwriter, singer and musical director.
- May 24, 1928
- September 2, 2003
Sept. 6, 2003. William Roy, a pianist, songwriter, singer, musical director and actor, died on Tuesday in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 75. The cause was respiratory failure after a series of...
William Roy was a prolific and versatile composer, lyricist and musician who worked with many Broadway and cabaret stars. He wrote the score for Maggie, New Faces of 1962 and The Penny Friend, and accompanied Julie Wilson in her songbooks and revues.
Learn about William Roy, the surveyor who mapped Scotland for the Duke of Cumberland after the Jacobite Rebellion. Explore the background, methods, and legacy of the Roy Military Survey, the first comprehensive topographic map of Scotland.
Introduction. The Roy Military Survey of Scotland, known to its contemporaries as the 'Great Map', is a uniquely important historical cartographic document. It provides a uniform graphic snapshot of the entire Scottish mainland at a time when the landscape was beginning an era of rapid change.
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William Roy: still an enigmatic figure in Scots cartography. General William Roy 1726–1790: father of the Ordnance Survey, by Humphrey Welfare, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Press, 2022, 303 pp. + xiv, £90.00, ISBN 978-1-3995-0578-9 (hardback), 978-1-3995-0581-9 (epub)
