A Family Affair: The Dundas Family of Arniston and the Military Survey of Scotland (1747–1755).

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    • Subject Terms:
      UNITED Kingdom; SCOTLAND
    • Subject Terms:
      GREAT Britain. Ordnance Survey
    • Subject Terms:
      DUNDASS family
    • Abstract:
      This paper is the result of extensive investigation of the archives of the Dundas family of Arniston, Midlothian. It uncovers significant roles played in the organization of David Watson and William Roy's Military Survey of Scotland (1747–1755) by successive generations of the Dundases and suggests that the introduction of Watson, an established military engineer, to the young civilian Roy, was facilitated by that family. The Dundases' patronage of the Military Survey encourages us to understand the project as a private-public partnership and supports contentions that Enlightenment mapping resulted from complex social networks straddling military and civilian life. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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