| LC control no. | n 80037049 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Rocque, John, -1762 |
| Variant(s) | Rocque, Jean, d. 1762 Rocque, John, d. 1762 Rocque, Jean, -1762 |
| Located | London (England) Soho (London, England) London (England) Charing Cross (London, England) Piccadilly (London, England) Strand, The (London, England) Whitehall (London, England) |
| Birth date | 1704? |
| Death date | 1762-01-27 |
| Place of birth | France |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Map publishing Gardens--Design |
| Profession or occupation | Publishers and publishing Engravers Cartographers Surveyors Map publisher Topographer |
| Found in | His Rocque's traveller's assistant ... 1763. Carte du havre de Chibucto avec le plan de la ville de Halifax sur la coste de l'Accadia ou Nova Scotia latitude 44° 31': map recto (Publiée par hautorité par Jean Rocque, Charing Cross; Publish'd by authority of John Rocque at Charing Cross) Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers, 2001 (Rocque, John [Jean], c. 1704-1762; Huguenot land surveyor [of gentlemen's estates], engraver, printseller, publisher and garden designer probably born in Geneva; brought to London as a child; published plans and views of gardens, mostly around London; survey of London metropolis took 9 years to complete; in 1750 his Charing Cross premises burned down and stock destroyed; appointed topographer to the Prince of Wales and to King George II) Oxford dictionary of national biography, via WWW, May 2, 2014 (Rocque, John (1704?-1762), land surveyor and cartographer; 'dessinateur des jardins', publishing elaborate plans of gardens; born in France, one of four children of a Huguenot family which settled in Geneva after fleeing France; probably arrived in England in 1709, though his life before his publishing career began in 1734 is obscure; lived in Great Windmill Street on the edge of the French quarter in Soho until 1743, in Piccadilly opposite Green Park until 1749, and in Whitehall until a fire on 7 November 1750 destroyed his possessions; after purchasing new stock in Paris he re-established his business in 1751 in the Strand, at the centre of the London map trade, where he remained at three successive addresses until his death on 27 January 1762; his widow, Mary Ann, carried on the business with the assistance of her late husband's associates) |
| Associated language | eng fre |
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