Monument to Major-General William Roy. Milton Head, Carluke, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe.
Major-General William Roy FRS, AS (1726–1790) 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. It was Roy's advocacy and leadership that led to the creation of the Ordnance Survey in 1791, the year after his death. His technical work in the establishment of a surveying baseline won him the Copley Medal in 1785. His maps and drawings of Roman archaeological sites in Scotland were the first accurate and systematic study of the subject, and have not been improved upon even today. Roy was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London. The monument is in the form of an Ordnance Survey trig point with the number S8761. The inscription reads:- HERE STOOD MILTON HEAD THE BIRTHPLACE OF MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM ROY 1726 - 1790 FROM WHOSE MILITARY MAP OF SCOTLAND MADE IN 1747-1755 GREW THE ORDNANCE SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN.
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Location: Milton Head, Carluke, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe.
Photo credit: © Stan Pritchard / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: birthplace, carluke, general, head, lanarkshire, major, major-general, map, military, milton, miltonhead, ordnance, point, roy, scotland, survey, trig, william
