Life
?1552-1629; English cartographer whose maps of Ireland, printed in Theatre
of the Empire of Great Britain (1611), remained in use until superseded
by William Petty’s Hiberniae Delineatio in 1685. His Theatre
and its continuation, The History of Great Britain (1611), are
similar in plan to William Camden’s Britannia (1586); his
map of Dublin (1610) is the earliest extant plan of that city; Speed’s
‘Plan of Dublin’ (1610) [after Pool and Cast] appears on the
cover of the Dublin Historical Record, publ. by the Old Dublin
Society. ODNB
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Notes
John Betts, The Story of the Irish Society [Centenary 1913] ([2nd
edn.] 1921), contains four plate of ‘Irish Gentleman’, ‘Irish
Gentlewoman’, ‘Wilde Irish Man’, and ‘Wilde Irish
Woman’, as p.10 facing; taken from Speed’s Map of Ireland (1609),
a copy of the original being in possession of the Society, Londonderry;
the same as ‘Gentleman of Ireland’, ‘Gentlewoman of Ireland’,
‘Wilde Irish Man’ & ‘Wilde Irish Woman’ are printed
in G. C. Duggan, The Stage Irishman (Dublin: Talbot 1937), facing
p.220.
His New Map of the Province of Ulster, 1610, from The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (1612), engraved in workshop of his Dutch collaborator Jodacus Hondius; remained authoritative up the new maps of William Petty’s Irish Atlas (1685).
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