Bartholomew – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Thu, 02 Jul 2020 13:10:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Bartholomew – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 John G. Bartholomew, 100 Years After His Death https://www.maproomblog.com/2020/07/john-g-bartholomew-100-years-after-his-death/ Thu, 02 Jul 2020 13:09:59 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1788951 More]]> John G. BartholomewA short piece in the Edinburgh Evening News last April noted the 100th anniversary of the death of John G. Bartholomew (1860-1920), the fourth of six generations of mapmaking Bartholomews; their firm, John Bartholomew and Son, was responsible for the Times atlases before they were taken up by HarperCollins.

Speaking of his ancestor’s legacy, great-grandson, John Eric Bartholomew, told the Evening News that the fact John George Bartholomew is recognised as the man credited with being the first to put the name Antarctica on the map remains a great source of pride.

Little known is that, in 1886, Bartholomew had a brief flirtation with considering the name “Antipodea” for oceanographer John Murray’s map depicting the continent, before settling for Antarctica.

More about John G. Bartholomew at the Bartholomew family’s website and the NLS’s Bartholomew Archive. [WMS]

Previously: Robert G. Bartholomew, 1927-2017.

]]> 1788951 Robert G. Bartholomew, 1927-2017 https://www.maproomblog.com/2017/10/robert-g-bartholomew-1927-2017/ Mon, 23 Oct 2017 13:00:43 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=5366 More]]> I’ve belatedly heard the news that Robert G. Bartholomew died last April in Edinburgh at the age of 90. Robert and his older brothers John and Peter, who died in 2008 and 1987, respectively, were the last of six generations of Bartholomews working for the eponymous family mapmaking firm, John Bartholomew and Son, that was, among other things, responsible for the Times series of atlases before being subsumed into the HarperCollins publishing empire. Robert served as production manager, John as director and Peter as chairman. See the NLS’s Bartholomew Archive and the family’s website for more on the firm’s and the family’s history. [WMS]

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