Arrowsmith Family
1750-c.1880, British Cartographers and Publishers
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Originally from Durham, Aaron Arrowsmith, worked as a surveyor for John Cary when he first came to London around 1770. He carried out numerous road surveys for Cary, many of which appeared in Cary's 'Travelers Companion' in 1790. He set up his own business that same year in Long Acre and gained an international reputation very quickly as a specialist in maps recording the latest information and discoveries from all parts of the world.
When he died the business was passed on to Aaron and Samuel, his sons, and yet later to his nephew John (1790-1873) who maintained the Arrowsmith legacy into the latter part of the nineteenth century. He was one of the founder members of the Royal Geographical Society. Over the years many great names were associated with the Arrowsmith Company, including George Frederick Crutchley, Sidney Hall and Samuel Lewis.
