Category:William Roy
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English: Major-General William Roy FRS (4 May 1726 – 1 July 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.
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- 1726 births
- 1790 deaths
- Generals of the United Kingdom
- Scottish cartographers
- Scottish geographers
- Scottish non-fiction writers
- Scottish soldiers
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
- Recipients of the Copley Medal
- People from Carluke
- Scottish antiquarians
- Scottish engineers
- Scottish surveyors
- 18th-century Scottish people
- British military engineers
