John Rocque

John Roque was a Huguenot living in London; a skilled map engraver who flourished from 1734 to 1762.

He lived first at 'ye Canister and Sugar Loaf' in Great Windmill Street, St. James's, then at Hyde Park Corner, and later back in the Strand, Charing Cross area.

He executed a set of county maps, mostly with hatching round each county boundary, sometimes with coats-of-arms or other embellishments.

His greatest undertaking and achievement was his magnificent survey of London, drawn upon a scale of twenty-six inches to one mile, engraved by Pine from 1737 to the year of issue, 1746, and published in twenty-four sheets.

He also produced very fine large scale maps, each in several sheets, of the counties of Surrey, Middlesex, Berkshire and Shropshire.