J. Parsons
Parsons was an
hydrographer for the British Admiralty in the 19th century. He did a
great deal of field work in the West Indies. He made surverys in the
St. Vincent Grenadines in 1859-1861. He completed his chart of the
Windward Isles in 1861, and made a plan of Admiralty Bay in Bequia in
1862.
John Ogilby
Ogilvy (John Ogilby) (1600-1676) began
as a dancing master and finished as Cosmographer Royal. His map of
Jamaica which appears on two stamps, would have been published in his
geographical and historical account of America issued in 1670.
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