Arrowsmith, AARON, born at Winston, Durham, in 1750, at the age of twenty came up to London, and by 1790 had established a great map-making business, his chief productions being maps of the World, North America, Scotland, and Southern India. He died 23d April 1823.—His nephew, JOHN (1790-1873), was also an eminent cartographer.
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