Jean Palairet
Jean Palairet (1697–1774) was a teacher and a French cartographer.
Life
Jean Palairet was born in Montauban, Languedoc, but emigrated to England.[1] He worked as an agent in London for the French States General, and taught French to the children of George II: Prince William, afterwards Duke of Cumberland, and the Princesses Mary and Louisa.[2]
His correspondence with Count Bentinck in 1750, 1758, and 1761, in French, is among the Egerton MSS. in the British Museum, Nos. 1727 and 1746. A letter from him to the Duke of Newcastle in 1757 is in Additional MS. 32871, f. 331.[3]
While working as London agent for Jacob Boreel Jansz, Palairet apparently played a part in introducing the game of cricket to the Netherlands: in 1765 he sent four balls and 12 bats to the Netherlands, and attempted to find a copy of a rule-book for the game.[4]
Не had been twice married, and left two sons : Elias John and David, and three daughters.[3]
He died in the parish of St James's Westminster in 1774.[3] · [5]
- Cartograms published by Jean Palairet
The world; Africa.
Scotland; France.
North America.
Works
- Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre à bien lire, et à bien orthographier, 1727
- A short treatise on the arts and sciences, in French and English, 1736
- A new Royal French grammar containing rules for the pronouncing and writing of the French tongue, 1738
- Nouvelle introduction à la géographie moderne, 1754
- Atlas méthodique composé pour l'usage de son altesse sérénissime monseigneur le prince d'Orange et de Nassau, Stadhouder des Sept Provinces-Unies, 1755
- Carte des Possessions Angloises et Françoises d'Amérique septentrionale, 1755
- A concise description of the English and French possessions in North-America for the better explaining of the map published with that title, 1755
See also
References
- ↑ J. Eugene Horvath (2001). A Canadian collection of Hungarica. J.E. Horvath. p. 115. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
- ↑ Royal Scottish Geographical Society; Donald Grant Moir; Harry R. G. Inglis (1973). The early maps of Scotland to 1850. Royal Scottish Geographical Society. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-904049-00-8. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
- 1 2 3 Gordon Goodwin, "Palairet, John", Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 43, 1895
- ↑ Cricket on Beeckestijn, 6 June 2009. Accessed 13 January 2013.
- ↑ "Palairet, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21152. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)