Thomas Kitchin

Thomas Kitchin (1719-84) was an engraver and cartographer, originally from Southwark. He was apprenticed to Emanuel Bowen in 1732 and later became his son-in-law. He worked with Bowen on the Large English Atlas (1749-60), which was the most important series of county maps completed since Elizabethan times and the first to cover the entire country on such a large scale. Kitchin’s map of North America (1755) would remain the standard map used for the rest of the century. He produced some 170 maps during his career for the London Magazine. Like Bowen, Kitchin was active in the Baptist chapel in the Barbican. His second wife, Jane Burroughs, was the daughter of the Baptist minister Joseph Burroughs.