Moses Glover (born in

Dunstable Dunstable ( ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, east of the Chiltern Hills, north of London. There are several steep chalk escarpments, most noticeable when approaching Dunstable from the ...

in 1601, fl. 1620-1640), was an English cartographer. He described himself as "paynter And Architectur", although very little is known about him apart from his maps and the church records.
Moses Glover. Mapmaker
'. The Twickenham Museum. Glover's marriage licence, issued in 1622, described him as "painter-stainer of

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". In 1635 he created a survey map of Isleworth Hundred for

Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, 4th Baron Percy, KG, JP (29 September 160213 October 1668) was an English aristocrat, and supporter of the Parliamentary cause in the First English Civil War. The Percies had been the leading famil ...

. It is preserved at the

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in London.

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considered Glover to be an architect equal to Thomas Holt, Huntingdon Smithson and Rudolph Symonds. According to Walpole, Glover was associate to Gerard Christmas in building the

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, and was "much employed at Sion House by Henry, Earl of Northumberland". Walpole dated Glover's work at Sion 1604–1615. Edwin Beresford Chancellor questioned Glover's role as an architect ("Another so-called architect of this period, who seems to have added painting to his other accomplishment...").

John Summerson Sir John Newenham Summerson (25 November 1904 – 10 November 1992) was one of the leading British architectural historians of the 20th century. Early life John Summerson was born at Barnstead, Coniscliffe Road, Darlington. His grandfather wo ...

wrote that the opinion of early 19th century authors was merely a "suggestion" influenced by Glover's map and survey.Summerson, John (1983).
Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830
'. Penguin Books. . p. 569.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Glover, Moses English cartographers 17th-century English painters English male painters 1601 births Year of death unknown 17th-century cartographers