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7 unusual facts about John Ogilby


1600 in poetry

November – John Ogilby (died 1676), Scottish translator, impresario and cartographer

1676 in poetry

John Ogilby (born 1600), Scottish translator, impresario and cartographer

Dirk Stoop

He was also an engraver and among his productions during a stay in England in 1651 were the plates for the first part of John Ogilby’s Aesop’s Fables and the series of “12 horses” now in the collection of the British Museum.

James Shirley

He "was a drudge" for John Ogilby in his translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and survived into the reign of Charles II, but, though some of his comedies were revived, he did not again attempt to write for the stage.

Three or four of his plays were produced by his friend John Ogilby in Dublin in the Werburgh Street Theatre, the first ever built in Ireland and at the time of Shirley's visit only one year old.

Liphook

The map of 1675 by John Ogilby shows this road bypassing Bramshott and going through Lippock, however the quality of this road was very poor.

Lockwood Folly River

The river name appears on a John Ogilby map from 1671, making Lockwood's Folly River one of the oldest named rivers in North Carolina.



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