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Alexander Keith (Keith) Johnston

1804–71

Geographer and cartographer. Published numerous atlases and maps. Published the first English atlas of physical geography, 1848. Constructed the first globe of physical geography for the Great Exhibition, 1851.

Source

ODNB

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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