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and the mapping of bogs. Irish Bogs Commission was active in the period 1809 to 1814, and under an Act from 1774 there was funding for county maps from grand juries; Edgeworth reported on issues of bog drainage and reclamation. His 1813 map of
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Historian's Guide to Early British Maps: A Guide to the Location of Pre-1900 Maps of the British Isles Preserved in the United Kingdom and Ireland
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and his third wife Elizabeth, making him one of a very large Anglo-Irish family, including the novelist
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wrote, as illustration of economic doctrine, about a "money pump" devised by Edgeworth.
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A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500–1830
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The Strutts and the Arkwrights, 1758–1830: A Study of the Early Factory System
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who became a close friend, gave William Edgeworth introductions to
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Edgeworth's surveying work in Ireland included soundings in the
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Edgeworth, Richard Lovell; Edgeworth, Maria (7 December 1820).
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with Richard Griffith. He worked also with William Hampton and
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Edgeworth died, unmarried, at Edgeworthstown, 21 April 1829.
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road. Henry Habberly Price engaged him to do a survey of the
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Howard, Joseph Jackson; Crisp, Frederick Arthur (1973).
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Oliver, Grace A. (Grace Atkinson) (7 December 1882).
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R. S. Fitton; Alfred P. Wadsworth (1 November 1968).
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Oxford University Press. 411:William Edgeworth; Richard Griffith (1817). 681: 632: 617:The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy 607: 389:The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy 455:"Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, esq" 726:Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer 85:was noted, and was followed by a map of 63: 539:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 158:), done in fact two years before that. 99:, a connection of his father's through 774: 568: 364:The Fourth Report of the Commissioners 205: 203: 201: 199: 161:Edgeworth was elected a member of the 719: 584:Durham County Record Office Catalogue 111:. He paid a visit to Lee's mills in 688:. Genealogical Publishing Company. 645:. Blackwell Scientific. p. 421 639:Royal Astronomical Society (1829). 536:Mason, J. J. 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Index

Richard Lovell Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth
Edgeworthstown
Church of Ireland
Collon
County Louth
Daniel Augustus Beaufort

Collon
River Inny
County Longford
County Roscommon
John Brinkley
William Strutt
Lunar Society
Peter Ewart
George Augustus Lee
Manchester
Alexander Nimmo
County Galway
County Waterford
Glengariff
River Tees
Tees Navigation Company
Stockton & Darlington Railway
William Bald
Armagh
Newry
Institution of Civil Engineers
Royal Irish Academy

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