This HTML5 document contains 15 embedded RDF statements represented using HTML+Microdata notation.

The embedded RDF content will be recognized by any processor of HTML5 Microdata.

PrefixNamespace IRI
dbpedia-owlhttp://dbpedia.org/ontology/
foafhttp://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
dchttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
rdfshttp://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#
rdfhttp://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
xsdhhttp://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#
dbpediahttp://dbpedia.org/resource/
Subject Item
dbpedia:William_Roy
rdfs:comment
Major-General William Roy FRS, AS (1726–1790) was a Scottish military engineer, surveyor, and antiquarian. He was an innovator who applied new scientific discoveries and newly emerging technologies to the accurate geodetic mapping of Great Britain.It was Roy's advocacy and leadership that led to the creation of the Ordnance Survey in 1791, the year after his death. His technical work in the establishment of a surveying baseline won him the Copley Medal in 1785.
foaf:name
William Roy Roy, William
dc:description
British Army general
dbpedia-owl:award
dbpedia:Copley_Medal
dbpedia-owl:birthDate
1726-05-04Z
dbpedia-owl:birthPlace
dbpedia:Scotland dbpedia:Carluke
dbpedia-owl:birthYear
1726-01-01Z
dbpedia-owl:deathDate
1790-07-01Z
dbpedia-owl:deathPlace
dbpedia:England dbpedia:London
dbpedia-owl:deathYear
1790-01-01Z
dbpedia-owl:field
dbpedia:Surveying
dbpedia-owl:nationality
dbpedia:Kingdom_of_Great_Britain