Daniel Lizars

Daniel Lizars Jr. (1793–1875) was a 19th-century Scottish engraver, map-maker and publisher.

Life

He was born in May 1793 in Edinburgh the son of Daniel Lizars Sr. (1754–1812) and his wife, Margaret Home. The family lived at the "Backstairs" on Parliament Close in Edinburgh, off the Royal Mile. His house was destroyed in the Great Fire of Edinburgh in 1824.

He was apprenticed as a printer in his father's firm alongside George Bartholomew, patriarch of the Bartholomew map-making dynasty.

On his father's death (1812), aged only 19, he took over the family business. He expanded and began specialising in mapmaking.

In the 1830s, he was living at 9 South St David Street (and working at 5) located between Princes Street and St Andrews Square.

In 1832 his company went bankrupt. He emigrated to Canada with his wife and family (including his widowed mother) and settled in Colborne Township on Lake Huron.

Family He married Rabina Hutchison in Renfrew in 1818.

His brothers included John Lizars, William Home Lizars and his sister Jane Home Lizars later married Sir William Jardine. His daughter Helen Hutchison Lizars is thought to have married the son of John Galt, who was a near neighbour in Canada.