Sir George Samuel Measom (3 December 1818 – 1 March 1901) was a British engraver and publisher who compiled guides to railway travel in Great Britain in the mid-19th century. In later life he became involved in charitable works, and was knighted in 1891.
Biography
Measom was born in
Blackheath,
Kent, the son of Daniel Measom, a carver and gilder.[1]
In 1842, he married Sarah Hillman. During the 1840s, he developed his skills as an
engraver and in 1849 published The Bible: its Elevating Influence on Man, a moral tale in illustrated form.[2] From the 1850s onwards much of Measom's work related to descriptions of railways; first railway work was the 1852 Illustrated Guide to the Great Western Railway. His railway works described the railways from the practical standpoint of a traveller, and all publications after the first took a title of the form The Official Illustrated Guide to ... . By 1867 his book covered the entire British network.[3]
Sarah died in 1867, after which he remarried to Charlotte Simpson.[4]