William Smith, an English surveyor, is generally credited with initiating modern geologic mapmaking in 1815.

Robert Kearsley Dawson (1798 - 28 March 1861) was an English surveyor and cartographer.

Thomas Mainwaring Penson (1818-64) was an English surveyor and architect.

William John Wills (1834-1861) was an English surveyor who became one of the first explorers to cross Australia from the south to the north.

Thomas Brown (1772 - 30 January 1850) was an English surveyor, civil engineer, businessman and landowner.

John Eveleigh was an English surveyor and architect in Bath.

Thomas Baldwin (c.1750 - 7 March 1820) was an English surveyor and architect in Bath.

Richard Cowling Taylor (1789-1851) was an English surveyor and geologist.

Charles Harcourt Masters (born 1759) was an English surveyor and architect in Bath.

The house was built around 1640 by Richard Sparrow, an English surveyor who arrived in Plymouth in 1636.