Benjamin Cole (instrument maker)

Benjamin Cole (1695–1766) was an English surveyor, cartographer, instrument maker, engraver and bookbinder living in Oxford.

Cole drew up the ward maps for the first edition of the historian and topographer William Maitland's (c.1693–1757) posthumous History of London from Its Foundation to the Present Time (1769).

His music engravings included a collection by John Frederick Lampe with a setting of the Entered Apprentice's Song.

[3] In 1728/9, he published a copy of the Old Charges with speeches by two Freemasons, Francis Drake and architect Edward Oakley.

Cole & Son conducted their business between 1751 and 1766 from the Orrery adjoining the Globe Tavern, in Fleet Street, London.