Daniel Paterson

Daniel Paterson (c. 1739–1825) was a British Army officer and cartographer, known for his books of road maps.

Paterson was gazetted an ensign in the 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot on 13 December 1765, promoted to a lieutenant on 8 May 1772, and to a captaincy on 11 July 1783.

On 31 December 1812 he was made Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, a sinecure, and held the appointment for the rest of his life.

[3] The work was dedicated to George Morrison, the Quartermaster-General to the Forces, and became well known in the British Army, for its official distances of military marches.

[1] Edward Mogg brought out a 16th edition of Paterson's "Roads" under the impression that the author was dead, in 1822.