Michael Atwell Slater

Michael Atwell Slater (died 2 February 1842) was a Royal Navy Officer and hydrographic surveyor particularly noted for his survey work in the north-east of England and the east of Scotland.

[1][2] Michael Slater entered the Royal Navy in 1811, and in 1816 was surveying in the Mediterranean as an assistant to William Henry Smyth.

He started working in Great Britain in 1829, surveying the coasts of Durham, Northumberland and eastern Scotland.

In 1839 Slater gave evidence to a Parliamentary committee considering improvements to the Caledonian Canal.

He described the hazards in the approach to the canal through the Moray Firth and the Kessock Narrows, and made recommendations for the location of buoys and lights.

Michael Atwell Slater as a boy, drawn by his brother, Joseph Slater Jr.
Slater's chart of the River Tay, surveyed in 1833
Monument to Slater (Slater's Loup) near Holborn Head. Watercolour by Otter, Slater's successor