John Senex (1678-1740) was one of the leading cartographers of his time. After Senex’s death, James Ferguson acquired his copper plates for the gores (the flat printed maps that can then be shaped to fit a globe) at auction. The plates then passed to Benjamin Martin and subsequently to Dudley Adams who published a new edition of Senex’s globes in 1793.



A comparable pair of globes, formerly the property of the Earl of Hardwicke of Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, are now in the collection at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.



The carved mahogany stands were added to these globes some fifteen years later when they were in the possession of the 1st Viscount Hampden.



A Dudley Adams terrestrial globe with Senex gores circa 1740 and updated by Adams in 1793 is in the collection of All Souls College, Oxford.