Phyllis Pearsall, English painter, cartographer, and author (died 1996)

Phyllis Pearsall

British cartographer and typographer

Phyllis Isobella Pearsall MBE was a British painter and writer who founded the Geographers' A-Z Map Company, for which she is regarded as one of the most successful business people of the twentieth century. She has erroneously been credited with creating London's first popular…