William Caulfield. Major British Army. Inspector of Roads 1732-1767
Grandson of William Caulfield, 1st Viscount Charlemont. Following the departure of General Wade in 1740, became responsible for directing the Scottish military roads initiative, further construction of new roads and bridges as well as upgrading. He was responsible for much more road construction than his predecessor: about 900 miles of road and 600 bridges. Road building was a completely separate enterprise from the Military Survey, and indeed competed with it for staff and funding.
During the '45 uprising Caulfield was quartermaster to Sir John Cope. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1751, but was always known as 'major' or 'governor'. The house he built outside Inverness still exists.
During the period of the Military Survey, there are many references in minutes of commissioners of supply, to Col David Watson, his assistant, Mr. Roy and the Military Survey. In 1747, the year in which the Military Survey was launched, Caulfield's road-building expenditure had reached a record £9,500; there followed a reorganisation in which many more assistants were allocated to Caulfield, no doubt thereby denying them to Watson and Roy.