Campbell, Eila Muriel Joice (1915–1994), university teacher and historian of cartography, was born on 31 December 1915 at Ropley, Hampshire, the eldest child of Walter Howard Claude Campbell (1894–1958), poultry farmer, and his wife, Lillian Muriel, née Locke (1884–1979). After military service Walter Campbell...
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Anita McConnell
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M. J. Wise
Cole, Monica Mary (1922–1994), geographer, was born on 5 May 1922 at 70 North Side, Clapham Common, London, the elder daughter of William Henry Parnall Cole (1887–1969), bank clerk, and his wife, Dorothy Mary Thomas (1887–1965). She was educated at Wimbledon county grammar school...
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Maria Eleanor Vere Cust (1862/33–1958) by Maull & Fox, 1917 The Royal Geographical Society, London
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Elizabeth Baigent
Cust, Maria Eleanor Vere (1862/3–1958), first woman fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, was the second daughter of Robert Needham Cust (1821–1909), orientalist, and his first wife, Maria Adelaide Hobart (d. 1864), daughter of Henry Lewis Hobart, dean of Windsor. Miss Cust...
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Avril M. C. Maddrell
Garnett [married name Crow], Alice (1903–1989), geographer, was born at 83 Cicada Road, Wandsworth, London, on 15 May 1903, the daughter of George Garnett, publisher's clerk and later company secretary, and his wife, Alice, née Brooks. After studying geography at University College, London...
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Gelling [née Midgley], Margaret Joy (1924–2009), place-names scholar, was born on 29 November 1924 at 23 Hemmons Road, Gorton, Manchester, the only daughter and youngest of three children of William Albert Midgley, hardware buyer, and his wife, Lucy, née Wallace. The family moved to ...
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Brian Whalley
Grove [née Clark], Jean Mary (1927–2001), geographer, was born on 10 March 1927 at 175 Waldegrave Road, Teddington, Middlesex, the elder daughter of Leslie Marshall Clark and his wife, Mary, née Johnson. Mary Clark was a very important influence on both her daughters, ...
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Trevor Barnes
Massey, Doreen Barbara (1944–2016), geographer, was born on 3 January 1944 in Withington Hospital, 20 Nell Lane, Withington, Manchester, the elder daughter of Jack Massey (1910–1996), then a fireman with the Auxiliary Fire Service, later groundsman for the Northern Lawn Tennis Club...
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Middleton [née Butler], Dorothy (1909–1999), geographer and writer, was born on 9 November 1909 in Lahore, Punjab, daughter of Sir Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler (1873–1952), who had a distinguished career in the Indian Civil Service, and Anne Gertrude (1876–1954), daughter of George Smith...
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Lucy Adrian
Mitchell, Jean Brown (1904–1990), geographer, was born on 26 July 1904 at 396 Lower Broughton Road, Manchester, the elder of the two daughters (a son died in infancy) of James Mitchell (1866–1908), a veterinary surgeon, and his wife, Margaret Brodie Cowan (1877–1911). After six years at ...
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Newbigin, Marion Isabel (1869–1934), geographer and biologist, was born in Alnwick, Northumberland, one of five daughters and three sons in the family of James Lesslie Newbigin, pharmacist. Her sister Maude was lecturer in history and deputy principal of the Day Training College, Portsmouth...
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Avril M. C. Maddrell
Ormsby [née Rodwell Jones], Hilda (1877–1973), geographer, was born on 1 November 1877 at 44 Charles Street, Hanley, Staffordshire, one of the large family of the Revd W. Rodwell Jones (1834–1914), a Welsh Wesleyan Methodist minister, and Sarah Ann Cuthbertson. There is no known record of her early life, but the family is known to have moved seven times by the time ...
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Taylor, Eva Germaine Rimington (1879–1966), geographer and historian of science, was born at Southwood Lane, Highgate, Middlesex, on 22 June 1879, the third child and second daughter of Charles Richard Taylor, a solicitor, and his first wife, Emily Jane Nelson. Her mother ran away when ...
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Wallis, Helen Margaret (1924–1995), map librarian and historian of cartography, was born on 17 August 1924 at Dunkery, Park Road, Barnet, Hertfordshire, the daughter of Leonard Francis Wallis (1880–1965), a headmaster, and his wife, Mary McCulloch Jones (1884–1957), a teacher. She had a twin brother. After attending ...
