Adair, John (1660–1718), geographer and cartographer, was born on 2 September 1660 in Leith, Scotland. Nothing is known of his parents or his early education. The first firm reference to Adair dates from May 1681, when he was granted a licence by the ...
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Adair, John (1660–1718), geographer and cartographer
Charles W. J. Withers
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Ainsworth, William Francis (1807–1896), geographer and geologist
Elizabeth Baigent
Ainsworth, William Francis (1807–1896), geographer and geologist, was born in Exeter, where he was baptized at St David’s on 6 November 1807 (some sources state that he was born on the previous day), the third son of John Ainsworth (1771–1849) of ...
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Allan, George (1736–1800), antiquary and topographer
C. M. Fraser
Allan, George (1736–1800), antiquary and topographer, was born on 7 June 1736 in Darlington, co. Durham, the eldest son of James Allan (1712–1790) and Elizabeth Pemberton (1710–1756). His father, ‘Auld Jem’, fourth son of Nicholas Allan of Staindrop, had trained as an attorney, and in 1738 was appointed bailiff of ...
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Allen, Thomas (1803–1833), topographer
Elizabeth Baigent
Allen, Thomas (1803–1833), topographer, son of J. Allen, map engraver, was probably born in London. In 1827 he published The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Lambeth and the Archiepiscopal Palace, with illustrations, chiefly drawn and etched by himself. He afterwards published: ...
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Armstrong, Terence Edward (1920–1996), polar scholar
Peter Speak
Armstrong, Terence Edward (1920–1996), polar scholar, was born on 7 April 1920 at Oxted, Surrey, the youngest of four sons in the family of six children of Thomas Mandeville Emerson Armstrong (1869–1922), director of the Commercial Union Insurance Company, and his wife, Jean Crawford Young (1881–1945)...
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Aston, Michael Antony (1946–2013)
Maker: Mark Thomas
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Aston, Michael Antony [Mick] (1946–2013), geographer and archaeologist
Christopher Dyer
Aston, Michael Antony [Mick] (1946–2013), geographer and archaeologist, was born on 1 July 1946 at 112 Birch Road, Oldbury, Worcestershire, the son of Harold Henry Aston, a joiner's toolmaker, and his wife, Gladys, née Bagnall. Oldbury belonged to the industrial Black Country (on the border between ...
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Atkyns, Sir Robert (bap. 1647, d. 1711), topographer and antiquary
Robert J. Haines
Atkyns, Sir Robert (bap. 1647, d. 1711), topographer and antiquary, was baptized at Monken Hadley, Middlesex, on 26 August 1647, the eldest son of Sir Robert Atkyns (bap. 1621, d. 1710), lawyer, and his first wife, Mary (d. 1681), daughter of Sir George Clerk...
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Baker, John Norman Leonard (1893–1971), geographer
Ian Scargill
Baker, John Norman Leonard (1893–1971), geographer, was born on 12 December 1893 at 33 Beaumont Street, St Clements, Liverpool, the first son of the Revd John William Baker, Church of England clergyman, and his wife, Louisa (1858–1945). From Liverpool College (1911–13) he went up to ...
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Balchin, William George Victor [Bill] (1916–2007), geographer
David T. Herbert
Balchin, William George Victor [Bill] (1916–2007), geographer, was born on 20 June 1916 at 1 Ivy Cottages, Bellevue Road, Aldershot, the only child of Victor Balchin (1884–1944), steam lorry driver, and later publican, and his wife, Ellen Winifred Gertrude, née Chapple (1891–1988). His family life in ...
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Barry, George (1748–1805), topographical writer
T. F. Henderson
revised by Lionel Alexander Ritchie
Barry, George (1748–1805), topographical writer, was a native of Berwickshire. Educated at Edinburgh University, he was licensed to preach by the presbytery of Edinburgh. Initially he served as a tutor to the sons of gentlemen in Orkney, by whose patronage he became minister of second charge in ...
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Bartholomew, John George (1860–1920), geographer and cartographer
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Bartlet, Benjamin (1714–1787), numismatist and topographer
R. H. Thompson
Bartlet, Benjamin (1714–1787), numismatist and topographer, was born on 1 September 1714 at Bradford, Yorkshire, the only son of Benjamin Bartlet (1678–1759), bookseller and apothecary, and his second wife, Elizabeth Green (1684–1751). The family were Quakers: his grandfather and father suffered the seizure of goods for absenting themselves from the parish church; and ...
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Bartlett, William Henry (1809–1854), topographical artist
R. E. Graves
revised by Anne Pimlott Baker
Bartlett, William Henry (1809–1854), topographical artist, was born on 26 March 1809 at 5 Bartholomew Place, Kentish Town, London, the second child and elder son in the family of three children of William Bartlett and his wife, Ann. At the age of seven he was sent to a local boarding-school, where he was very miserable. He left school in 1821, and in 1822 was apprenticed to the antiquary ...
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Barton, Richard (1706–1759), topographer and religious writer
Eoin Magennis
Barton, Richard (1706–1759), topographer and religious writer, was born in Painstown, co. Meath, Ireland, the third son of the Revd John Barton (fl. 1675–1735), dean of Ardagh, and Elinor Jenney, daughter of the Revd Henry Jenney, archdeacon of Dromore diocese, and granddaughter of ...
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Baskerville, Thomas (1630/31–1700), topographer
Andrew Warmington
Baskerville, Thomas (1630/31–1700), topographer, was born, probably at Bayworth House, Sunningwell, Berkshire, in 1630 or early 1631, the eldest surviving son of the eccentric antiquary Hannibal Baskerville (1597–1668) and his second wife and cousin, Mary (1602–1644)—daughter of Nicholas Baskerville and widow of ...
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Beaver, Stanley Henry (1907–1984), geographer
M. J. Wise
revised by Elizabeth Baigent
Beaver, Stanley Henry (1907–1984), geographer, was born on 11 August 1907 at 69 Clifford Gardens, Willesden, London, the second son and fifth child in the family of two sons and three daughters of William Henry Beaver, Post Office letter sorter, and his wife, ...
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Beckinsale, Robert Percy [Becky] (1908–1998), geographer
Andrew S. Goudie
Beckinsale, Robert Percy [Becky] (1908–1998), geographer, was born on 23 July 1908 at Stanford in the Vale, near Faringdon, Berkshire, one of four children of Percy Beckinsale (1880–1947), gardener and harness maker, and his wife, Annie, née Bunce (1880–1959), a governess. At the age of ten he went to the grammar school in ...
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Beke, Charles Tilstone (1800–1874), traveller and geographer
Donald Crummey
Beke, Charles Tilstone (1800–1874), traveller and geographer, was born on 10 October 1800 at Stepney, London, the son of James Beke (1779–1853), architect, and his wife Susannah Hindle (1778–1864). The family had ancestral connections to Bekesbourne in Kent, where ...
