Howarth, Osbert John Radclyffe, 1877-1954

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Howarth, Osbert John Radclyffe, 1877-1954

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        Dates of existence

        1877-1954

        History

        Howarth, Osbert John Radclyffe, son of Osbert Henry Howarth, of Chelsea, by Mary, daughter of John Macfarlane, of Manchester; b. Nov. 18, 1877; adm. Sept. 25, 1888 (H); exhibitioner 1890; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon, July 1896, matric. Oct. 1896; Univ. Scholar in Geography 1901; B.A. 1900; M.A. 1905; geographical asst. to the editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 1904-11; asst. secretary, British Assoc. for the Advancement of Science 1909-20, secretary since 1920; employed in the Geographical section of the Intel­ligence Dept. of the Naval Staff 1915-9; O.B.E. Jan. 1, 1920; Curator of the Darwin Memorial Downe House, Downe, Kent, 1946; Hon. Ph. D. Leeds Univ.; President of the Geographical Association 1953; author of Commercial Geography of the World (1912), and other works; m. April 28, 1909, Eleanor Katherine, daughter of Stephen Paget, F.R.C.S., of St. Marylebone; d. June 22, 1954.

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        GB-2014-WSA-09639

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        International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition

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        Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020

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            The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from Play 1883 to Election 1960, Volume 3, compiled by J.B. Whitmore, G.R.Y. Radcliffe and D.C. Simpson, Barnet, 1963

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