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MURRAY, George William Walsh (1885-1966)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0402 GWM

Held at: Royal Geographical Society

Title: MURRAY, George William Walsh (1885-1966)

Date(s): 1943-1966

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 1 box and 6 files

Name of creator(s): Murray | George William Walsh | 1885-1966 | surveyor and author

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1885; educated, Westminster School; Joined Survey of Egypt, 1907; conducted many survey expeditions in the deserts of Egypt; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, 1907-1966; Political Officer, Northern Red Sea Patrol, 1915; served with 7th Field Survey Coy RE in Sinai and Palestine, 1916-1919; Captain, 1918; Director, Desert Surveys, 1932-1937; Director, Topographical Survey, 1937-1947; Technical Expert, Survey of Egypt, 1948-1951; Member Council Fuad I Desert Institute, 1950; Founder's Medal Royal Geographical Society, 1936; President, Cairo Scientific Society, 1936-1938; Membre de l'Institut d'Egypte, 1938 (Vice-President, 1946-1947); died, 1966.

Publications: Sons of Ishmæl, 1935

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of George Murray, 1943-1966, including correspondence and other papers relating to North Africa and SW Asia; correspondence, 1963-1966, with R Bagnold, Miss Caton-Thompson, C H Gimingham, Walter F E Resch, and others and typescripts of some published works and some annotated offprints chiefly concerned with the morphology of the desert.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Accessed via the Foyle Reading Room. Free of charge for Fellows, Members and those with valid academic identification. All other users pay a charge and must bring identification in order to register on arrival.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopying at the discretion of the Archivist and subject to completion of 'application for copies' form. No reproduction or publication without permission of the RGS-IBG Archivist.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue available in the Foyle reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received from the family, 1971 and 1975.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Prepared by an Archives volunteer using existing finding aids. Revised by Sarah Drewery. Sources: Who's Who

Rules or conventions: ISAD(G) ed.2, name authority NRA.

Date(s) of descriptions: 25 October 2001; Oct 2008.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Desert science

Personal names
Bagnold | Ralph Alger | 1896-1990 | Brigadier | geophysicist
Gimingham | Charles Henry | b 1923 | botanist
Murray | George William Walsh | 1885-1966 | surveyor and author
Thompson | Gertrude Caton- | 1888-1985 | anthropologist and egyptologist

Corporate names

Places
Asia
North Africa