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LINTON, Professor David Leslie (1906-1971)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP49

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: LINTON, Professor David Leslie (1906-1971)

Date(s): Created [1926-1971]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box or 0.01m3

Name of creator(s): Linton | David Leslie | 1906-1971 | Professor of Geography

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 12 July 1906; Educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School; King's College London, BSc (Geography), 1927, MSc, 1930; DSc 1945; Demonstrator in Geography and Geology, University of London, 1927-1929; Lecturer in Geography, University of Edinburgh, 1929-1945; served in the RAF (Photographic Intelligence), 1940-1945; Professor of Geography, University of Sheffield, 1945-1958; DSc, 1955; Professor of Geography, University of Birmingham, from 1958; William Evans Visiting Professor, University of Otago, 1959; Honorary Editor of Geography, the Quarterly Journal of the Geographical Association, 1945-1965; President of the Institute of British Geographers, 1962, and of the Geographical Association, 1964; Fellow of King's College London (FKC), 1971; received the Murchison Award, Royal Geographical Society, 1943; died 11 April 1971.

Publications: Structure, Surface and Drainage in South-East England with Sidney William Wooldridge (London, 1939); Peeblesshire and Selkirkshire with Catherine Park Snodgrass, (1946); Discovery, Education and Research (Sheffield, 1948); Structure, Surface and Drainage in South-East England with Sidney William Wooldridge (George Philip & Son, London Geographical Institute, London, 1955); editor of Sheffield and its Region. A scientific and historical survey (Local Executive Committee, Sheffield, 1956).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of David Linton, comprising:
Notebooks and loose sheets of notes, [1926-1971], containing geographical and geological field notes on land formation in Great Britain and other regions, including Canada, 1952, United States of America, 1952 & 1965, Antarctica, 1958, South America, 1959, Scandinavia, 1960, and South Africa, 1967; assorted photographs, [1960-1969]; obituary, 1971.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 box.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College, London.

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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Placed in the Centre by the family.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description ISAD(G), 2nd edition, 2000. National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2000


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Field work | Research work
Photographs | Visual materials
Geography
Geomorphology

Personal names
Linton | David Leslie | 1906-1971 | geographer

Corporate names

Places
Canada | North America
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
South Africa | Southern Africa
USA | North America
Antarctica
South America