Andrew John Herbertson

Andrew John Herbertson

Andrew John Herbertson FRGS FRMS (1865-1915) was a British geographer. He was born on 11 October 1865 in Galashiels, Selkirkshire[1] to parents Andrew Hunter Herbertson and Janet Matthewson.[2] He went to school locally at Galashiels Academy and in Edinburgh at Edinburgh Institution.[2] From 1886 to 1889 he studied in the University of Edinburgh, but he never gained a degree. In 1892 he went with Patrick Geddes to Dundee to teach botany. in 1892 he was made a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society. He then moved in 1892 to Fort William, Scotland to work on a metereological observatory on Ben Nevis. In 1894 he moved to Manchester to become a lecturer on geography in the University of Manchester. In 1898 he got a doctorate from University of Freiburg-im-Breisgau. In 1899 he moved to the University of Oxford to become a reader of geography; he would become head of the geography department at Oxford in 1910. In 1908 he was made a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. . He died on July 15, 1915 in Radnage, Buckinghamshire.

References

  1. ↑ http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/chronob/HERB1865.htm
  2. 1 2 Elizabeth Baigent (2004). "Herbertson, Andrew John (1865-1915), geographer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/40187. ISBN 9780198614128. Retrieved 29 July 2015.


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