Charles Bungay Fawcett

For other people named Charles Fawcett, see Charles Fawcett (disambiguation).

Charles Bungay Fawcett (25 August 1883 – 21 September 1952)[1] was a British geographer, regarded as "one of the founders of modern British academic geography" and an early promoter of the idea of regional planning.[2]

He was born into a farming family in Staindrop, County Durham, and went to school in nearby Gainford. He studied science at University College, Nottingham and worked briefly as a schoolteacher before joining the staff under A. J Herbertson at the then-new School of Geography at Oxford University. He was later a lecturer at University College, Southampton, and Leeds University. In 1928, he was appointed Professor of Geography at University College London, where he remained until his retirement in 1949.[3]

  1. ^ Transactions and Papers (Institute of British Geographers) No. 18 (1952), pp. xi-xiii. Retrieved 26 August 2015
  2. ^ John Tomaney, "Anglo-Scottish Relations: A Borderland Perspective", in William L. Miller (ed.), Anglo-Scottish Relations, from 1900 to Devolution and Beyond, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp.232-233
  3. ^ John Dean, "The barefoot evangelist" Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine, The Northern Echo, 24 May 2004. Retrieved 14 July 2013