Harold St. John Loyd Winterbotham

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Companion of the Order of the Bath (1935)[3]

Harold St. John Loyd Winterbotham (5 February 1879 – 10 December 1946) was a British soldier and

surveyor who from 1930 to 1934 was Director of the Ordnance Survey.[4][5]

Biography

Born in

topographical survey until 1911.[8] He joined the Ordnance Survey out of Southampton in 1911, being in charge of the Trigonometrical and Topographical Division.[4]

When

lieutenant-colonel.[4]

In 1920, Winterbotham returned to the same division of the Ordnance Survey, and from 1922 to 1929 was chief of the Geographical Section, General Staff. One year after his appointment to the directorship of the Ordnance Survey in 1930, he became an

Aide-de-Camp to the King.[10] From the 1930 general assembly until 1935, he served as Secretary General of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.[11][12]

Winterbotham retired from both the Ordnance Survey and the Army in 1935;

retirement pay 5 February, and was granted the honorary title of Brigadier.[13] In 1939, George Washington University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Science degree.[14]

Winterbotham died in his Sutton Courtenay home on 10 December 1946, aged 68.[4]

During both of their lifetimes, Winterbotham and Charles Close were close geographical collaborators.[15]

Awards

References

  1. ^ "No. 29438". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 January 1916. p. 574.
  2. ^ "No. 30450". The London Gazette (5th supplement). 28 December 1917. p. 3.
  3. ^ "No. 34119". The London Gazette (4th supplement). 28 December 1934. p. 4.
  4. ^
    doi:10.1038/159362a0
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  5. ^ Lilley, Keith; Porter, Catherine; Rice, Catharine. Behind the Lines: Frontline Geographies, Spatial Technologies and Mapping First World War Landscapes.
  6. ^ "Army Distinguished Service Medal Brigadier Harold St. John Loyd Winterbotham, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., A.D.C." Mitchell Families Online. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  7. doi:10.5194/hgss-10-25-2019
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  8. doi:10.1111/0031-868X.t01-1-00009
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  9. JSTOR 41375634
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  10. doi:10.1080/03071843109427283
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  11. ^ "IUGG's Centennial Anniversary – historical note II" (PDF). The IUGG Electronic Journal. 19 (5). International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. 1 May 2019.
  12. Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer
    . 1968 [31 July 1959].
  13. ^ "No. 34130". The London Gazette. 5 February 1935. p. 843.
  14. The George Washington University
    . Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  15. ^ O'Brien, C.I.M. (September 1992). "A man for his time? Sir Charles Arden-Close 1865–1952" (PDF). Sheetlines. 34. The Charles Close Society: 1–9.
  16. OCLC 3492910
    – via UNT Digital Library.
  17. Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)
    . Retrieved 29 January 2024.

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