Herbert Fordham
Sir Herbert George Fordham (9 May 1854 – 1929), was a British writer on cartography whose Carto-Bibliography method of cataloging maps was widely adopted. He was the benefactor of the Fordham collection housed by the Royal Geographical Society - one of the most important map collections in the country.[1]
Fordham was born in
Between 1874 and 1892 he published several papers on the geology, natural history, and botany of Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire. In 1887 he published Rural Municipalities and the Reform of Local Government.[1]
In 1891, on the death of his father, Fordham returned to the family business. From 1904 he served in local government, chairing
From 1900 he began to collect old maps and road books, initially from England and later from abroad. Using both his own and the collections of others, he began publishing and printing on maps including Studies in Carto-Bibliography in 1914. In 1929 he was awarded the gold medal of the Brussels Geographical Society recognising him as one of Europe's foremost authorities on cartography.[1]
Fordham donated some rare maps and atlases to both the
Publications
- Fordham, Herbert George (1904). "A Small Bronze Object Found near Guilden Morden" (PDF). Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. X (4). Cambridge Antiquarian Society: 373–374, 404.
- Fordham, Herbert George (1909). Studies in carto-bibliography, British and French, and in the bibliography of itineraries and road-books. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Copy at Internet Archive.
References
- ^ a b c d e ODNB.
- ^ Whitaker 2006, p. 42.
- ^ "Issue 30557, London Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. 5 March 1918. p. 2780. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
- ^ Fordham 1904.
Bibliography
- "Fordham, Sir Herbert George (1854–1929)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33200. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ISBN 978-0954218973.