Ken Cumberland

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Ken Cumberland
CBE
Born
Kenneth Brailey Cumberland

(1913-10-01)1 October 1913
Bradford, Yorkshire, England
Died17 April 2011(2011-04-17) (aged 97)
Manurewa, New Zealand
Alma materUniversity of New Zealand
Scientific career
FieldsPhysical geography
Thesis The regional morphology of soil erosion in New Zealand: a geographic reconnaissance  (DSc, 1945)

Kenneth Brailey Cumberland

CBE
(1 October 1913 – 17 April 2011) was a New Zealand geography academic and local-body politician.

Academic career

After a

Auckland University College (now the University of Auckland). In each place he played a key role in the establishment of teaching of physical geography. After retiring in 1978 he made and narrated a television series, Landmarks, on the geography of New Zealand.[1][2][3]

Political career

Cumberland was an associate of Dove-Myer Robinson and were both members of the Drainage League that opposed the Brown's Bay scheme supported by the then mayor John Allum.[4] Later, he was elected to the Auckland City Council in 1953 as part of Robinson's United Independents ticket.[5] He was re-elected in both 1956 and 1959; in the latter he was on the "Civic Reform" ticket that briefly succeeded the United Independents.[6][7] He was the leader of the Civic Reform group at the 1959 election.

Honours

Cumberland was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1973.[8] In the 1982 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to geography and the community.[9]

Death

Cumberland died on 17 April 2011, aged 97. He was survived by two of his children.[10]

Notes

  1. ^ Pountney, Charmaine (16 July 2012). "Kenneth Brailey Cumberland". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  2. ^ "Kenneth Cumberland". NZ On Screen. 24 August 2009. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  3. ^ "The institutionalisation of geography in New Zealand, an interpretation: a thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Geography, Massey University". Muir.massey.ac.nz. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  4. ^ Edgar 2012.
  5. ^ "Declaration of Poll". The New Zealand Herald. 16 November 1953. p. 16.
  6. ^ "Declaration of Poll". The New Zealand Herald. 28 November 1956. p. 5.
  7. ^ "Declaration of Result of Poll". The New Zealand Herald. 5 December 1959. p. 31.
  8. ^ "List of all fellows with surnames A–C". Royal Society of New Zealand. 2017. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  9. ^ "No. 49010". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 12 June 1982. p. 40.
  10. ^ "Geographer gave us story of NZ". The New Zealand Herald. 23 April 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2018.

References

  • Edgar, John (2012). Urban Legend: Sir Dove-Meyer Robinson.
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