Robert Rudmose-Brown

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Robert Rudmose-Brown
Born13 September 1879
Died27 January 1957
Sheffield
Alma materDulwich College
Occupation(s)Professor (botany), University College, Dundee

Consultant, Scottish Spitsbergen Syndicate
Vice-president, International Polar Congress
Lecturer (geography), Sheffield University

President, Institute of British Geographers
Known forBotany, polar exploration

Robert Neal Rudmose-Brown (13 September 1879 – 27 January 1957) was a Scottish academic

polar explorer.[2]

Early life

Rudmose-Brown (left) with fellow naturalists aboard the Scotia during the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition

Rudmose-Brown was born on 13 September 1879, the younger son of an

University College, Dundee, at that time part of the University of St Andrews.[4]

Antarctic exploration

At Dundee he met

Sheffield University and spent several seasons as a field botanist in Svalbard
.

War Service

As a result of this when war came he worked at the Intelligence Department of the Naval Staff in London with responsibility for Arctic information, a role he reprised between 1939 and 1945.[8]

Academic rise

In 1920 he became

Sheffield as professor of geography.[9]

Reputation consolidated

He was president of the

Institute of British Geographers between 1937 and 1938 and at different times served as the president of the Arctic and Antarctic clubs.[10] He died in Sheffield on 27 January 1957,[11] bequeathing his polar library to the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge.[12]

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Bibliography

  • Rudmose-Brown, R. N., The Voyage of the Scotia, Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration in Antarctic Seas, 1906
  • Rudmose-Brown, R. N., Principles of Economic Geography, 1920 (new ed. 1926, 1931, 1939, 1946)
  • Rudmose-Brown, R. N., A Naturalist at the Poles: The Life, Work and Voyages of Dr. W.S. Bruce, the Polar Explorer, Seeley, Service & Co., London, 1923
  • Rudmose-Brown, R. N., The Polar Regions: A Physical and Economic Geography of the Arctic and Antarctic, Methuen, 1927
  • Rudmose-Brown, R. N. (1922). "Åland Islands". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company.
  • Rudmose-Brown, R. N. (1955). "Spitsbergen". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21. pp. 248–249.
The standard author abbreviation R.N.R.Br. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[13]

References

  1. JSTOR 621151
  2. ^ Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration Polar Record (Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute, 19 March 2001) Vol 38, No 204, Page 69
  3. ^ Biographical details
  4. ^ Macdonald, Murdo (2020), Patrick Geddes's Intellectual Origins, Edinburgh University Press, p.122
  5. ^ Peak named in his honour
  6. ^ "Rudmose Rocks". GNIS. U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  7. ^ Further details
  8. ^ Consequently being created a Commander of the Order of St Olav by the Norwegian Government Court Circular: The Times, Wednesday, 26 Apr 1944; pg. 8; Issue 49840; col B
  9. ^ On his retirement in 1945, becoming emeritus professor.
  10. ^ 1932 Antarctic;1949,Arctic: Who was Who Vol V p1623
  11. ^ Who was Who(Ibid) states that his wife Edith died in 1950: they had one daughter.
  12. ^ Rudmose-Brown Collection
  13. ^ International Plant Names Index.  R.N.R.Br.
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