Edward Ayearst Reeves

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BornFebruary 9, 1862
Lewes
DiedOctober 17, 1945(1945-10-17) (aged 83)
Reigate
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Grace Eden Harley
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(m. 1888)​
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Edward Ayearst Reeves (1862–1945)[1] was a British geographer, astronomer, and cartographer. He was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society beginning in 1896, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society from 1900,[2] and won the Cullum Geographical Medal in 1922 and the Victoria Medal in 1928.[3]

Reeves became a Junior Assistant in the map room of the Royal Geographical Society at age 16, and became a map curator in 1900.[3] Reeves was also an author of multiple written works, most notably including editing the ninth edition of Hints to Travellers (1906),[4] as well as authoring Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical (1904),[5] Maps and Map-Making (1910),[6][7] and The Recollections of a Geographer (1935).[8][9]

References

  1. ↑ "Edward Ayearst Reeves". The Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  2. ↑ "REEVES, Edward Ayearst (1862-1945)". AIM25. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Edward Ayearst Reeves". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 106 (1): 32–33. 1 February 1946. doi:10.1093/mnras/106.1.32b. ISSN 0035-8711.
  4. ↑ "Hints to Travellers, Scientific and General". Nature. 75 (1934): 77. 1906. doi:10.1038/075077a0. ISSN 1476-4687. S2CID 4036523.
  5. ↑ Reeves, E. A. (1904). Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical. OCLC 670411176.
  6. ↑ Reeves, Edward Ayearst (1910). Maps and Map-Making: Three Lectures Delivered Under the Auspices of the Royal Geographical Society. Royal Geographical Society. NLA 1677783.
  7. ↑ E. H. H. (1911). "Maps and Map-Making". Nature. 86 (2171): 478–479. doi:10.1038/086478b0. ISSN 1476-4687. S2CID 5369726.
  8. ↑ "The Recollections of a Geographer". Nature. 136 (3434): 282. 1935. doi:10.1038/136282c0. ISSN 1476-4687. S2CID 4133877.
  9. ↑ Reeves, E. A. (1935). The Recollections of a Geographer. hdl:2027/mdp.39015031980371.
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