Edmund William Gilbert, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEdmund William Gilbert
British social geographer
Date of Birth: 16-Oct-1900
Date of Death: 02-Oct-1973
Profession: geographer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Edmund William Gilbert
- Edmund William Gilbert (1900–1973) was a British social geographer.
- He was Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, from 1953 to 1967. and Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford.
- He defined geography in terms of the recognition of the characters of regionsIn the 1920s, while at Reading University, he studied the American West.
- He was much influenced by Halford Mackinder, to the point of being thought an uncritical admirer.During World War II he worked on the Naval Intelligence Handbooks, producing, with Robert Beckinsale and S.
- da Sá, the Spain and Portugal volumes.
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