Hilda Ormsby
Née Rodwell Jones , UK geographer
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- Bachelors Geography University of Oxford
- Masters Geography University of Oxford
- PhD Geography University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Hilda Ormsby born Hilda Rodwell Jones was a British academic and geographer. Life Ormsby was born in Hanley, Staffordshire in 1877. Her father was a minister and the family moved around the country frequently when she was growing up. Despite this she took a certificate in Geography in the organisation that would be very important to her - the London School of Economics and Political Science . After this she moved to France where she studied French and German and minor subjects at the École Normale de Melun. In 1911 she and brother, Llewellyn, discovered the lectures given by the LSE geographer Halford Mackinder on Saturday mornings for school teachers. She became an geography demonstrator in the following year and did sound work there during World War One whilst lecturing and studying. One of her tasks was creating terrain maps of the Western Front for Naval Intelligence. She graduated in Geography despite the course being for three years. In recognition she became one of their lecturers in 1918.
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