Herbert John Fleure
Herbert John Fleure
| Prof. Herbert John Fleure MA DSc | |||||||||
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| Born | 1877 | ||||||||
| Died | 1969 | ||||||||
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University College, Aberystwyth Craig Fryn, Buarth Road, Aberystwyth [1913] Hillside, Brynymor Road, Aberystwyth [1921] Prof. of Geography and Anthropology, Manchester University; 123 Lapwing Lane, Didsbury, Manchester [1931] c/o RAI, 21 Bedford Square, WC1 [1949] | ||||||||
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geographer zoologist academic | ||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
RAI Council 1916 Member
RAI Council 1917 Member
RAI Council 1918 Member
RAI Council 1920 Member
RAI Council 1921 Member
RAI Council 1922 Member
RAI Council 1928 Vice President
RAI Council 1929 Vice President
RAI Council 1933-34 Member
RAI Council 1934-35 Member
RAI Council 1935-36 Member
RAI Council 1936-37 Vice President
RAI Council 1937-38 Vice President
RAI Council 1938-39 Vice President
RAI Council 1939-40 Member
RAI Council 1940-41 Member
RAI Council 1941-42 Member
RAI Council 1942-43 Vice President
RAI Council 1943-44 Vice President
RAI Council 1944-45 Vice President
RAI Council 1945-46 President
RAI Council 1946-47 President
House Notes
1908.11.10 proposed by J. Gray, seconded by E.N. Fallaize
1937 HML Racial evolution and archaeology Delivered 9th Nov. at Royal Society
1969.10 death noted
Notes From Elsewhere
Herbert John Fleure, FRS[1] (6 June 1877 – 1 July 1969), was a zoologist and geographer. He was secretary of the Geographical Association, editor of Geography, and President of the Cambrian Archaeological Association.
b. in Guernsey , 6 June 1877 , the son of John Fleure ( 1803 - 1890 ) an accountant and Marie (née Le Rougetel ) his wife. He was blind in one eye and his attendance at the States Intermediate School , Guernsey , 1885-91 , was irregular because of poor health. Despite illness he continued his studies at home, learning from books and his natural environment; he passed the London matriculation examination in 1894 and London Intermediate B.Sc. in 1897 . In Sept. 1897 he gained a scholarship to Aberystwyth , where he became a founder member of the Student Representative Council , published articles in the college magazine and obtained a first-class honours degree in zoology in 1901 . The University of Wales awarded him a fellowship enabling him to go to Zurich , Switzerland , to study marine biology . Whilst there he mastered German (he was already fluent in French ), and published the results of his research which gained him a D.Sc. degree (Wales) . He returned to Aberystwyth in 1904 as a lecturer in zoology, geology and botany . He served as head of the zoology, geology and botany department 1908-10 , head of the department of geology for a short period, and Professor of zoology from 1910 till 1917 when he was appointed the first (and only) Professor of anthropology and geography . He left Aberystwyth in 1930 to become the first Professor of geography of Victoria University , Manchester .
In 1905 he began an anthropological study of the Welsh people . He visited villages in all parts of Wales to make a survey and measurements, and give lectures. He reported on his progress to Section H (anthropology) of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1907 and (with T. Campbell James ) published a report in the journal Man , the first of nearly 30 articles by him on anthropology. His epochmaking paper on the geographical distribution of anthropological types in Wales appeared in 1916 . He published text books such as Human geography in Western Europe ( 1918 ), The Peoples of Europe ( 1922 ) and Races of England and Wales ( 1923 ), whilst his classic paper Régions Humanies which was published in Paris was widely translated. Between 1927 and 1956 he was joint author with H. J. E. Peake of the remarkable series of 10 vols. The corridors of time and in the meantime he published French life and its problems ( 1942 ) and A natural history of Man in Britain ( 1951 and 1959 ). He did much work for the teaching of geography in schools through his labours for the Geographical Association , of which he was secretary and also editor of its journal Geography for 30 years, 1917-47 . He became president of many learned bodies , including the Cambrian Archaeological Association in 1924 , while universities and scientific societies honoured him wherever he went; he was elected F.R.S. in 1936 . But it was as a teacher that he was best remembered, his approach being thought-provoking rather than overlaid with facts.
In 1910 he m. Hilda Mary Bishop of Guernsey , formerly a student at Aberystwyth , and they had 3 children. On retirement in 1944 he moved to London and later to 66 West Drive , Cheam , Surrey , where he d. 1 July 1969 .
Publications
External Publications
Human Geography in Western Europe (1918) The Peoples of Europe (1922)
Races of England and Wales (1923)
French Life and its Problems (1942)
A Natural History of Man in Britain (1951) (New Naturalist series)
The Guernsey Farmhouse (1964)
House Publications
Geographical distribution of anthrop, types in Wales [with T.C. James] 1916
Anthrop. and our older histories [with L. Winstanley] 1918
Early Neanthropic types in Europe and their modern representatives 1920
Megaliths and beakers [with H.J.E. Peake] 1930
A report of the anthropometric survey of the Isle of Man [with E. Davies] 1936
Racial evolution and archaeology 1937
Related Material Details
RAI Material
MS 245 (see also A51/2/6)
census
map box 27
Other Material
Some papers in National Library of Wales