Edward Ayearst Reeves

Edward Ayearst Reeves
FRAS FRGS
Born(1862-02-09)9 February 1862[1]
Lewes, England
Died17 October 1945(1945-10-17) (aged 83)[1]
Reigate, England
Monuments
Spouse
Grace Eden Harley
​
(m. 1888)​
Children2, including Alec
Awards
Honours
Academic work
InstitutionsRoyal Geographical Society

Edward Ayearst Reeves (9 February 1862 – 17 October 1945) was a British geographer, astronomer, and cartographer. He was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society beginning in 1896,[2] a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society from 1900,[3] and won the 1922 Cullum Geographical Medal and 1928 Victoria Medal.[2]

Born on 9 February 1862 in Lewes, Reeves became a junior assistant in the Royal Geographical Society's map room of the at age 16, becoming a map curator in 1900. Beginning in 1901, he worked as an instructor of both astronomy and surveying; in 1904, he was promoted to superintendent of the map drawing department. He retired in 1933.[2]

Reeves was an author of multiple written works, notably including editing multiple editions of Hints to Travellers,[4][5] as well as authoring Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical (1904),[6] Maps and Map-making (1910),[7][8] and The Recollections of a Geographer (1935).[9][10]

Reeves married Grace Eden Harley in 1888. He died in his Reigate home on 17 October 1945,[2] leaving his widow, a son (Alec Reeves), and a daughter (Dorothy).[11]

References

  1. ^ a b "Edward Ayearst Reeves". Royal Astronomical Society. 9 February 1862. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d "Edward Ayearst Reeves". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 106 (1): 32–33. 1 February 1946. Bibcode:1946MNRAS.106R..32.. doi:10.1093/mnras/106.1.32b.
  3. ^ "REEVES, Edward Ayearst (1862-1945)". AIM25. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  4. ^ "Hints to Travellers, Scientific and General". Nature. 75 (1934): 77. 22 November 1906. Bibcode:1906Natur..75Q..77.. doi:10.1038/075077a0.
  5. ^ A. R. H. (October 1935). "Hints to Travellers: Review". The Geographical Journal. 86 (4): 358–360. doi:10.2307/1786227. JSTOR 1786227.
  6. ^ Reeves, E. A. (1904). Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical. Royal Geographical Society. OCLC 670411176.
  7. ^ Reeves, E. A. (1910). Maps and Map-making. Royal Geographical Society. OCLC 1157174239.
  8. ^ E. H. H. (8 June 1911). "Maps and Map-making". Nature. 86 (2171): 478–479. Bibcode:1911Natur..86..478E. doi:10.1038/086478b0.
  9. ^ Reeves, E. A. (1935). The Recollections of a Geographer. Seeley, Service. OCLC 569280192.
  10. ^ "The Recollections of a Geographer". Nature. 136 (3434): 282. 24 August 1935. Bibcode:1935Natur.136R.282.. doi:10.1038/136282c0.
  11. ^ Robertson, David (6 January 2011). "Reeves, Alec Harley (1902–1971), engineer and inventor". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/45670. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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