Harold St. John Loyd Winterbotham

Brigadier
Harold St. John Loyd Winterbotham
CB CMG DSO ADC
Honours

Harold St. John Loyd Winterbotham CB CMG DSO ADC (5 February 1879 – 10 December 1946) was a British soldier and surveyor who from 1930 to 1934 was Director of the Ordnance Survey.[4][5]

Biography

Born in Northampton and educated at Fettes College as well as the Royal Military Academy, Winterbotham was commissioned in the Royal Engineers in 1897.[6][7] He fought in the South African War, and his service there was recognized by a Queen's South Africa Medal with three clasps. After the war, Winterbotham served as garrison adjutant in Saint Helena, later returning to South Africa in 1908 to carry out a topographical survey until 1911.[8] He joined the Ordnance Survey out of Southampton in 1911, being in charge of the Trigonometrical and Topographical Division.[4]

When World War I broke out in 1914, he left for France to serve as commander of a unit. During the war, it is remembered that he was nicknamed "The Astrologer" because he could pinpoint far-away targets with guns.[9] For his service in the war, he was honored as both a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order and a Companion of the Order of St Michael & St George, as well as receiving a brevet of lieutenant-colonel.[4]

In 1920, Winterbotham returned to the same division of the Ordnance Survey, and from 1922 to 1929 was chief of the Geographical Section, General Staff. One year after his appointment to the directorship of the Ordnance Survey in 1930, he became an Aide-de-Camp to the King.[10] From the 1930 general assembly until 1935, he served as Secretary General of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.[11][12]

Winterbotham retired from both the Ordnance Survey and the Army in 1935;[4] he was placed on retirement pay 5 February, and was granted the honorary title of Brigadier.[13] In 1939, George Washington University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Science degree.[14]

Winterbotham died in his Sutton Courtenay home on 10 December 1946, aged 68.[4]

During both of their lifetimes, Winterbotham and Charles Close were close geographical collaborators.[15]

Awards

References

  1. ^ "No. 29438". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 January 1916. p. 574.
  2. ^ "No. 30450". The London Gazette (5th supplement). 28 December 1917. p. 3.
  3. ^ "No. 34119". The London Gazette (4th supplement). 28 December 1934. p. 4.
  4. ^ a b c d e Cheetham, G. (15 March 1947). "Brigadier H. St. J. L. Winterbotham, C.B., C.M.G.". Nature. 159 (4037): 362–363. doi:10.1038/159362a0.
  5. ^ Lilley, Keith; Porter, Catherine; Rice, Catharine. Behind the Lines: Frontline Geographies, Spatial Technologies and Mapping First World War Landscapes.
  6. ^ "Army Distinguished Service Medal Brigadier Harold St. John Loyd Winterbotham, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., A.D.C." Mitchell Families Online. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  7. ^ Ismail-Zadeh, Alik; Joselyn, Jo Ann (16 April 2019). "IUGG: beginning, establishment, and early development (1919–1939)". History of Geo- and Space Sciences. 10 (1): 25–44. doi:10.5194/hgss-10-25-2019.
  8. ^ Collier, Peter; Inkpen, Robert J. (September 2003). "Photogrammetry in the Ordnance Survey from Close to MacLeod". The Photogrammetric Record. 18 (103): 224–243. doi:10.1111/0031-868X.t01-1-00009.
  9. ^ McMaster, Peter (1991). "The Ordnance Survey: 200 years of mapping and on". RSA Journal. 139 (5421): 581–593. JSTOR 41375634.
  10. ^ "Army Notes". Royal United Services Institution. Journal. 76 (502): 445–454. 1931. doi:10.1080/03071843109427283.
  11. ^ "IUGG's Centennial Anniversary – historical note II" (PDF). The IUGG Electronic Journal. 19 (5). International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. 1 May 2019.
  12. ^ "WINTERBOTHAM (Harold St. John Lloyd)". Biographie Belge d'Outre-Mer (in French). VI. Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer. 1968 [31 July 1959].
  13. ^ "No. 34130". The London Gazette. 5 February 1935. p. 843.
  14. ^ "Honorary Degree Recipients". Office of the Provost. The George Washington University. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  15. ^ O'Brien, C.I.M. (September 1992). "A man for his time? Sir Charles Arden-Close 1865–1952" (PDF). Sheetlines. 34. The Charles Close Society: 1–9.
  16. ^ Congressional Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross, and the Distinguished Service Medal Issued by the War Department Since April 6, 1917 Up to and including General Orders, Number 126, War Department, November 11, 1919. OCLC 3492910 – via UNT Digital Library.
  17. ^ "History and past recipients". Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). Retrieved 29 January 2024.

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