Regular readers (of which they are few at the moment) will know, this blog also includes mentions for people who have contributed a great deal to the Geographical Association, but haven't necessarily held the Presidency role.Roy Millward, who died in 2016, was one of these people.
Roy Millward, died aged 98 on 25 January 2016, and was a lecturer and reader in the Geography Department from 1947 until he retired in 1982.
A graduate of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, Roy was appointed assistant lecturer by Professor Pat Bryan, and with Joe Jennings, a physical geographer, and Terry Garfield as chief technician, he was a founding member of the Department in its present form.He collaborated extensively with W.G. Hoskins, jointly editing several of the volumes in the Making of the English Landscape series, and culminating in the publication of his own book in the series, Lancashire (1955), his native county.
Of the series as a whole a number of reviewers have considered this volume to be the most effective and rounded representation of landscape analysis.
He was also the university’s Quaker chaplain for many years.
He also ran fieldtrips for the GA Leicester branch for which he was the Secretary for over 20 years.
An obituary was published by the RGS-IBG.
Image credit: Tim Millward - Source: https://www.rgs.org/geography/news/roy-millward-(1917-2016)/
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