Robert Neal Rudmose Brown

I came across this geographer while researching Marguerita Oughton, who was a stalwart of the GA for many years, and retired in 1965. 'Ruddy' Brown or RB is described as an 'explorer' geographer. He fell out with former GA President Percy Maude Roxby over his thoughts on China.
His father was a prominent Geographer of the time, who went on expeditions to Spitsbergen and wrote popular books.
Rudmose Brown also worked as an assistant to another person who has reappeared several times: Patrick Geddes.

He wrote about the influence of Geddes and Herbertson in a paper in Geography in 1948, which I missed at the time of going through the 1940s.

According to the link below, he also raised funds for an expedition to Antarctica. It is worth reading his Herbertson Memorial Lecture from 1948 which is referenced at the end.

There is plenty more information and links in the final references as well. 




Source:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kA10CwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA15&ots=IiZwssqnSc&dq=%22marguerita%20oughton%22%20sheffield&pg=PA8#v=onepage&q=%22marguerita%20oughton%22%20sheffield&f=false

Brown, R. N. Rudmose. “SCOTLAND AND SOME TRENDS IN GEOGRAPHY: JOHN MURRAY, PATRICK GEDDES and ANDREW HERBERTSON.” Geography, vol. 33, no. 3, 1948, pp. 107–120. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40564415. Accessed 29 Apr. 2020.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Hgx0CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT47&lpg=PT47&dq=L+S+Suggate+new+zealand+geography&source=bl&ots=hSAbYtikP7&sig=ACfU3U3xTp3QcGa298y0a41c_rst3eRWtw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJk9ndgPGAAxWhS0EAHV5fCPs4FBDoAXoECAgQAw#v=onepage&q=L%20S%20Suggate%20new%20zealand%20geography&f=false

Updated August 2023

Source above:

The section on Rudmose Brown references a great many GA Presidents, plus Patrick Geddes - who was a GA Vice President.

A nice quote from J L Myres.

Source: Robert Neal Rudmose Brown - Delivered to geographers at the University of Sheffield

Scottish Geographical Magazine (Vol 30) 1914 p.467-79