Olive Garnett

In 1968, the GA President was Alice Garnett.
Just before I posted the entry for her, I was made aware by Jo Norcup that she had a sister called Olive, who also spent a life involved in geography education, and was also very much involved with the Geographical Association.


This was the tweet that I mentioned.

#OTD in 1903 Alice Garnett was born. She was the second British woman to become a geography professor, pioneering the subject at @sheffielduni, and the first female President of the Institute of British Geographers. She was also VP of the RGS and President of the @The_GA. pic.twitter.com/oH6fqHIqMf

— Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) (@RGS_IBG) May 15, 2020

And this was the response from Jo Norcup.

Then there was her sister Olive and all her geography textbooks (see @AvrilMaddrell)

— Dr Joanne Norcup (@jonorcup) May 15, 2020

Olive Garnett (c.1900–1982), BA, DipEd, Head of the Geography Department (1926–1965), Vice-Principal of Froebel College (1947–1961), Deputy Principal of Froebel College (1961–1965)

I found a portrait here courtesy of the University of Roehampton. It was painted by Leslie Garnett.

It seems Olive was linked with Froebel College for many years, which was known previously as the Froebel Educational Institute, and had the philosophy that children learn through discovery.

There is an Olive Garnett building at Roehampton.

She is mentioned in Rex Walford's book on School Geography in the UK.

A key book from Olive was her 'Fundamentals in School Geography' - I purchased a copy. This provides a great deal of guidance on the teaching of Geography and much which would be familiar to the geography teacher of today. At the end of each chapter, lists of suggested further reading includes plenty of former GA Presidents: Fairgrieve, C C Carter and Alice Garnett of course.



















Source:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=p_xfuY8CJ48C&pg=PT115&lpg=PT115&dq=%22marguerita+oughton%22+sheffield&source=bl&ots=xln_U09sEO&sig=ACfU3U0BVaFI8t74PC7xxPHMiijd8QoLyQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjbrsfys43pAhXKQEEAHeGlCCIQ6AEwAnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

Any other information or images relating to Olive Garnett would be gratefully received.