Scottish geographer (1865–1915)
Andrew John Herbertson Andrew John Herbertson FRSE FRGS FRMS (11 October 1865 – 15 July 1915) was a Scottish geographer .
Life
He was born in Galashiels , Selkirkshire [ 1] [ 2] Galashiels Academy and in Edinburgh at Edinburgh Institution .[ 2] University of Edinburgh , but he never gained a degree. He then gained a place at Oxford University where he graduated MA.[ 3]
In 1892, he was appointed to assist Patrick Geddes with the teaching of botany at University College, Dundee . in 1892 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society . He then moved in 1892 to Fort William, Scotland to work on a metereological observatory on Ben Nevis . In 1894 he moved to Manchester to become a lecturer in political and commercial geography in the University of Manchester .
From 1896 to 1899, he lectured in industrial and commercial geography at Heriot-Watt College , Edinburgh.[ 4] Royal Society of Edinburgh . His proposers were Peter Guthrie Tait , Sir John Murray , Ralph Copeland and Alexander Buchan .[ 3]
In 1898, he received a doctorate (PhD) from University of Freiburg-im-Breisgau . In 1899 he moved to the University of Oxford to become a reader of geography; then became the first Oxford Professor of Geography in 1905. He would become head of the geography department at Oxford in 1910. In 1908 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society .
He died of a heart attack in Radnage , Buckinghamshire . He is buried with his wife Frances Dorothy (who died two weeks later) in Holywell Cemetery nearby.[ 4]
Their son, Lt. Andrew Hunter Herbertson, was killed at Arras in the First World War in May 1917.[ 5]
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