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Edward Ayearst Reeves

British geographer (1862–1945)

Grace Eden Harley

(m. 1888)

Children2, including AlecAwards

Cullum Geographical Medal (1922)
Victoria Medal (1928)

Honours

Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (1896)
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (1900)

Academic workInstitutionsRoyal Geographical Society

Edward Ayearst Reeves (9 February 1862 – 17 October 1945) was a British geographer, astronomer, and cartographer. He was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society beginning in 1896,^[2] a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society from 1900,^[3] and won the 1922 Cullum Geographical Medal and 1928 Victoria Medal.^[2]

Born on 9 February 1862 in Lewes, Reeves became a junior assistant in the Royal Geographical Society's map room of the at age 16, becoming a map curator in 1900. Beginning in 1901, he worked as an instructor of both astronomy and surveying; in 1904, he was promoted to superintendent of the map drawing department. He retired in 1933.^[2]

Reeves was an author of multiple written works, notably including editing multiple editions of Hints to Travellers,^[4]^[5] as well as authoring Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical (1904),^[6] Maps and Map-making (1910),^[7]^[8] and The Recollections of a Geographer (1935).^[9]^[10]

Reeves married Grace Eden Harley in 1888. He died in his Reigate home on 17 October 1945,^[2] leaving his widow, a son (Alec Reeves), and a daughter (Dorothy).^[11]

References

^ ^a ^b "Edward Ayearst Reeves". Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Edward Ayearst Reeves". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 106 (1): 32–33. 1 February 1946. Bibcode:1946MNRAS.106R..32.. doi:10.1093/mnras/106.1.32b.
^ "REEVES, Edward Ayearst (1862-1945)". AIM25. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
^ "Hints to Travellers, Scientific and General". Nature. 75 (1934): 77. 22 November 1906. doi:10.1038/075077a0.
^ A. R. H. (October 1935). "Hints to Travellers: Review". The Geographical Journal. 86 (4): 358. doi:10.2307/1786227.
^ Reeves, E. A. (1904). Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical. Royal Geographical Society. OCLC 670411176.
^ Reeves, E. A. (1910). Maps and Map-making. Royal Geographical Society. OCLC 1157174239.
^ E. H. H. (8 June 1911). "Maps and Map-making". Nature. 86 (2171): 478–479. doi:10.1038/086478b0.
^ Reeves, E. A. (1935). The Recollections of a Geographer. Seeley, Service. OCLC 569280192.
^ "The Recollections of a Geographer". Nature. 136 (3434): 282. 24 August 1935. doi:10.1038/136282c0.
^ Robertson, David (6 January 2011). "Reeves, Alec Harley (1902–1971), engineer and inventor". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/45670.