Stanley Beaver

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Stanley Henry Beaver (born August 11, 1907 in Willesden , London , † November 10, 1984 in Eccleshall , Staffordshire ) was a British geographer and professor at Keele University .

life and work

Stanley Beaver was born on August 11, 1907, the fifth child of postal clerk Henry Beaver and his wife Hypatia Florence Hobbs in the London borough of Willesden. He had three sisters and a brother. From 1919 to 1925 he attended Kilburn Grammar School , from 1925 to 1928 he studied geography at University College London . After training as a teacher, he was employed by the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1928 , where he worked until 1950. There he quickly gained a good reputation as an economic geographer . Together with the geologist Dudley Stamp , he wrote the first edition of the book The British Isles in 1933 . His research activities focused on the coal and steel industry , the manufacturing industry and the transport industry .

On August 5, 1933, he married Elsie Barbara (1908-1992) in the parish church of the London borough of Battersea , together they had a son and three daughters.

After the outbreak of the Second World War , he worked at the University of Cambridge from 1941 to 1943 . His contributions, particularly on railroad issues in western and southwestern Europe , have been of great value to the geographic division of the British Naval Intelligence Department . His work on sand and gravel resources was important both for construction projects during the war (e.g. for airfields ) and for reconstruction work and new urban development in the post-war period . He did pioneering work in the field of land reclamation from industrial sites .

In 1950 he received an endowed professorship at the University College of North Staffordshire , now Keele University , which had been founded a year earlier, and he was very enthusiastic about the development of the new university. There he set up a weather station and wrote the work The Climate of Keele . He worked extensively on the development of the Staffordshire Potteries industrial area near Stoke-on-Trent . At his instigation, the aerial photo archive The Aerial Reconaissance Archives (TARA, now the National Collection of Aerial Photography ) was founded in the early 1960s . After retiring from Keele University in 1974, he moved to Eccleshall in Staffordshire. After years of poor health, he died there on November 10, 1984.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d M. J. Wise, Elizabeth Baigent: Beaver, Stanley Henry (1907-1984) . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press , September 1, 2011, doi : 10.1093 / ref: odnb / 30803 .
  2. ↑ JNLB: The British Isles: . In: Nature . tape 141 , no. 3574 , April 30, 1938, pp. 767-768 , doi : 10.1038 / 141767a0 .
  3. ^ A b Stanley Henry Beaver, 1907-1984 . In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers . tape 10 , no. 4 , 1985, pp. 504-506 , JSTOR : 621896 .
  4. ^ David C. Cowley, Lesley M. Ferguson, Allan Williams: The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives: A Global Aerial Photographic Collection . In: William S. Hanson, Ioana A. Oltean (Eds.): Archeology from Historical Aerial and Satellite Archives . Springer , New York 2013, ISBN 978-1-4614-4504-3 , pp. 14 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-1-4614-4505-0_2 .
personal data
SURNAME Beaver, Stanley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beaver, Stanley Henry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British geographer and professor at Keele University
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Willesden , London
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1984
Place of death Eccleshall , Staffordshire