Royal Geographical Society

She was buried in an unmarked grave at Hillingdon Cemetery. After she died, Emily Norris described her in a private letter as the noblest and best of women. Norris donated a portrait...

DB 's father, Sir Richard Strachey , was born on 24 July 1817 at Sutton Court at Stowey in Somerset. He joined the Bombay Engineers at the age of nineteen and pursued an immensely...

She encountered McGrath, and thought him the most attractive man she had ever met, during the high tide of success of her Kufara book; she got him admitted to her second Royal Geographical Society lecture...

During her twenty years in France EW she gave birth to two daughters (one of whom died of scarlet fever), and at least three sons. One of these, Charles , later became her collaborator on...

Through Venetia Buddicom , she met Sir Henry Lawrence , former acting governor of Bombay, who in turn introduced her to Lionel Smith and Arthur Hinks , the latter of whom was Secretary to the...

DM is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society , and also belongs to the Royal Asiatic Society and the Tibet Society .

EKM belonged to the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society for Asian Affairs in London, and to the Club des Explorateurs in Paris.

Some Austen news items are regrettable. In an interview with the Royal Geographical Society in June 2011, V.S. Naipaul , in asserting his own superiority to women writers (and claiming he could tell male from...

Encouraged by her friendship with Peter Scott , the explorer's son, EH spent a whole month, plus additional shorter periods, in research at the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge, and also visited the...

Shortly after her expedition to Siberia, KM was one of the first cohort of women elected to fellowships of the Royal Geographical Society , at a time when she was putting substantial effort into...

FS was awarded the Royal Geographical Society 's Back Memorial Grant for her work in Persia. She was the third woman to receive this award.

Since FS properly identified several mountains and villages for the first time, this journey marked the beginning of her reputation as a traveller and cartographer. She later wrote up her expedition for the Royal Geographical Society

IB journeyed around Korea and China, occasionally returning to Japan to rest. During a time of political unrest in Korea, she worked as war correspondent and political interpreter, consulted with the Korean royal family...

In 2007 she sat on the panel judging the Eric Gregory awards for new writing. In 2008 she became the first writer in residence at Somerset House and the first poet in residence for the...

MC 's Fellowship of the Royal Geographical Society is mentioned without comment by various sources, but it was in fact highly controversial. The Society had included a handful of female Fellows since 1884, but purely...