Manley, Gordon

Gordon Manley was born on 3 January 1902 in Douglas, Isle of Man. He studied engineering at Manchester University, later reading geography under Professor Frank Debenham at Cambridge University. In 1925, he joined the Meteorological Office, and the following year served on the Cambridge East Greenland Expedition (leader James Mann Wordie). The party spent the summer surveying the coastline of the Franz Josefs Fjord area of east Greenland. After the expedition, he taught at the universities of Birmingham and Durham before returning to Cambridge as university lecturer and demonstrator in 1939. Between 1945 and 1946, he served as president of the Royal Meteorological Society. In 1948, Manley was appointed the first professor of geography at Bedford College, London, where he remained until 1964 when he appointed to the chair of environmental sciences at Lancaster University. Retiring in 1968, he became emeritus professor and research associate at Lancaster. He died in Cambridge on 29 January 1980.

From the guide to the Gordon Manley collection, 1926-1928, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)

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