Gordon Manley Papers 1918-2009
Related Entities
There are 2 Entities related to this resource.
Gordon Manley, geographer and meteorologist, 1902-1980
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65z7f76 (person)
Gordon Manley was born in 1902, and grew up in Blackburn. He studied geography at Cambridge University, graduating in 1923, then worked for a year for the Meteorological Office, and was a member of the 1926 Cambridge Expedition to East Greenland. He was a lecturer at Durham University from 1928 to 1939, becoming Senior Lecturer and Head of the new Department of Geography. He was Curator of the University Observatory from 1931-1939. He then moved to Cambridge University, ...
Manley, Gordon
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sg80d6 (person)
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 Bi...
