Eila Muriel Joice Campbell(15 December 1915 – 12 July 1994) was an English geographer and cartographer. She was best known for her work onDomesday Geography of Englandand her work on the international journal,Imago Mundi.
Eila Muriel Joice Campbell | |
|---|---|
| Born | Eila Muriel Joice Campbell 15 December 1915 |
| Died | 12 July 1994(aged 78) London, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Geographer |
| Awards | Murchison Award(1979) R. V. Tooley Award (1989) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Birkbeck College,University of London |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Cartography |
| Institutions | Birkbeck College,University of London |
Early life and education
editCampbell was born on 15 December 1915. She was educated atBournemouth School for GirlsandBrighton Diocesan Training College.After graduating fromBirkbeck College,University of Londonin 1941, Campbell worked as a teacher inSouthall,west London while also working as a part-time assistant at Birkbeck College.[1]Campbell received an MA with distinction from Birkbeck in 1946.[2]
Career
editCampbell began working at Birkbeck College as an assistant lecturer in 1945.[2]She worked closely withEva Germaine Rimington Taylor,supporting publication of her final book and establishing a lecture in her name.[3]
Campbell continued to work at Birkbeck throughout her academic career. She was made a lecturer in 1948, reader in 1963[4]and in 1970 became a full professor and the head of the geography department at the college.[5]She retired from Birkbeck in 1981.[1]
Campbell was chosen byHenry Clifford Darbyto jointly edit his book,Domesday Geography of England,to which she also contributed. She edited the international journal,Imago Mundi,for 20 years.[1]
Campbell was also a long term member of the councils of theSociety for Nautical Researchand theHakluyt Societyand was the honorary secretary of the latter organisation for around 20 years.[1]
She was also a long term member of theRoyal Geographical Society.Between 1971 and 1975, she served on the society's council and was a member of the library and maps committee for over 20 years. Campbell was president of the society's sub-committee for cartography.
The Royal Society awarded her with theMurchison Awardin 1979.[1]She retired in 1981.[6][7]Professor Campbell was awarded with theR. V. TooleyAward from theInternational Map Collectors' Societyin 1989.[8]
Hoonaard reports that Campbell's topic of research was becoming unfashionable in her later life and that after her death on 12 July 1994, courses on the history of cartography disappeared from the University of London's curriculum and replaced with courses which instead focused on quantitative techniques.[9]
Birkbeck established a series of lectures on geography in her name in 1995.[10]
References
edit- ^abcde"Obituary: Professor Eila Campbell".The Independent.26 July 1994.Retrieved7 November2017.
- ^ab"Obituary: Eila Muriel Joice Campbell (1915–1994)".Imago Mundi.47:7–12. 1 January 1995.doi:10.1080/03085699508592810.
- ^Campbell, Eila M.J.; Baigent, Elizabeth (7 February 2018),"Taylor, Eva Germaine Rimington (1879–1966)",Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,Oxford University Press,retrieved10 October2024
- ^Maddrell, Avril (2011).Complex Locations: Women's Geographical Work in the UK 1850-1970.John Wiley & Sons.ISBN9781444399585.
- ^"Biography of Eila M.J. Campbell — Department of Geography, Birkbeck, University of London".www.bbk.ac.uk.Archived fromthe originalon 14 November 2017.Retrieved12 November2017.
- ^Tyacke, Sarah (4 November 1994)."Obituary: Professor Eila Campbell MA FSA".Society for Nautical Research.Retrieved14 November2017.
- ^Tyacke, Sarah (January 1994). "Professor Eila Campbell MA, FSA (1915-1994)".The Mariner's Mirror.80(4): 387.doi:10.1080/00253359.1994.10656515.
- ^"Awards - IMCOS".IMCOS.Retrieved12 November2017.
- ^Hoonaard, Will C. van den (2013).Map Worlds: A History of Women in Cartography.Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press.ISBN9781554589340.
- ^"Eila Campbell lectures".Birkbeck. Archived fromthe originalon 14 November 2017.Retrieved14 November2017.