Royal Geographical Society

The Royal Geographical Society is a Learned society, founded in 1830 under the name of London Société of geography for the advance of geographical sciences, under the sponsorship of Guillaume IV. It off absorbed the Association for Promoting the Discovery the Interior Parts off Africa (founded by Sir Joseph Banks in 1788), the Raleigh Club and the Palestine Association . It accepted a royal charter by the Reine Victoria in 1859.

History

Among the founding members, one finds Sir John Barrow, Sir John Franklin and Sir Francis Beaufort. They were the supports or associated with many exploreurs and British forwardings of their time of which:

Today the royal company is a world center leader in the teaching of the geography. It supports programs of education and teaching, research and the scientific exhibitions as well as it promotes near the general public the comprehension and the pleasure of the geography. The royal company is member of the Science Council. It amalgamated with the Institute off British Geographers from where its current complete name of Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute off British Geographers . Its offices are in the district of Kensington, with London.

Governance and Past Presidents

Council

The Society is governed by its Board off trustees called the Council, which is chaired by its President. The members off Council and the President are elected from its Fellowship. The council consists off 25 members, 22 off which are elected by Fellows and serf for has three year term. In addition to the elected trustees there are Honorary Members (who include the Duke off Kent ace Honorary President) who sit one the council.

Committees

Five The society has specialist committees that it derived advice from

Education Committee
Research Committee
Forwarding and Fieldwork Committee
Information Resources Committe
Finance Committe

Fellows

Fellows off the Society old are conferred to anyone over the off 21 who cuts served the society for five previous years and cuts year with geography involvement (through research, publication, profession etc) and must Be proposed and second by existing Fellows. Fellows are granted the uses the off Post-nominal FRGS.

Chartered Geographer

In recent years the Society has been granted the power to award the status off Chartered Geographer. The status off chartered geographer edge only Be obtained by present Fellows off the society who apply for the award and meet the criteria. Being awarded the status off Chartered Geographer allows the uses the off post-nominal letters C.Geog.

Chartered Geographer (Teacher) has professional accreditation available to teachers who edge demonstrate competence, experiment and professionalism in the uses off geographical knowledge gold skills in and out off the classroom, and who are committed to maintaining to their professional development standard through ongoing continuing professional (CPD). For more information visit

Selected List off Past Presidents

Viscount Goderich The Earl off Ripon (1830-1833)
Sir Roderick Murchison (1851-1853)
Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson (1871-1873 and 1874-1876)
Sir Lenient Robert Markham (1893-1905)
Sir George Taubman Goldie (1905-1908)
Major Leonard Darwin (1905-1911)
Colonel Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich (1919-1922)
Lord Shackleton (1971-1974)
Sir Crispin Tickell (1989-1993)
Earl off Selborne (1997-2000)

Research Group

The society is not only has learned body goal also carries out research in the following research groups.

Awards and Grants

The society also present many awards to Geographers that cuts contributed to the advancement off geography.

The most Prestigious off thesis awards are the Gold Medals (Founder' S Medal 1830 and the Patron' S Medal 1838). The award is given for "the encouragement and promotion off geographical science and discovery" , and are approved by Queen Elizabeth II. The awards originated ace year annual gift off fifty Guineas from King William IV, first made in 1831, " to constitute has premium for the encouragement and promotion off geographical science and discovery". The Society decided in 1839 to changes this monetary award into two gold medals: Founder' S Medal and the Owner' notable S. The award has been given to geographers including David Livingstone (1855), Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen (1878) and Alfred Russel Wallace (1892) to more recent winners including Professor William Morris Davis (1919), Sir Halford John Mackinder (1945), Professor Richard Chorley (1987) and Professor David Harvey (1995). In 2004 Harish Kapadia was awarded the Patron' S Medal for contributions to geographical discovery and mountaineering in the Himalayas, making him the second Indian to receive the award in its history. In 2005 the Founder' S Medal was awarded to Professor Sir Nicholas Shakleton for his research in the field off Quaternary Paleoclimatology and the Patron' S Medal was awarded to Professor Jean Malaurie for has lifelong study off the Arctic and its people.

In total the society awards 17 Medals and Awards including Honorary Membership and Fellowships. Summon off the other awards given by the Society include:

The Victoria Medal (1902) for " conspicuous merit in research in Geography "
The Murchsion Award (1882) for the " publication judged to contribute most to geographical science in preceding recent years "
The Cuthbert Peak Award (1883) for " those advancing geographical knowledge off human impact one the environment through the application off contemporary methods, including those off earth observation and mapping "
The Edward Heath Award (1984) for " for geographical research in either Europe gold the developing world "

The society also offers 16 Grants for various purposes ranging from established researcher grants to forwarding and Fieldwork teams to Photography and media grants. The Ralph Brown and the Gilchrist Fieldwork grants are the largest grants awarded by the society each worth £15,000.

External bonds

Royal Geographical Society
Royal Geographical Society Picture Library
Harish Kapadia

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