Victoria Medal (geography)

The Victoria Medal is an award presented by the Royal Geographical Society. It is awarded "for conspicuous merit in research in geography" and has been given since 1902, in honour of the late Queen Victoria.^[1] Up until then, the society's Patron's Medal had alternatively been known as the "Victoria Medal", and the new medal resembled its original design.^[1]

Past recipients^[2]

• 2016: Ron Martin, for research excellence in regional economic development
• 2015: Stephen Daniels, for research excellence in cultural geography
• 2014: Susan Jane Smith, for research on geography^[3]
• 2013: Paul A. Longley, for research in geographic information science.^[4]
• 2012: Stuart Lane, for research in physical geography and hydrological modelling.^[5]
• 2011: John Lowe, for research in Quaternary Science.^[6]
• 2010: Rick Battarbee, for research in environmental change^[7]
• 2009: Philip Rees, for research on population geography and demography^[8]
• 2008: Linda McDowell, for research in socio-economic and feminist geography^[9]
• 2007: Peter Jackson, for research on social geography^[10]
• 2006: Jim Rose, for contributions to quaternary research^[11]
• 2005: Ray Hudson, for research on regional and industrial change in the UK and wider Europe^[12]
• 2004: Michael Watts, for research on political economy, culture and power^[13]
• 2003: Nigel Thrift^[14]
• 2002: Angela Gurnell^[2]
• 2001: Peter Dicken^[2]
• 2000: Desmond Walling^[15]
• 1999: Robin Butlin^[2]
• 1998: Ian Simmons^[2]
• 1997: David Lowenthal^[2]
• 1996: Ronald Abler, for his contribution to human geography and enhancement of links between British and American geography^[16][17]
• 1995: Helen Wallis^[2]
• 1994: Doreen Massey^[18]
• 1993: Norman Graves ^[19]
• 1992: John Goddard^[20]
• 1991: John Clarke
• 1990: Ron Johnston^[21]
• 1989: David Simonett^[22]
• 1988: Brian Berry^[2]
• 1987: Chauncy Harris^[2]
• 1986: Ren Mei'e^[2]
• 1985: J. T. Coppock
• 1984: Richard Hartshorne^[2]
• 1983: B. H. Farmer
• 1982: Helmut J. Jusatz
• 1981: Julius Büdel
• 1980: Jean Gottmann^[2]
• 1979: Torsten Hägerstrand^[2]
• 1978: Terence Armstrong
• 1977: Emrys Jones
• 1976: J.N. Jennings
• 1975: C. O. Sauer^[2]
• 1974: C.A. Fisher
• 1973: E. Estyn Evans ^[23]
• 1972: G. H. J. Daysh
• 1971: O. K. H. Spate
• 1970: Raleigh Ashlin Skelton^[2]
• 1969: Marcel Aurousseau
• 1968: Walter Christaller^[24]
• 1966: G. R. Crone^[25]
• 1964: J. N. L. Baker^[26]
• 1963: H. C. Darby^[27]
• 1962: Carl Troll^[28]
• 1960: J. A. Steers^[29]
• 1959: Gerald Seligman
• 1958: Roberto Almagià^[30]
• 1957: S. W. Wooldridge^[31]
• 1955: Sir John Russell ^[32], for his studies of soils and agriculture
• 1953: John Myres
• 1951: Charles Cotton
• 1950: Emmanuel de Martonne
• 1948: Frank Debenham^[33]
• 1947: Eva G. R. Taylor^[34]
• 1946: H. J. Fleure, for distinguished service in the advancement of geographical education and valuable researches into the human aspects of geography^[35]
• 1941: Harold Jeffreys
• 1940: O. G. S. Crawford
• 1938: Arthur Hinks^[36]
• 1936: Stanley Wells Kemp
• 1935: E. J. Wayland
• 1934: Edward Heawood
• 1932: A. P. Coleman
• 1930: Emmanuel de Margerie^[37]
• 1928: E. A. Reeves
• 1927: Charles Close^[38]
• 1924: J. F. Hayford
• 1922: John F. Baddeley
• 1920: H. St. J. L. Winterbotham
• 1919: J. W. Gregory^[39]
• 1917: John Keltie^[40]
• 1915: Hugh Robert Mill^[41]
• 1913: S. G. Burrard^[1] Indian Survey. For his distinguished contributions to geography and geodesy.
• 1912: George H. Darwin,^[1] for his investigations on tides and in geodesy.
• 1911: H. G. Lyons,^[1] Egyptian Survey. For his investigations of the River Nile and its basin
• 1909: Alexander Agassiz,^[1] for thirty years' work in oceanographical exploration
• 1906: W. M. Ramsay,^[1] for his investigation of the Ancient Geography of Asia Minor
• 1905: John George Bartholomew,^[42] for his efforts to raise the standard of cartography.
• 1903: Sven Hedin,^[43] for his exploration in Central Asia
• 1902: E. G. Ravenstein, for his efforts during 40 years to introduce scientific methods into the cartography of the United Kingdom^[1][44]

References

Royal Geographical Society's page of links to lists of past recipients.

1. Year-Book and Record. 1914 (PDF). London: The Royal Geographical Society. 1914. Retrieved 2015-04-21.
2. "Medals and Awards Recipients 1970-2015" (PDF). Royal Geographical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-07. (See pdf's page 4.)
3. "Mistress of Girton honoured by Royal Geographical Society". Girton College. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
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6. http://www.rgs.org/NR/exeres/F68F805D-8692-4469-AFED-9C86A1AFA837,frameless.htm?NRMODE=Published
7. "2009 Medals & Awards winners". Royal Geographical Society. Retrieved 2010-07-01.
8. "2009 Medals & Awards winners". Royal Geographical Society. Retrieved 2010-07-01.
9. "Medals and Awards 2008" (PDF). Royal Geographical Society. Retrieved 2010-07-01.
10. "Medals and Awards 2007" (PDF). Royal Geographical Society. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
11. "Medals and Awards 2006" (PDF). Royal Geographical Society. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
12. "Medals and Awards 2005" (PDF). Royal Geographical Society. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
13. "Medals and Awards 2004" (PDF). Royal Geographical Society. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
14. "Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nigel Thrift". University of Warwick. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
15. "Department of Geography - Staff". University of Exeter. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
16. "Biographies". International Geographical Union. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
17. Lynne Williams (7 June 1996). "Awards". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
18. "Staff Profile Prof Doreen Massey". Open University. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
19. www.independent.co.uk/news/people/royal-geographical-society-1490348.html
20. "Prof John Goddard Professor of Regional Development Studies". Newcastle University. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
21. "Prof Ron Johnston". University of Bristol. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
22. "David Simonett, Ph.D.". AAG Remote Sensing Specialty Group. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
23. "Emyr Estyn Evans (1905-1989)". Queen's University Belfast. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
24. Carol, Hans (1970). "Walter Christaller: A Personal Memoir". The Canadian Geographer. 14 (1): 67–69. doi:10.1111/j.1541-0064.1970.tb00007.x.
25. "Obituary: Gerald Roe Crone, 1899-1982". The Geographical Journal. 149 (2): 270–273. 1983. JSTOR 633657.
26. Scargill, Ian. "Baker, John Norman Leonard (1893–1971)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition) (subscription access). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2015-04-21.
27. "Darby, Prof. Sir (Henry) Clifford". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. 2004. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
28. "Troll, Carl (Germany 1899-1975) phytogeography". Western Kentucky University. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
29. Stoddart, D. R. (1988). "Obituary: James Alfred Steers, 1899-1987". Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 13 (1): 109–115. JSTOR 10.2307/622779.
30. George Kish. Roberto Almagia (1884–1962), in Geoffrey J. Martin (ed.), Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies 13, 1991, pp. 11–15.
31. Elizabeth Baigent (2004). "Wooldridge, Sidney William (1900–1963)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
32. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1791739?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
33. Walsh, G P (1993), "Debenham, Frank (1883 - 1965)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Melbourne University Press, 13, pp. 602–603, retrieved 2009-06-26
34. "Obituary: Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor". Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 45: 181–186. 1968. JSTOR 621401.
35. "Royal Geographical Society: Awards for 1945-46". Nature. 18 May 1946. p. 651. doi:10.1038/157651c0. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
36. "Arthur Hinks Collection". The Archives Hub. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
37. Hugh Clout, Emmanuel de Margerie (1862–1953), in Hayden Lorimer, Charles W. J. Withers (eds.), Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies 32, 2013, pp. 33–53.
38. "Sheetlines. The journal of THE CHARLES CLOSE SOCIETY for the Study of Ordnance Survey Maps" (PDF). Charles Close Society. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
39. "Obituary Notices: John Walter Gregory, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S.". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 52: 460–462. 1933. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
40. s:The Times/1927/Obituary/John Scott Keltie
41.  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Mill, Hugh Robert". Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York.
42. "The Bartholomew Archive". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
43. Weinberg, Roberto F; Green, Owen R (2002), "The Central Asiatic (Tibet, Xinjiang, Pamir) petroligical collections of Sven Hedin (1865-1952) - Swedish explorer and adventurer" (PDF), Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Pergamon, 20, pp. 297–308, doi:10.1016/s1367-9120(01)00060-8, retrieved 2009-06-26
44. "Royal Geographical Society". The Times (36778). London. 27 May 1902. p. 11.