Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Bart, KCB 1792-1871

Gilbert, Edmund W.; Goudie, Andrew

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“…I looked into Sir Roderick Murchison's distinguished career before accepting the award and found his work as a keystone figure in geography is well-documented (see e.g., Gilbert & Goudie, 1971). I was relieved to find that he did not fund that work through the trade and possession of enslaved black people.…”

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards celebration 2020 and 2021

Clifford

Viles

Eavis³

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Geographical Journal

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The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) annual Medals and Awards recognise achievements in researching, communicating and teaching a wide range of geographical knowledge. The speeches and citations are a record of both the 2020 and 2021 celebrations, which were delayed and combined because of COVID‐19, with contributions from Heather Viles, Andy Eavis, Rita Gardner, Jonathan Rigg, Chris Philo, Peter Kraftl, Patricia Noxolo, Emma Mawdsley and Nina Laurie. The event concluded with comments from the Society’s Patron, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal. The speeches included comments on inspirational students and teachers; the importance of collaboration, of equity and inclusivity; understanding places, making connections and crossing boundaries; earth‐writing and earth‐righting.

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Section: Murchison Award 2021mentioning

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards celebration 2020 and 2021

Clifford

Viles

Eavis³

et al. 2022

Geographical Journal

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“…In his 1857 inaugural speech, he explained that the object of the Society was not just the exploration of unknown countries and the cultivation of physical geography, but also comparative geography, or what is today called regional geography. 38 He was a prominent advocate of exploring the physical geography of Africa, and especially concerned with African discoveries, and it was he who decided to send Clements Markham on the expedition. As well as being secretary of the RGS, Markham had a background in the Royal Navy and worked in the India Office.…”

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“…39 Murchison was 'a man born to fill chairs'; not only he was one of the founding fathers of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (Section E: Geography) and of the Hakluyt Society, he was also a Trustee of the British Museum. 40 As such, he knew Charles Thomas Newton, who, after working for ten years as an assistant in the Department of Antiquities at the Museum, had in 1852 obtained an appointment as vice consul to the Greek island of Lesvos, then part of the western boundary of the Ottoman Empire. Whilst stationed there and then in neighboring Rhodes, Newton had selected, trained, and tasked a number of local colleagues to help in the search for antiquities.…”

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Planned Plunder, the British Museum, and the 1868 Maqdala Expedition

Gunning

Challis

2023

Hist. J.

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In 1863, Emperor Tewodros II of Abyssinia (present-day Ethiopia and Eritrea) took a British consul hostage; five years later, the British sent a punitive expedition. This military expedition continued the brutal tradition of earlier ones and shaped later campaigns in Sudan and West Africa in the 1890s. Typically, a large contingent of non-military personnel accompanied these expeditions and the 1868 expedition to Maqdala was no different. What was unique for Maqdala was the inclusion of a member of staff from the British Museum. We argue that a letter from Charles Thomas Newton, keeper of the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, to Sir Roderick Murchison, the president of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), illustrates that the plunder of cultural heritage was planned. We also argue that the plunder did not go to plan. The inclusion of a man from the museum made this expedition unique in the museum's history. The acquisition of these objects through colonial violence constitutes a strong moral reason for their repatriation from the British Museum and the numerous institutions in which they are dispersed. Understanding the planning involved in their plunder illustrates the entanglement of politics and imperialism with scientific and cultural institutions that constituted the backbone of Victorian Britain.

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1.3 Major Themes in British and European Geomorphology in the Nineteenth Century

Goudie

2013

Treatise on Geomorphology

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Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Bart, KCB 1792-1871

Cited by 7 publications

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards celebration 2020 and 2021

Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards celebration 2020 and 2021

Planned Plunder, the British Museum, and the 1868 Maqdala Expedition

1.3 Major Themes in British and European Geomorphology in the Nineteenth Century

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