Series of 120 Ordnance Survey Maps for varying regions of Great Britain, c 1940s-c 1960s. The maps have been annotated with geological information by the geologist Frank Middlemiss.
MIDDLEMISS, Frank (1920-2014)
This material is held atQueen Mary Archives, University of London
- Reference
- GB 370 FM
- Dates of Creation
- c 1940s-c 1960s
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 3 boxes
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Dr Frank Alexander Middlemiss (1920-2014) was born on 25 March 1920 in Leyton, East London. Served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War, spending 14 months as a Prisoner of War in Italy and Germany in 1944-1945. Received a first class degree in Geology from Queen Mary College in 1950, and stayed on to pursue a PhD, completed in 1955. He taught in the Geology department at Queen Mary for the rest of his career, leading many field trips. He officially retired in 1982. He was made a Fellow in 1996.
Middlemiss's specialisms were Lower Cretaceous brachiopods, and the geology of the Weald and South East England, including the Lower Greensand Group and the chalk cliffs of Kent. He provided advice on the construction of the Channel Tunnel. He was a Fellow of the Geographical Society from 1950-1982. He was a member of the Geologists' Association and a member of several working groups of the International Union of Geological Societies.
Met his wife, Florence, in 1946 when they were both students at Queen Mary. They had two children, Stella and Joan.
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Acquisition Information
The maps were acquired by Nina Morgan, science writer, and donated as a gift to the Archives at Queen Mary in November 2017.
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