MACKINDER SIR HALFORD JOHN 1861-1947 KT DIRECTOR LSE

Letters to Mackinder concerning the National Theatre and the published text of a speech by Mackinder to the House of Commons.

Sir Halford John Mackinder 1861-1947

Mackinder was educated at Gainsborough Grammar School, Epsom College and Christ Church, Oxford. He was President of Oxford Union Society, 1883. He was called to the bar (Inner Temple), 1886. He was Reader in Geography at Oxford University 1887-1905. From 1900-1925 Mackinder was Reader and afterwards Professor of Geography at the University of London. He was Principal of University College, Reading 1892-1903. Mackinder was President of the Geographical Section, British Association in 1895 and 1931. In 1899 he made the first ascent of Mount Kenya. He contested (L) Warwick in 1900. From 1903-1908 he was Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Mackinder was also Senator of London University 1904-1908. He contest the Hawick Burghs (LU) in 1909. He was MP (U) for Camlachie Division, Glasgow from 1910 to 1922, and also the British High Commissioner for South Russia 1919-1920. Mackinder was Chairman of both the Imperial Shipping Committee 1920-1945, and the Imperial Economic Committee 1926-1931. He was also a member of Royal Commissions on Income Tax (1919), Awards to Inventors (1919), Food Prices (1925) and the Montagu War savings Committee (1916). From 1933 to 1936 he was Vice-President of the Royal Geographical Society. Mackinder was knighted in 1920.

His publications include:

• Britain and the British Seas(2nd edition, 1907)
• The Rhine, its Valley and History(1908)
• Elementary Studies in Geography(18th edition, 1930)
• Eight Lectures on India(1910)
• Democratic Ideals and Reality(1919)

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