Vaughan Cornish (22 December 1862 - 1 May 1948) was an English geographer. He was the son of the vicar of

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, Charles John Cornish (1834-1913) and Anne Charlotte Cornish (1831-1887). His brother was

Charles John Cornish Charles John Cornish (28 September 1858 – 30 January 1906) was an English naturalist and author. Life Born on 28 September 1858 at Salcombe House, near Sidmouth, the residence of his grandfather, Charles John Cornish, J.P., D.L., was eldest son ...

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��, rev. David Matless, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006, accessed 11 July 2015. He was educated at home before attending St Paul's School, London, when he was 17. He studied chemistry at the

Victoria University of Manchester The Victoria University of Manchester, usually referred to as simply the University of Manchester, was a university in Manchester, England. It was founded in 1851 as Owens College. In 1880, the college joined the federal Victoria University. Afte ...

, graduating with a first class BSc (1888). He then gained a MSc (1892) and a DSc (1901). He visited the building of the

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in 1907, documented in his ''The Panama Canal and its Makers'' (1909). He visited the site again in 1910. He was interested in the strategy and political geography of the

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, hoping that British emigration to the Empire would promote the future interests of the "white races". In 1906 he was elected as a Honorary Member of the

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. In 1928-29, he served as the President of the Geographical Association in the UK.

Works

*''The Panama Canal and its Makers'' (1909). *''Waves of the Sea and other Water Waves'' (1910). *''The Travels of Ellen Cornish: being the Memoir of a Pilgrim of Science'' (1913). *''The Waves of Sand and Snow'' (1914). *''Naval and Military Geography'' (1916). *''Imperial Military Geography'' (1920). *''A Geography of Imperial Defence'' (1922). *''The Great Capitals'' (1923). *''National Parks and the Heritage of Scenery'' (1930). *''The Poetic Impression of Natural Scenery'' (1931). *''The Scenery of England'' (1932). *''Borderlands of Language in Europe'' (1933). *''Ocean Waves and Kindred Geophysical Phenomena'' (1934). *''Scenery and the Sense of Sight'' (1935). *''The Preservation of our Scenery'' (1937). *''The Farm upon the Cliff'' (1939). *''The Scenery of Sidmouth'' (1940). *''Historic Thorn Trees in the British Isles'' (1941). *''A Family of Devon'' (1942). *''The Beauties of Scenery'' (1943). *''The Photography of Scenery'' (1946). *''Geographical Essays'' (1946). *''The Churchyard Yew and Immortality'' (1946). *''Kestell, Clapp and Cornish'' (1947). *''Sketches of Scenery in England and Abroad'' (1949).

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The Kumatologist: Vaughan Cornish’s Wave Studies (1910–14)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cornish, Vaughan 1862 births 1948 deaths English geographers People from Mid Suffolk District Alumni of the Victoria University of Manchester Members of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society Fellows of the Geological Society of London

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