Bramwell William "Dick" Hodder (15 November 1923 – 12 September 2006) was a British geographer and academic, specialising in African studies. Having served in the British Army during the Second World War, he studied geography at

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and the University of London. He then began a long academic career stretching across three continents: he was a

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at the

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(1952–1956), the University of Ibadan in Nigeria (1956–1963), the University of Glasgow in Scotland (1963–1964), before joining Queen Mary College, University of London in England in 1964 as a Reader. He moved to the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies in 1970 as Professor of Geography, retiring in 1983 and being appointed Emeritus Professor. Hodder was married three times. Among his five children and two step-daughters is the archaeologist and academic

Ian Hodder Ian Richard Hodder (born 23 November 1948, in Bristol) is a British archaeologist and pioneer of postprocessualist theory in archaeology that first took root among his students and in his own work between 1980–1990. At this time he had such ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hodder, Dick 1923 births 2006 deaths British geographers British Africanists Regional geographers Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford Alumni of the University of London National University of Singapore faculty University of Ibadan faculty Academics of the University of Glasgow Academics of Queen Mary University of London Academics of SOAS University of London British Army personnel of World War II