Founder's Medal
the obverse and reverse of a gold medallion. The obverse side has a portrait of King William IV. The reverse side shows a figure of Britannia, wearing a helmet and standing by a sextant and globe. She is holding a wreath in her outstretched right hand and a map in the left.
Founder's Medal awarded to Kenneth Mason
Awarded forthe encouragement and promotion of geographical science and discovery
Sponsored bySovereign of the United Kingdom
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byRoyal Geographical Society
Formerly calledRoyal Premium
First awarded1832

The Founder's Medal is a medal awarded annually by the Royal Geographical Society, upon approval of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, to individuals for "the encouragement and promotion of geographical science and discovery".

Foundation

From its foundation, the society received an annual grant from the Sovereign of the United Kingdom for awards with royal approval. The medal originated from an annual donation starting in 1831 of 50 guineas from King William IV.[1] The award was instituted as the Royal Premium or Royal Award, an annual cash prize.[2] In 1836, the society with agreement from King William IV, decided to allocate half of the premium to a 'Gold Medal'.[3] This would be awarded by the Sovereign, on the advice of the Council of the Royal Geographical Society.[2] Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne before the first gold medal, which was designed in coordination with King William IV, was awarded.[2] Queen Victoria announced her intention of continuing the grant commenced by her uncle.[4] The council ultimately decided to divide the grant into two gold medals of equal standing; the Founder's Medal in memory of the founding patron King William IV and the Patron's Medal with the image of Queen Victoria as the active royal patron of the society.[5]

Design

The medal, like the Patron's Medal, is a gold medallion designed by William Wyon, Chief Engraver of the Royal Mint. The obverse side has a portrait of William IV. The reverse side shows a figure of Britannia, wearing a helmet and standing by a sextant and globe. She is holding a wreath in her outstretched right hand and a map in the left. The name of the recipient is engraved on the edge of the medal. The medal was struck in gold until 1974. From 1975 onwards it has been struck in silver-gilt. Exceptionally, on account of wars, the medals of 1918−21 and 1940 were struck in bronze.[6]

Award history

While generally awarded annually, the Founder's Medal was not awarded in the years 1850, 1851, 1855, 1913, 1943 and 1944. In 1850, the Patron's Medal was awarded but instead of awarding a Founder's Medal the council presented David Livingstone with a chronometer watch for 'his journey to the great lake of Ngami'.[7] In 1851, the council awarded no gold medals and instead awarded 25 guinea prizes to each of Georg August Wallin and Thomas Brunner.[7] In 1855, the Patron's Medal was awarded but instead of awarding a Founder's Medal the council presented Charles John Andersson with a set of surveying instruments (containing a sextant and stand, artificial horizon, watch, thermometers and measuring tapes).[8][7] Awarding a prize funded by the annual royal grant that was not a medal recognized the valuable work of the recipient while concurrently indicating "the service had not been of sufficient importance to justify the award of a gold medal, the highest award at the disposal of the society."[9] In 1913, the Patron's Medal was awarded but instead of awarding a Founder's Medal the council presented an engraved casket to Kathleen Scott containing the Patron's Medal and the Special Antarctic Medal awarded to her late husband Robert Falcon Scott.[10][11] No awards were made in 1943 or 1944 on account of the Second World War.

List of recipients

Year Name Image Description Award Rationale
1832 Richard Lemon Lander
Cornish explorer For the discovery of the course of the River Niger or Quorra, and its outlets in the Gulf of Benin
1833 John Biscoe English mariner and explorer For the discovery of the land now named "Enderby's Land" and "Graham's Land" in the Antarctic Ocean
1834 John Ross
Scottish Royal Navy officer and polar explorer For his discovery of Boothia Felix and King William Land and for his famous sojourn of four winters in the Arctic
1835 Alexander Burnes
Explorer, political officer in British India (1805-1841) For his remarkable and important journeys through Persia
1836 George Back
British Royal Navy admiral (1796–1878) For his recent discoveries in the Arctic, and his memorable journey down the Great Fish River
1837 Robert Fitzroy
English Vice-Admiral of the Royal Navy and scientist (1805–1865) For his survey of the coasts of South America, from the Rio de la Plata to Guayaquil in Peru
1838 Francis Rawdon Chesney
British Army general For valuable materials in comparative and physical geography in Syria, Mesopotamia and the delta ofSusiana
1839 Thomas Simpson
Scottish arctic explorer For tracing the hitherto unexplored coast to the west between Return Reef and point Barrow, in 1837; and during the past year has discovered 90 miles of coast eastward from Point Turnagain of Franklin, on the norther shore of America.
1840 Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet
British politician (1810-1895) l for his travels and researches in Susiana and Persian Kurdistan, and for the light thrown by hom on the comparative geography of Western Asia.
1841 Henry Raper British Royal Navy officer (1799-1859) For excellent work on Practical Navigation and Nautical Astronomy
1842 James Clark Ross
British explorer and naval officer (1800–1862) For his brilliant achievement at the South Pole, to within less than 12° of which he safely navigated hisvessels, discovering a great Antarctic continent
1843 Edward John Eyre
British explorer and colonial administrator (1815–1901) For his enterprising and extensive explorations in Australia, under circumstances of peculiar difficulty
1844 William John Hamilton British geologist (1805-1867) For valuable researches in Asia Minor
1845 Charles Tilstone Beke
British geographer For his exploration in Abyssinia
1846 Paweł Strzelecki
Polish explorer and geologist For exploration in the south eastern portion of Australia
1847 Charles Sturt
Australian explorer (1795-1869) For explorations in Australia, and especially for his journey fixing the limit of Lake Torrens and penetrating into the heart of the continent to lat. 24° 30'S, long. 138° 0'E
1848 James Brooke
White Rajah of Sarawak (1803-1868) For his expedition to Borneo, and the zeal he has shown in promoting geographical discovery
1849 Austen Henry Layard
British politician (1817–1894) For important contributions to Asiatic Geography, interesting researches in Mesopotamia, and for his discovery of the remains of Nineveh
1852 John Rae
Scottish explorer (1813-1893) For his survey of Boothia undermost severe privations and for his very important contributions to the Geography of the Arctic
1853 Francis Galton
English polymath: geographer, statistician, eugenicist For fitting out and conducting in Expedition to explore the centre of Southern Africa
1854 William Henry Smyth
English naval officer and hydrographer (1788-1865) For his valuable Maritime Surveys in the Mediterranean
1856 Elisha Kent Kane
American explorer and military medical officer For services and discoveries in the Polar Regions during the American Expeditions in search of Sir JohnFranklin
1857 Augustus Charles Gregory
Australian explorer (1819-1905) For extensive and important explorations in Western and Northern Australia
1858 Richard Collinson
British Royal Navy admiral (1811-1883) For discoveries in the Arctic Regions
1859 Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat For his various exploratory enterprises, and especially for his perilous expedition with Captain. J. H. Speke to the great lakes in Eastern Africa
1860 Jane Franklin
British explorer For self-sacrificing perseverance in sending out expeditions to ascertain the fate of her husband
1861 John Hanning Speke
British military officer and explorer For his eminent geographical discoveries in Africa, and especially his discovery of the great lake Victoria Nyanza
1862 Robert O'Hara Burke
Australian explorer In remembrance of that gallant explorer who with his companion Wills, perished after having traversed the continent of Australia
1863 Francis Thomas Gregory
English-born Australian explorer and politician (1821–1888) For successful explorations in Western Australia
1864 James Augustus Grant
Scottish explorer and collector (1827 – 1892) For his journey across Eastern Equatorial Africa with Captain Speke
1865 Thomas George Montgomerie
English surveyor who worked in India (1830-1878) For his great trigonometrical journey from the plains of the Punjab to the Karakoram Range
1866 Thomas Thomson Scottish doctor and botanist (1817-1878) For his researches in the Western Himalayas and Thibet
1867 Aleksei Butakov
Russian admiral and explorer For being first to launch and navigate ships in the Sea of Aral and for his survey of the mouths of the Oxus
1868 August Heinrich Petermann
German cartographer (1822-1878) For his important services as a Writer and Cartographer and Science, and for his well-known publication the Geographische Mitteilungen which for twelve years has greatly aided the process of Geography.
1869 Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
Finland Swedish baron, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer (1832–1901) For designing and carrying out the Swedish expeditions to Spitzbergen ... whereby great additions havebeen made to our acquitance with zoology, botany, geology and meteorology
1870 George W. Hayward British explorer For his journey into Eastern Turkistan, and for reaching the Pamir Steppe
1871 Roderick Murchison, 1st Baronet
geologist (1792-1871) Who for 40 years watched over the Society with more than paternal solicitude, and has at length placed it among the foremost of our scientific Societies
1872 Henry Yule
Scottish orientalist For eminent services to Geography
1873 Ney Elias
British explorer (1844-1897) For his enterprise and ability in surveying the course of the Yellow River, and for his journey through Western Mongolia
1874 Georg August Schweinfurth
German explorer and scientist (1836-1925) For his explorations in Africa
1875 Carl Georg Ludwig Wilhelm Weyprecht
Austrian explorer (1838-1881) For his enterprise and ability in command of expeditions to Spitzbergen and Nova Zembla
1876 Verney Lovett Cameron
traveller from England For his journey across Africa from Zanzibar to Benguela, and his survey of Lake Tanganyika
1877 George Nares
British naval officer and Arctic explorer (1831-1915) For having commanded the Arctic Expedition of 1875/6, during which ships and sledge parties reached a higher Northern latitude than had previously been attained
1878 Ferdinand von Richthofen
German traveller, geographer and scientist (1833-1905) For his extensive travels and scientific explorations in China
1879 Nikolay Przhevalsky
Russian soldier, explorer, & geographer (1839-1888) For successive expeditions and route-surveys in Mongolia and the high plateau of Northern Tibet
1880 Louis Palander
Swedish admiral For his services in connection with the Swedish Arctic Expeditions in the Vega
1881 Alexandre de Serpa Pinto
Explorer and soldier For his journey across Africa during which he explored 500 miles of new country
1882 Gustav Nachtigal
German explorer of Central and West Africa For his journeys through the Eastern Sahara
1883 Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist, lichenologist, and surgeon (1817–1911) For eminent services to scientific Geography
1884 Archibald Ross Colquhoun
Rhodesian politician (1848-1914) For his journey from Canton to the Irrawadi
1885 Joseph Thomson
Scottish geologist and explorer For his zeal, promptitude and success during two expeditions into East Central Africa
1886 Adolphus Greely
American army officer and polar explorer For having so considerably added to our knowledge of the shores of the Polar Sea and the interior of Grinnell Land
1887 Thomas Holdich
English geographer, writer and soldier; surveyed the Indian frontier, and Chilean-Argentine border For zeal and devotion in carrying out surveys of Afghanistan
1888 Clements Markham
British geographer (1830-1916) In acknowledgment or the value or his numerous contributions to geographical literature ... on his retirement from the Secretaryship of the Society after 25 years’ service
1889 Arthur Douglas Carey British traveller in Central Asia (?-1936) For his remarkable journey in Central Asia during which he travelled 4750 miles through regions never visited by an Englishman
1890 Emin Pasha
German colonial governor (1840-1892) For the great services he rendered to Geography during his twelve years’ administration of the Equatorial Province of Egypt
1891 James Hector
Scottish born New Zealand geologist, naturalist, and surgeon (1834-1907) For investigations pursued as Naturalist to the Palliser expedition
1892 Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823-1913) The well-known naturalist and traveller and co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of the theory of natural selection, in recognition of the high geographical value of his great works
1893 Frederick Selous
British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist In recognition of twenty years’ exploration and surveys in South Africa
1894 Hamilton Bower
British general For his remarkable journey across Tibet, from west to east
1895 John Murray
Scottish oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist For services to physical Geography, especially oceanography, and for his work on board the Challenger
1896 William MacGregor
British colonial governor and administrator (1846-1919) For services to Geography in British New Guinea, in exploring, mapping and giving information on the natives
1897 Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky
Russian geographer, art collector and statistician (1827-1914) For his long-continued efforts in promoting Russian exploration in Central Asia
1898 Sven Hedin
Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator (1865-1952) For important exploring work in Central Asia
1899 Louis Gustave Binger
French explorer (1856-1936) For valuable work within the great bend of the Niger
1900 Henry Hugh Peter Deasy
British Army officer and businessman (1866-1947) For exploring and survey work in Central Asia
1901 Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi
Italian explorer For his journey to the summit of Mount St. Elias, and for his Arctic voyage in the Stella Polare
1902 Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard
British colonial administrator (1858-1945) For persistent attention to African Geography
1903 Douglas William Freshfield
British lawyer, mountaineer and author In recognition of his valuable contributions to our knowledge of the Caucasus
1904 Harry Johnston
British explorer, botanist, linguist and colonial administrator (1858-1927) For his many valuable services towards the exploration of Africa
1905 Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington
British politician (1856-1937) For explorations in the mountain regions of Spitsbergen
1906 Alfred Grandidier
French naturalist and explorer The veteran French savant who for forty years has devoted himself to the exploration of Madagascar, and for his monumental work on the island in 52 large quarto volumes
1907 Francisco Moreno
Argentinian explorer and naturalist (1852–1919) For extensive explorations in the Patagonian Andes
1908 Boyd Alexander
British Army officer, explorer and ornithologist (1873-1910) For his three years’ journey across Africa from the Niger to the Nile
1909 Aurel Stein
Hungarian-British archaeologist (1862-1943) For his extensive explorations in Central Asia, and in particular his archaeological work
1910 Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen
English geologist, topographer and surveyor For geographical discoveries and surveys along the North-eastern frontier of India, especially his pioneerexploring in the Karakoram
1911 Pyotr Kozlov
Russian explorer For explorations in the Gobi desert, Northern Tibet and Mongolia
1912 Charles Montagu Doughty
British poet (1843-1926) For his remarkable exploration in Northern Arabia, and for his classic work in which the results weredescribed
1914 Albrecht Penck
German geologist and geographer For his advancement of almost every branch of scientific geography, and in particular his idea of anInternational map of the world on the millionth scale
1915 Douglas Mawson
Australian geologist and explorer of the Antarctic (1882-1958) For his conduct of the Australian Antarctic Expedition which achieved highly important scientific results
1916 Percy Fawcett
British explorer, anthropologist and archaeologist For his contributions to the mapping of South America
1917 David George Hogarth
British archaeologist (1862-1927) For explorations in Asiatic Turkey
1918 Gertrude Bell
English writer, traveller, political officer, archaeologist (1868-1926) For her important explorations and travels in Asia Minor, Syria, Arabia and on the Euphrates
1919 Evan Maclean Jack British cartographer (1873-1951) For his geographical work on the Western Front
1920 St John Philby
English Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence officer For his two journeys in South Central Arabia
1921 Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Canadian-born explorer (1879–1962) For his distinguished services in the exploration of the Arctic Ocean
1922 Charles Howard-Bury British soldier, explorer, botanist and Conservative politician (1883-1963) For his distinguished services in command of the Mount Everest Expedition
1923 Knud Rasmussen
Danish explorer and anthropologist For exploration and research in the Arctic regions
1924 Ahmed Hassanein Pasha
رئيس الديوان الملكي سابقاً Egyptian politician and geographic explorer For his journey to Kufra and Darfur
1925 Charles Granville Bruce
British mountain climber For lifelong geographical work in the exploration of the Himalaya and his leadership of the Mount Everest Expedition of 1922
1926 Edward Felix Norton British army officer and mountaineer For his distinguished leadership of the Mount Everest Expedition, 1924, and his ascent to 28,100 feet
1927 Kenneth Mason
British geographer For his connection between the surveys of India and Russian Turkestan, and his leadership of the Shakshagam Expedition
1928 Tom George Longstaff British explorer (1875-1964) For long-continued geographical work in the Himalaya
1929 Francis Rodd, 2nd Baron Rennell
British Army general (1895-1978) For his journeys in the Sahara and his studies of the Tuareg people
1930 Frank Kingdon-Ward British botanist (1885-1958) For geographical exploration, and work on botanical distribution in China and Tibet
1931 Bertram Thomas Civil servant and explorer For geographical work in Arabia and his successful crossing of the Rub al Khali
1932 Gino Watkins
British Arctic explorer For his work in the Arctic Regions, especially as leader of the British Arctic Air Route Expedition
1933 James Wordie
Scottish polar explorer For work in Polar explorations
1934 Hugh Ruttledge
British colonial administrator For his journeys in the Himalayas and his leadership of the Mount Everest Expedition, 1933
1935 Ralph Alger Bagnold British Army officer (1896-1990) For journeys in the Libyan Desert
1936 George W. Murray surveyor (1885-1966), working in Egypt For explorations and surveys in the deserts of Sinai and Eastern Egypt, and his studies of the Badawin tribes
1937 Clinton Gresham Lewis surveyor (1885-1978) For surveys in Iraq, Syria and the Irrawaddy Delta, and for his work on the Afghan and Turco-Iraq Boundary Commissions
1938 John Rymill
Australian explorer (1905–1968) For the valuable scientific work of his British Grahamland Expedition
1939 Arthur Mortimer Champion surveyor and administrator in British Kenya (1885-1950) For his surveys of the Turkana Province (Kenya) and the volcanoes south of lake Rudolf
1940 Doreen Ingrams Ingrams [née Shortt], Doreen Constance (1906–1997), actress and traveller For exploration and studies in the Hadhramaut
1940 Harold Ingrams British colonial official (1897-1973) For exploration and studies in the Hadhramaut
1941 Pat Clayton British intelligence officer For his surveys in the Libyan desert, and his application of his experience to desert warfare.
1942 Freya Madeline Stark
British travel writer (1893-1993) For her travels in the East and her account of them
1945 Charles Camsell
Canadian politician and geologist (1876-1958) For his contributions to the geology of the North
1946 Edward Aubrey Glennie For his work on geodesy in India and his contributions to mapping in the Far East
1947 Martin Hotine
British Army officer (1898-1968) For research work in Air Survey and for his cartographic work
1948 Wilfred Thesiger
British explorer (1910-2003) For contributions to the Geography of Southern Arabia and for his crossing of the Rub al Khali desert
1949 Laurence Dudley Stamp
British geographer (1898-1966) For his work in organising the Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain and his application of Geography to National planning
1950 George F. Walpole director of the Department of Lands and Survey, Jordan For contributions to the mapping of the Western Desert of Egypt
1951 Vivian Fuchs
British explorer For his contributions to Antarctic exploration and his research as leader of the survey 1948-50
1952 Bill Tilman
British explorer For exploratory work among the mountains of East Africa and Central Asia
1953 Patrick Douglas Baird glaciologist (1912-1984) For explorations in the Canadian Arctic
1954 John Hunt, Baron Hunt
British mountaineer, explorer and army officer (1910-1998) Leader of the British Mount Everest Expedition
1955 John Kirtland Wright American geographer For services in the development of geographical research and exploration
1956 John Schjelderup Giæver Norwegian writer Leader of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition, for contributions to Polar exploration
1957 Ardito Desio
Italian explorer For geographical exploration and surveys in the Himalayas
1958 Paul Siple
American explorer (1908-1968) For contributions to Antarctic exploration and research
1959 William Anderson
United States naval officer For the first trans-Polar submarine voyage in command of USS Nautilus
1960 Phillip Law Australian scientist and explorer For Antarctic exploration and research
1961 Mikhail Somov
Soviet ocenographer and polar explorer For Antarctic exploration and research
1962 Edwin McDonald
United States Navy captain For coastal explorations in the Bellingshausen Sea (Antarctica)
1963 Jacques Cousteau
French Naval Officer who co-invented open circuit demand scuba For underwater exploration and research
1964 Louis Leakey
British archaeologist and naturalist For palaeographical exploration and discoveries in East Africa
1965 Fred Roots geologist and explorer (1923–2016) For Polar exploration and research, with special reference to the Canadian Arctic
1966 Edred John Henry Corner English botanist and mycologist (1906-1996) For botanical exploration in North Borneo and the Solomon Islands
1967 Cláudio Villas-Bôas
Brazilian sertanista (1916-1998) For contributions to exploration and development in the Mato Grosso
1967 Orlando Villas Bôas
Brazilian anthropologist For contributions to exploration and development in the Mato Grosso
1968 W. Brian Harland British geologist (1917-2003) For Arctic exploration and research
1969 Rodolfo Panzarini naval officer and Antarctic explorer For services to Antarctic exploration and research and to international co-operation in Antarctic science
1970 Wally Herbert British polar explorer (1934-2007) For Arctic and Antarctic exploration and surveys
1971 George Deacon British oceanographer and chemist (1906-1984) For oceanographical research and exploration
1972 George Stephen Ritchie Royal Navy admiral (1914-2012) For hydrographical charting and oceanographical exploration
1973 Norman Falcon British geologist (1904-1996) Leader, the RGS’s Musandam [North Oman] Expedition. For contributions to the geographical history of thePersian Gulf region
1974 Chris Bonington
British mountaineer For mountain explorations
1975 Laurence Kirwan British archaeologist and geographer For contributions to the geographical history of the Nubian Nile valley and Eastern Africa, and for services toexploration
1976 Brian Birley Roberts
polar expert and ornithologist (1912-1978) For Polar exploration, and for contributions to Antarctic research and political negotiation
1977 Michael John Wise
geographer (1918-2015) For economic Geography, and for his contributions to international understanding in geographical teaching
1978 Reginald Llewellyn Brown British military officer and surveyor, Director-General of the Ordnance Survey (1895-1983) For services to the science of map-making
1979 David Stoddart geographer For contributions to geomorphology, the study of coral reefs and the history of academic Geography
1980 William Richard Mead British geographer (1915-2014)
1981 Keith John Miller mechanical engineer, explorer and mountaineer (1932-2006)
1982 Michael Ward British surgeon and mountaineer (1925-2005) For high-altitude medical research and leadership of the British Mount Kongur Expedition
1983 Peter Scott
British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer and sportsman (1909-1989)
1984 Ranulph Fiennes
British explorer (born 1944)
1985 David Attenborough
British broadcaster and naturalist
1986 Tim Severin
British explorer, historian, writer (1940-2020)
1987 Anthony Seymour Laughton British oceanographer
1988 Peter Hall
town planner, urbanist and geographer (1932-2014)
1989 Monica Kristensen Solås Norwegian explorer
1990 John Hemming
Canadian explorer
1991 Andrew Goudie British geographer
1992 Alan Wilson British mathematician and geographer For contributions to the study of urban and regional systems.
1993 Kenneth J. Gregory British geographer (1938–2020) For contributions to hydrology and geomorphology.
1994 Ronald Urwick Cooke British geographer for contribution to geomorphology.
1995 Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook zoologist, environmental biologist and author (1933-), chairman of the Institute for European Environmental Policy
1996 John Woods British oceanographer for contributions to oceanography
1997 Tony Wrigley
British historical demographer
1998 Robert J. Bennett economic geographer (1948-)
1999 Mike Kirkby British geographer For contributions to the development of processed-based and modelling approaches in geomorphology
2000 Brian Robson geographer at the University of Manchester For contributions to urban geography and geographical perspectives to urban policy
2001 William L. Graf American geographer (1947-2019) For contributions to research on dryland river processes, and the interactions of science and public policy
2002 Bruno Messerli
Swiss geographer and university professor (1931-2019) For contributions to mountain research and the public awareness of mountain issues
2003 Michael Frank Goodchild
professor of geographic information science For contributions to geographical information science
2004 Leszek Starkel Polish geographer For advancing international understanding of palaeohydrology and geomorphology
2005 Nicholas Shackleton British geologist (1937-2006) For research on Quaternary palaeoclimatology
2006 Derek Gregory British geographer For international leadership of research in human geography and social theory
2007 Roger G. Barry British-born American climatologist and geographer (1935-2018) For international leadership of research on climate and climate change
2008 Julian A. Dowdeswell
British glaciologist For the encouragement, development and promotion of glaciology
2009 Alan R. H. Baker Geographer at the University of Cambridge (1938-) For contributions to historical geography
2010 Diana Liverman
geographer and science writer For encouraging, developing and promoting understanding of the human dimensions of climate change
2011 David N. Livingstone British academic For the encouragement and promotion of historical geography
2012 Charles W. J. Withers Scottish linguist and geographer For the encouragement and development of historical and cultural geography
2013 Keith S. Richards geographer at the University of Cambridge For the encouragement and development of physical geography and fluvial geomorphology
2014 Geoffrey Boulton British geologist For the development and promotion of glaciology
2015 Michael Batty
British academic For development and promotion of the geographical science of cities
2016 Michael Storper
economic and urban geographer For scholarship and leadership in human and economic geography
2017 Gordon Conway
British ecologist For the enhancement and promotion of agricultural development in Asia and Africa
2018 Paul Rose British explorer and TV presenter For scientific expeditions and enhancing public understanding
2019 Trevor J. Barnes
Canadian geographer For sustained excellence and pioneering developments in the field of economic geography
2020 Heather A. Viles geographer For her excellence in establishing the field of biogeomorphology
2021 Andy Eavis speleologist & mining engineer For significant contribution in leading speleological expeditions, exploring and recording some of the largest caves in the world for over 50 years
2022 David Hempleman-Adams
British industrialist and adventurer For enabling science through expeditions, and inspiring younger generations of geographers
2023 Andrew W. Mitchell zoologist For his lifetime’s contribution to protect tropical rainforests and combat climate change

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