Kenneth Mason

Military Person

1887 – 1976

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Who was Kenneth Mason?

Kenneth Mason MC was a soldier and geographer notable as the first statutory professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. His work surveying the Himalayas was rewarded in 1927 with a Royal Geographic Society Founder's Medal, the citation reading for his connection between the of surveys of India and Russian Turkestan, and his leadership of the Shakshagam Expedition.

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Born
Sep 10, 1887
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Education
  • Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Died
1976

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on July 23, 2013

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