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Kenneth Guy Messenger (1920-1993), 1940 - 1993

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3296/Maps/CCSA.KGM

Scope and Contents

This archive contains the research papers for this project, also proof copies and post-publication addenda, as well as of other shorter works published by the CCS in Sheetlines, and as independent booklets. There is a substantial body of material for a second full length monograph, on Ordnance Survey half-inch maps, which was left incomplete at his death. There are active but unpublished listings of several other Ordnance Survey map series, and much material relating to map cover classification. There are correspondence files, in particular both sides of his correspondence (1982-1993) with Richard Oliver, wherein many themes in the largely unexplored territory of Ordnance Survey research, much of which would evolve into the published work of both men, were developed. Further details of his life and work appear in the obituary in Sheetlines 38.

Dates

  • Creation: 1940 - 1993

Conditions Governing Access

From the Collection:

The Charles Close Society Archives is available for consultation by researchers in the Map Room at Cambridge University Library. Appointments for access should be made in advance by contacting the Head of the Map Department, Anne Taylor (maps@lib.cam.ac.uk). Further contact details and Map Room opening hours can be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/maps/map-department-contact-details. Anyone wishing to use the collection must first acquire a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket, see https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/using-library/your-library-membership Members of the Charles Close Society wishing to consult the Charles Close Society Archives will not be charged for a ticket on production of their current CCS membership card and providing that they have first contacted Anne Taylor who will support their application.

Biographical / Historical

Guy Messenger lived at Uppingham in Rutland, teaching biology at Uppingham School until his retirement in 1980. He remained an active botanist until his death, publishing a monograph on the flora of Rutland in 1971 and several contributions to Watsonia, the scientific journal of the Botanical Society of the British Isles. He was an early member of the Charles Close Society (CCS), joining in 1981, and quickly turned the analytical and classification skills he had acquired as a botanist to his new passion of cartobibliography. He was the author of the first full length monograph on a twentieth century map series, the Ordnance Survey one-inch map of England and Wales Third Edition (Large Sheet Series), which the CCS published in 1988.

Extent

1 collection : Paper

Language of Materials

English

Originator(s)

Messenger, Kenneth Guy, 1920-1993

Finding aid date

2011-03-18 15:36:40+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

Contact:
Cambridge University Library
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Cambridge CB3 9DR United Kingdom