biography
| name: |
Mackinder, Sir Halford John
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pronunciation:
[muhkinder]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1861–1947)
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| biography:
| Geographer and politician, born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, EC England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and laid the foundations of British academic geography there, and later at Reading and the London School of Economics. He held numerous senior university appointments, became an MP (1910–22), and was British high commissioner for South Russia (1919–20). Knighted in 1920, he became chairman of the Imperial Shipping Committee (1920–45) and of the Imperial Economic Committee (1926–41). |
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