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Helen Margaret Wallis {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE}} (17 August 1924 – 7 February 1995) was the Map Curator at the British Museum (afterwards the British Library) from 1967 to 1987. BiographyBorn at Dunkery, Park Road, Barnet on 17 August 1924, Wallis was the daughter of Leonard Francis Wallis (1880–1965), headmaster, and Mary McCulloch Jones (1884–1957), teacher.[1] She attended St Paul's Girls' School (1934–43) and studied geography at St Hugh's College, Oxford (1945—1954), where she completed her D.Phil degree in 1954 with a thesis 'The exploration of the South Sea, 1519 to 1644'.[1] In 1951, she was appointed assistant to R.A. Skelton, superintendent of the Map Room at the British Museum, succeeding him in 1967. She was the first woman to hold the post. In 1968 she was responsible for the acquisition of the map collection of the Royal United Services Institution. She also discovered the earliest version of England's first globe, by Emery Molyneux and thought to date from 1592, at Petworth House. She was the chairman of the standing commission on the history of cartography of the International Cartographic Association. In 1986, she became president of the International Map Collectors' Society and she was a founder of The Geography and Map Section of the International Federation of Library Associations. She served as President of The Society for Nautical Research, 1972–1988, and President of the British Cartographic Society. She was appointed OBE in the 1986 Birthday Honours. Key publications include Carteret's voyage round the world, 1766–1769,[1] Cartographical innovations,[2] and the Historians' guide to early British maps.[3] She retired from the British Library in 1986, then died of cancer on 7 February 1995 at the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in St John's Wood, London.[1] Honours and awards
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References1. ^{{cite book|last=Wallis|first=Helen|title=Carteret's voyage round the world, 1766-1769|year=1965|publisher=Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press|location=Cambridge|pages=2 v.}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallis, Helen}}2. ^{{cite book|title=Cartographical innovations : an international handbook of mapping terms to 1900|year=1987|publisher=Published by Map Collector Publications in association with the International Cartographic Association|location=[Tring, Herts]|isbn=0906430046|pages=xx, 353}} 3. ^{{cite book|title=Historians' guide to early British maps: a guide to the location of pre-1900 maps of the British Isles preserved in the United Kingdom and Ireland|year=1994|publisher=Royal Historical Society|location=London|isbn=0861931416|pages=ix, 465}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=The British Cartographic Society: The Awards > The Society Medal|url=http://www.cartography.org.uk/default.asp?contentID=621|accessdate=15 October 2013}} 5. ^{{cite web |title=Medals and Awards Recipients 1970-2007|publisher=Royal Geographical Society|url=http://www.rgs.org/NR/rdonlyres/2676C704-4FAF-49CA-BFF3-5DFB68AF5A01/0/MedalWinners19702007.pdf|accessdate=2009-06-26}} 6. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|author=Tony Campbell|title=Helen Margaret Wallis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/57148|accessdate=15 October 2013}} 14 : 1924 births|1995 deaths|People educated at St Paul's Girls' School|Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford|Employees of the British Library|British maritime historians|Historians of cartography|Officers of the Order of the British Empire|20th-century British historians|British women historians|20th-century British women writers|Deaths from cancer in England|People from Chipping Barnet|Victoria Medal recipients |
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