Background
WISE, Michael was born on August 17, 1918 in Stafford. Son of Harry Cuthbert and Sarah Evelyn Wise.
WISE, Michael was born on August 17, 1918 in Stafford. Son of Harry Cuthbert and Sarah Evelyn Wise.
After attending Saltley Secondary School, Birmingham, he attended the where he gained a Bachelor in Geography in 1939. After war service he returned to Birmingham as an assistant lecturer and lecturer, gaining a Doctor of Philosophy in 1951. lieutenant was at this point that he met Gordon Warwick, a fellow assistant lecturer, who became a lifelong friend, with Wise being godfather to the latter"s daughter.
They later collaborated on the British Association Handbook for the Birmingham meeting.
Street Barnabas, Erdington church register.
Served with Resident Advisor and Northamptonshire Regiment in Middle East and Italy 1941-1946. Lecturer in Geography, University of Birmingham 1946-1951, London School of Economics 1951-1954. Cassel Reader in Economics"Geography, London School of Economics 1954-1958, Professor, of Geography 1958-1983.
Pro-Director South.E. 1983-1985, (Honorary Fellow 1988).
Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand 1970. Chairman Ministry of Agriculture Committee of Inquiry into Statutory Smallholdings 1963-1967.
Chairman Department, of Transport Landscape Advisory Committee 1981-1990. Chairman Court of Governors.
Birkbeck College 1983-1989, Fellow.
President Institute of British Geographers 1974, Institute Geographical Union 1976-1980, Geographical Association 1976-1977. President Royal Geographical Society 82.
Wise received the Royal Geographical Society Gill Memorial award (1958) and Founder’s Medal (1977) and also the Alexander Körōsi Csoma Medal of the Hungarian Geographical Society (1980), the Tokyo Geographical Society Medal (1981) and the Lauréat d’Honneur of the IGU (1984). He received the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1979. The University of Birmingham awarded him an honorary Doctor of Science in 1982. In 2008 his 90th birthday was marked by a gathering of colleagues and former students at.
During the student disturbances of 1968 he defended the treasures of the London School of Economics Map Room and negotiated their exemption from occupation during a sit-in.
University Grants Committee, Hong Kong 1966-1973, Social Science Research Council 1976-1982. Geographical Society, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics 1975, Paris 1984, Mexico 1984, Poland 1986, Association Japanese Geographers 1980, Institute of British Geographers 1989.
Married Barbara Mary Hodgetts in 1942.
