Message from Margaret Kenworthy

(Miss) Joan Margaret Kenworthy, B.Litt., M.A. (Oxon), FRMetS, FRGS Born in Oldham, Lancashire, in 1933, I retired as Principal, St. Mary's College, University of Durham, and also from lecturing in the
Department of Geography, University of Durham, in 1999. I am currently a member of the committee of the History Group of the Royal Meteorological Society, and am an honorary "founder" member of the Association of British Climatologists. I organised two conferences at the University of Durham, for these
societies, in 1991 and 1994, and am joint editor of the resulting publications:
Observatories and climatological research, edited by Brian D. Giles and
Joan M. Kenworthy, 1994, and Colonial Observatories and Observations, edited by Joan M. Kenworthy and J. Malcolm Walker, 1997 - both can be obtained from theRoyal Meteorological Society. My interests include the history of the Durham University Observatory meteorological record, the second longest University meteorological record at one site in Britain after Oxford, and the history of meteorology and climatology in East Africa. I have worked on colonial records held in Britain to identify stages in the understanding of climate by European settlers in the Kenya highlands and plan to develop this study by looking at colonial records held in the Kenya National Archives, Nairobi. I live in a small village, 12 miles from Durham city.

Address:
3 Satley Plough, Satley,
Bishop Auckland, County Durham,
DL13 4JX.
Telephone: 01388 730848.
Email: joankenworthy@aol.com -- Joan Margaret Kenworthy

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