| Authorised form of name | Arden-Close; Sir; Charles Frederick (1865 - 1952); surveyor and geographer |
| Other forms of name | Charles Frederick Arden- |
| Close, Sir Charles Frederick |
| Other forms of surname | Close |
| Dates | 1865 - 1952 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | St Saviour's, Jersey, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 10 August 1865 |
| Place of death | Enniskerry Nursing Home, Sleepers Hill, Winchester, England |
| Date of death | 19/12/1952 |
| Occupation | surveyor and geographer |
| Research field | Surveying |
| Geography |
| Geodesy |
| Activity | Education:
Dame-school, Rochester; Thompson's school, Jersey; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; School of Military Engineering, Chatham
Career:
Served a year in Gibraltar (1886); attached to and later commanded the balloon section at Chatham (1887-8); posted to India serving on battery construction for the Hooghly defences, surveying India (1889-93), followed by topographic work in Burma, and geodetic triangulation in Mandalay; returned to Chatham; sent to west Africa to survey the boundary between the Niger Coast Protectorate and the German Cameroons (1895); appointed to the Ordnance Survey (1898); appointed CMG (1899); promoted to major (1901); lieutenant-colonel (1908); colonel (1912); led a survey detachment for the South African War; chief instructor in surveying in Chatham (1902-5); Director General of the Ordnance Survey (1911-1922) ; retired (1922); changed his surname to Arden-Close by deed poll to comply with the terms of a bequest (1938).
Honours:
CMG 1899; CB 1916; KBE 1917
Memberships:
Royal Geographical Society (President 1927–30)
Hampshire Field Club (President 1929–32; 1935–6)
British Association
Awards/Medals:
Victoria gold medal 1927 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 15/05/1919 |
| Age at election | 54 |
| Proposer | Arthur Robert Hinks; George Walker Walker; Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen; Arthur Matthew Weld Downing; Sidney Burrard; James Alfred Ewing; Horace Darwin |
| Edmond Herbert Hills; Frank Watson Dyson; Curzon of Kedleston; George Dashwood Taubman Goldie; Percy Alexander MacMahon; Richard Tetley Glazebrook; Aubrey Strahan; Ralph Allen Sampson; William Napier Shaw |
| Relationships | Parents: Captain (later Major-General) Frederick Close (1830–1899) and his second wife, Lydia Ann Stevens.
Spouse: Gladys Violet (d. 1953), daughter of Theodore Henry Percival, formerly of the India Office.
Children: One daughter and two sons. |
| Published works | RCN 33571 |
| General context | Charles Close Society for the Study of Ordnance Survey Maps, named after him and formed in 1980. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
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| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1952-1953 vol 8 pp 327-339, plate, by J de Graaff-Hunter
Notes:
Elected a Fellow as Sir Charles Frederick Close; subsequently changed name to Arden-Close. |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/9334620 |
| Royal Society code | NA1322 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1919/04 | Arden-Close, Sir Charles Frederick: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/000895 | Close, Sir Charles Frederick, later Arden-Close | nd |
| MC/34/36 | Letter from [Charles Frederick] Close, 25 Winn Road, Southampton, to the [Royal Society] | 18 May 1919 |
| IM/000894 | Close, Sir Charles Frederick, later Arden-Close | 1922 |
| NLB/63/159 | Copy letter from unknown correspondent; to Sir Charles Close, FRS | 07 July 1922 |
| NLB/56/817 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Frederick Arden] Close, FRS | 30 May 1919 |
| NLB/69/24 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles Close, FRS | 14 December 1925 |
| NLB/57/709 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to unknown correspondent | 22 January 1920 |
| NLB/57/318 | Copy letter from Sir Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Frederick Arden-Close] Close, FRS; 25 Winn load, Southampton | 14 October 1919 |
| NLB/64/199 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Frederick Arden] Close, FRS | 22 February 1923 |
| NLB/61/905 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Frederick Arden] Close, FRS | 10 November 1921 |
| NLB/61/571 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Frederick Arden] Close, FRS | 8 August 1921 |
| NLB/61/224 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Frederick Arden] Close, FRS | 2 June 1921 |
| NLB/57/306 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Sir Arthur] Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society | 11 October 1919 |
| NLB/61/596 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Frederick Arden] Close, FRS | 15 September 1921 |
| NLB/64/84 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Frederick Arden] Close, Chairman of the National Committee for Geography and FRS | 30 January 1923 |
| NLB/63/43 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir Charles [Frederick Arden-] Close, FRS | 16 June 1922 |
| NLB/62/769 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Frederick Arden] Close, FRS | 4 May 1922 |
| NLB/63/74 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir Charles Close, FRS | 20 June 1922 |
| NLB/64/21 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Arden Frederick] Close, FRS | 19 January 1923 |
| NLB/64/128 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Frederick Arden] Close, FRS | 5 February 1923 |
| NLB/64/361 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Frederick Arden] Close, FRS | 22 March 1923 |
| NLB/64/668 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Frederick Arden-]Close, K.B.E, FRS | 29 May 1923 |
| NLB/67/479 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Arden] Close, FRS | 7 January 1925 |
| NLB/65/906 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Charles Frederick Arden] Close, FRS | 26 January 1924 |
| NLB/67/285 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Arden] Close, FRS | 1 December 1924 |
| NLB/68/284 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Arden] Close, FRS | 12 June 1925 |
| NLB/68/433 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Arden] Close, FRS; International Geographical Union, Winchester | 11 July 1925 |
| NLB/69/553 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [George Thurland] Prior, FRS | 7 June 1926 |
| NLB/68/504 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Arden] Close, FRS, Chairman of the National Committee for Geography | 20 July 1925 |
| NLB/57/221 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Frederick] Close [Arden-Close], FRS, RE; Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton | [?] September 1919 |
| RR/65/106 | Referee's report by Charles Frederick Arden-Close, on a paper 'Some experimental observations for longitude made by theodolite fitted with a shutter eyepiece' by James De Graaff-Hunter | 9 March 1938 |
| NLB/64 | New Letter Book volume 64, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration | 19 January 1923-11 July 1923 |
| NLB/57 | New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration | 27 June 1919-27 February 1920 |
| MC/34/37 | Letter from [Charles Frederick] Close, Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, to the [Royal Society] | 5 June 1919 |
| NLB/56/834 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Frederick Arden] Close, FRS | 6 June 1919 |