William Richard Mead (1915–2014) was a British geographer, known for work on Scandinavia and North America.
He was the son of William Mead, a grocer in Aylesbury and his first wife, Sarah Catherine Stevens, who died in 1918.
In 1943 he moved back to England working for the Royal Air Force Educational Service.
[1] Completing a London Ph.D. interrupted by the war, Mead took a lecturing position at the University of Liverpool under Henry Clifford Darby.
[1] In the wake of Darby, Mead moved to University College London, where he settled for the rest of his career.