Charles Bungay Fawcett (25 August 1883 – 21 September 1952)[1] was a British geographer, regarded as "one of the founders of modern British academic geography" and an early promoter of the idea of regional planning.
[2] He was born into a farming family in Staindrop, County Durham, and went to school in nearby Gainford.
In 1928, he was appointed Professor of Geography at University College London, where he remained until his retirement in 1949.
[3] He gained national attention for his essay Provinces of England, published in 1919, in which he developed the thinking of Patrick Geddes in suggesting a process of survey and development planning across large regions of England.
In many ways, Fawcett's thinking foreshadowed much of the development planning system that was applied in England in the second half of the twentieth century, and initiatives towards regional government in England.