Edmund William Gilbert (1900–1973) was a British social geographer.
He defined geography in terms of the recognition of the characters of regions[2] In the 1920s, while at Reading University, he studied the American West.
[3] He was much influenced by Halford Mackinder, to the point of being thought an uncritical admirer.
[4] During World War II he worked on the Naval Intelligence Handbooks, producing, with Robert Beckinsale[5] and S. da Sá, the Spain and Portugal volumes.
He studied at St Peter's School, York[6]