Ken Cumberland

Kenneth Brailey Cumberland CBE (1 October 1913 – 17 April 2011) was a New Zealand geography academic and local-body politician.

After retiring in 1978 he made and narrated a television series, Landmarks, on the geography of New Zealand.

[1][2][3] Cumberland was an associate of Dove-Myer Robinson and were both members of the Drainage League that opposed the Brown's Bay scheme supported by the then mayor John Allum.

[4] Later, he was elected to the Auckland City Council in 1953 as part of Robinson's United Independents ticket.

[8] In the 1982 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to geography and the community.