Michael Chisholm (geographer)

Michael Donald Inglis Chisholm FSA FBA (June 1931 – 9 July 2024) was a British economic and human geographer and academic.

[5] In the summer of 1953, Chisholm surveyed parts of Blakeney Point, Norfolk, to map changes in the coastline following the great North Sea flood of 31 January to 1 February 1953.

[2] After graduation, Chisholm first worked with Colin Clark at the Agricultural Economics Research Institute in the University of Oxford, from 1954 to 1959.

In 1960, Chisholm took up an assistant lectureship at Bedford College, London, under Gordon Manley, before moving in 1965 to the University of Bristol.

[10] In retirement, Chisholm continued to publish papers, mainly on topics related to the history of the Cambridgeshire Fens.