Robert Walter Steel CBE (31 July 1915 – 29 December 1997) was a British geographer, who was Professor of Geography at Liverpool University from 1957 to 1974 and Principal of the University College of Swansea from 1974 to 1982.
Son of Rev Frederick Grabham and Winifred Barry (Harrison) Steel.
[1] He then attended Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating in 1934, obtaining a first-class degree in 1937.
[2][3] He was a lecturer in Geography at the University of Oxford from 1939 to 1956, serving in the Naval Intelligence Division of the Admiralty from 1940 to 1945.
He was then appointed John Rankin Professor of Geography at Liverpool University in 1957 and held this post until 1974.