| LC control no. | no2003122393 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Callender, Geoffrey, 1875-1946 |
| Variant(s) | Callender, Geoffrey Arthur Romaine, Sir, 1875-1946 |
| Birth date | 1875-11-25 |
| Death date | 1946-11-06 |
| Place of birth | Didsbury (Manchester, England) |
| Place of death | Greenwich (London, England) |
| Field of activity | Naval history |
| Affiliation | Merton College Royal Naval College (Osborne, England) Royal Naval College, Dartmouth Royal Naval College (Great Britain) National Maritime Museum (Great Britain) |
| Profession or occupation | Historians Museum directors |
| Found in | The life of Sir John Leake, rear-admiral of Great Britain, 1920: title page (edited by Geoffrey Callender) Oxford dictionary of national biography online, viewed 9 December 2016 (Sir Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender; naval historian and museum director; born 25 November 1875 at Didsbury, Manchester, the elder son of Arthur William Callender; educated in Oxford at St Edward's School and at Merton College; appointed in January 1905 to the new Royal Naval College, Osborne, becoming head of the history and English department in January 1913; moved in 1921 to the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, as head of the history department; appointed in 1922 chair of history at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich; in 1934, became the first director of the National Maritime Museum; knighted in 1938; died suddenly at the museum on 6 November 1946) |
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