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Helen Wallis was born on 17 August, 1924 in London, England. She was a British cartographer and historian who was the first woman to be appointed as the Map Librarian at the British Library. She was also the first woman to be appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Wallis was educated at the University of London, where she studied geography and cartography. She then went on to work at the British Museum, where she was responsible for the map collection. She was appointed as the Map Librarian at the British Library in 1965, a position she held until her retirement in 1989. Wallis was a prolific author, writing numerous books and articles on the history of cartography. She was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the International Cartographic Association. Wallis was married to the geographer and cartographer, John Wallis, and had two children. She died on 28 April, 2016 at the age of 91.

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1995

She retired from the British Library in 1986, then died of cancer on 7 February 1995 at the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in St John's Wood, London. Her obituary was written by W.R. Mead and appeared in The Independent, 14 February 1995.

1986

She was the chairman of the standing commission on the history of cartography of the International Cartographic Association. In 1986, she became president of the International Map Collectors' Society and she was a founder of The Geography and Map Section of the International Federation of Library Associations. She served as President of The Society for Nautical Research, 1972–1988, and President of the British Cartographic Society. She was appointed OBE in the 1986 Birthday Honours.

1951

In 1951, she was appointed assistant to R.A. Skelton, superintendent of the Map Room at the British Museum, succeeding him in 1967. She was the first woman to hold the post. In 1968 she was responsible for the acquisition of the map collection of the Royal United Services Institution. She also discovered the earliest version of England's first globe, by Emery Molyneux and thought to date from 1592, at Petworth House.

1924

Helen Margaret Wallis OBE (17 August 1924 – 7 February 1995) was the Map Curator at the British Museum (afterwards the British Library) from 1967 to 1987.

Born at Dunkery, Park Road, Barnet on 17 August 1924, Wallis was the daughter of Leonard Francis Wallis (1880–1965), headmaster, and Mary McCulloch Jones (1884–1957), teacher. She attended St Paul's Girls' School (1934–43) and studied geography at St Hugh's College, Oxford (1945–1954), where she completed her D.Phil. degree in 1954 with a thesis 'The exploration of the South Sea, 1519 to 1644'.

1766

Key publications include Carteret's voyage round the world, 1766–1769, Cartographical innovations, and the Historians' guide to early British maps.

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