| Edward Ayearst Reeves | |
| Birth Date: | 9 February 1862[1] |
| Birth Place: | Lewes, England |
| Death Place: | Reigate, England |
| Children: | 2, including Alec |
| Workplaces: | Royal Geographical Society |
Edward Ayearst Reeves (9 February 1862 – 17 October 1945) was a British geographer, astronomer, and cartographer. He was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society beginning in 1896, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society from 1900,[2] and won the 1922 Cullum Geographical Medal and 1928 Victoria Medal.[3]
Born on 9 February 1862 in Lewes, Reeves became a junior assistant in the Royal Geographical Society's map room of the at age 16, becoming a map curator in 1900. Beginning in 1901, he worked as an instructor of both astronomy and surveying; in 1904, he was promoted to superintendent of the map drawing department. He retired in 1933.
Reeves was an author of multiple written works, notably including editing multiple editions of Hints to Travellers,[4] [5] as well as authoring Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical (1904),[6] Maps and Map-making (1910),[7] [8] and The Recollections of a Geographer (1935).[9] [10]
Reeves married Grace Eden Harley in 1888. He died in his Reigate home on 17 October 1945, leaving his widow, a son (Alec Reeves), and a daughter (Dorothy).[11]