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First, who were the players in the drama? It is noteworthy, I think, that men, and north-countrymen at that, dominate the story to such a great extent. (Few women have been involved, Gertrude Elles, Louisa King and Cherry Lewis being the only ones who really mattered so far as my narrative has been concerned.) If we draw lines across England at about the latitude of Birmingham, Leicester and Nottingham, and from Newcastle to Carlisle, we find that just about all the participants in the story of Lakeland geology have come from within these boundaries, have resided there for extended periods, or have been geologists who attended or worked at universities therein. Think of, for example, Allen, Bell, Bott, Branney, Chadwick, Dunham, Firman, Fitton, Goodchild, Paul Green, Harker, Harkness, Hartley, Holliday, Jackson, Jeans, Johnson, Kneller, Kokelaar, Lapworth, Mackintosh, Marr, Millward, Mitchell, Molyneux, Moseley, Nicholson, Otley, Petterson, Rickards, Rushton, Sedgwick, Soper, Ward, Webb, Woodcock and Young. All these men had, have had, or have, northern associations. The relevant universities have been Birmingham, Durham, Hull, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield. Two exceptions prove the rule. The first is Cambridge, where several staff and students have had Lakeland connections: Elles, Harker, Holliday, Hollingworth, Hughes, King, Marr, McNamara, Moseley, Nicholas, Oliver, Rickards, Sedgwick, Wadge, Woodcock and so on, although several
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