Record

CodePX1130
Dates1900-1969
Person NameTandy; Geoffrey A (1900-1969); Algologist
SurnameTandy
ForenamesGeoffrey A
EpithetAlgologist
ActivityMuseum Staff. BA (Oxon) 1921. Demonstrator, Lecturer & Research Student, Birkbeck College, University of London, 1922-1925.
Appointed 2nd class assistant in Department of Botany 1 Jan 1926; 1st class assistant 1934; joined Royal Navy 1939, worked at Bletchley Park during the war. Left Museum (retired) 1948. Foreign Office 1948-1954.
Marine algae; Monocots
Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29. Guest of Carnegie Institution of Washington at Dry Tortugas Lab 1931 & 1932. Occasional contributor to TS Eliot's 'The Criterion' from 1927 and broadcasting critic 1936 - end of publication. First broadcast 1933 re Tortugas. Held Equity card no 32185.
RelationshipsMarried Polly with children; 2nd marriage to Maire, 5 children including Miles Tandy
Catalogue
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DF/BOT/421/1/16Tandy, Geoffrey A: Correspondence, H-J 
DF/BOT/421/1/14Tandy, Geoffrey A: Correspondence, C-D 
DF/BOT/421/1/23Tandy, Geoffrey A: Correspondence, E-H 
DF/BOT/421/1/22Tandy, Geoffrey A: Correspondence, C-D 
DF/ZOO/266/3/3Specimen list of Tunicates from the Dry Tortugas Collection presented by J S Colman of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and G Tandy, BM(NH) 
DF/BOT/421/1/19Tandy, Geoffrey A: Correspondence, S 
DF/BOT/421/1/21Tandy, Geoffrey A: Correspondence, A-B 
DF/BOT/421/1/17Tandy, Geoffrey A: Correspondence, K-N 
DF/BOT/421/1/29Tandy, Geoffrey A: Signed cheques 
DF/BOT/421/1/27Tandy, Geoffrey A: Correspondence, T-Z 
DF/BOT/421/1/26Tandy, Geoffrey A: Correspondence, S 
DF/BOT/421/1/20Tandy, Geoffrey A: Correspondence, T-Z 
DF/BOT/421/1/25Tandy, Geoffrey A: Correspondence, N-R 
DF/BOT/421/1/28Tandy, Geoffrey A: Unidentified items 
DF/BOT/421/1/24Tandy, Geoffrey A: Correspondence, I-M 
DF/ZOO/213/112/33Spender, M, Stephenson, T A and Tandy, G: ecological report 
DF/BOT/421/1/11Various papers relating to Tandy's sailing activities. 
DF/BOT/421/1/30'A Life in Translation: Biography and the life of Geoffrey Tandy' by Miles Tandy 
DF/BOT/421/1/2Prints and negatives of the Great Barrier Reef expedition 
DF/BOT/421/1/13Tandy, Geoffrey A: Correspondence, A-B 
DF/BOT/421/1/6Article written by Tandy, 'A Summer at the Dry Tortugas Laboratory' 
DF/BOT/421/1Tandy, Geoffrey A: Correspondence and Papers 
DF/BOT/421/1/10Typescript radio story entitled 'Cornish Hero', intended for narration by Tandy. 
DF/BOT/421/1/5Article written by Tandy for The Listener, 'Loggerhead Key and the Sargasso' 
DF/BOT/421/1/18Tandy, Geoffrey A: Correspondence, O-R 
DF/BOT/421/1/15Tandy, Geoffrey A: Correspondence, E-G 
DF/PH/17/3/4Illustrations from Natural History Magazine: Mr Tandy's photographs selected for illustrations [of Batt Reef, Australia] 
DF/PH/17/3/2Illustrations from Natural History Magazine: Illustrations to Geoffrey Tandy's article - Tortuga 
DF/BOT/421Algae Section: Correspondence and Papers 
DF/PH/2/1/4/4Staff Group Photograph: 'The Establishment' (Full Staff Photograph) 
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