Darbishire, Bernard Vernon
Bernard Vernon Darbishire (August 8, 1865 Dwygyfylchi, Wales - December 29, 1935, Surrey, England) was a Welsh mapmaker and member of the Royal Geographical Society. He matriculated at Oxford May 23, 1885, and maintained a long relationship with the university and town, producing many educational atlases and maps published by Oxford University Press. Works include The Kingsway Atlas of Physical Geography (1921) Oxford Outline Maps (of the World), (1911) and a series of wall maps printed between 1910 and 1911. He also contributed to Stieler’s Atlas of Modern Geography (editions between 1909 and 1915) and his own War Atlas (1915), a compilation of maps relevant to the first World War. His work with the Royal Geographical Society includes ‘Northern Korea’ (1892), ‘Sketch map of the Black Sea, after I.B. Spindler’ (1892), ‘Sketch map of the Black Sea, after I.B. Spindler’(1894), ’Part of British Guiana and Venezuela’ (1895), ‘Mr. G.G. Dixon's compass-survey of the River Barima : from the Eclipse Falls to the source’ (1895), ‘Map of the Luchu islands, to illustrate Mr. Basil Hall Chamberlain's paper’(1895).hind
Earliest map to compile the exploration of the Congo River Valley during the Scramble for Africa
Map of Part of the South Eastern Congo-Basin Showing Recent Exploration
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A rare 1895 Royal Geographic Society map of the southeastern Congo River Basin - the first detailed map to compile over twenty years’ exploration along the courses of the Sankuru, Lomami and Lualaba rivers. This period culminated in the Congo Arab War, a conflict pitting the Belgian proxy government against a coalition of Arab slavers attempting to wrest control of the Congo Free State. (more details)