Dr. John Bicknell Auden - I4 - Individual Information

Dr. John Bicknell Auden ‎(i4)‎

Prefix: Dr.
Given Names: John Bicknell
Surname: Auden

Gender: Male Male

Birth: 14 December 1903

34 54 Bootham, York
Death: 21 January 1991 ‎(Age 87)‎ London

Personal Facts and Details

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Birth	14 December 1903 31 34 54 Bootham, York
Baptism	6 February 1904 ‎(Age 54 days)‎ St Maurice's, York
Education	between 1915 and 1917 ‎(Age 11)‎ St. Edmund's School, Hindhead, Surrey
Education	between 1917 and 1922 ‎(Age 13)‎ Marlborough College Note: There at the same time as MacNeice, Blunt and Betjeman?
Occupation	Geologist; see ODNB
Matriculated	1923 ‎(Age 19)‎ Chrst's College, Cambridge, his father's old college
Graduation	1926 ‎(Age 22)‎ Christ's College, Cambridge ‎(BA‎, first class), his father's old college, reading Geology
Occupation	between 1926 and 1935 ‎(Age 22)‎ member of the Indian Geological Survey
Founding Member	1927 ‎(Age 23)‎ the Himalyan Club
Awarded	1930 ‎(Age 26)‎ MA ‎(Cambridge)‎
Rtn	about 1931 ‎(Age 27)‎ to India after marriage
Sick	between 1926 and 1932 ‎(Age 22)‎ severe depression; called an "extreme neurotic" by CDL ‎(BD 152)‎
Explored	between 1930 and 1938 ‎(Age 26)‎ the Himalayas, Karakoram, Anghil, K2 ‎(1937 Himalayas expedition with Eric Shipton)‎
Marriage	Margaret Gordon Geddes - 27 November 1930 ‎(Age 26)‎ England? Note: ODNB states that they 'went to India' after the marriage; however there is no BMD entry for their marriage in the year 1930 in UK -- AA
Event	between 1931 and 1932 ‎(Age 27)‎ State of mind: "bitterness and despair in Calcutta" after discovering Margaret Marshall's affair and over-spending Note: Cited in RDH 72
Event	Margaret Gordon Geddes - 1931 ‎(Age 27)‎ In Calcutta Margaret Marshall had an affair with a servant Note: RDH 72
Event	Margaret Gordon Geddes - 1932 ‎(Age 28)‎ John Auden and Margaret Marshall separated Calcutta
Divorce	Margaret Gordon Geddes - October 1933 ‎(Age 29)‎ Note: See RDH 72
Learned	1937 ‎(Age 33)‎ flew over and explored the Bijaigarh Shales
Marriage	Sheila Bonnerjee - 21 February 1939 ‎(Age 35)‎
Occupation	1940 ‎(Age 36)‎ President of the Presidency Club in Calcutta
Doctorate	1948 ‎(Age 44)‎ Cambridge ‎(Doctor of Science)‎
Event	March 1951 ‎(Age 47)‎ Hosted W. H. Auden in Calcutta Note: WHA was also in Bombay. Visit to Calcutta was possibly in early days of April 1951.
Event	14 April 1951 ‎(Age 47)‎ Received into Roman Catholic Church at St Xavier's, Calcutta Note: Anita Auden says he had crucial meeting with Father Anderson Bakewell, an American Jesuit, of St Mary's College, Kurseong. John Auden first took Communion on 15 April 1951 and was confirmed by the Archbishop of Calcutta on 6 May 1951. ‎(See also DF 32.)‎
Travels to	July 1951 ‎(Age 47)‎ Italy with his family ‎(John Auden has an audience with Pope Pius at Castelgandolfo on 14 July 1951; he and his entire family have an audience with the Pope on 30 July 1951)‎.
Studied	between 1945 and 1951 ‎(Age 41)‎ all the major water projects ‎(dams, irrigation, hyDr.electric etc)‎ in India
Occupation	between 1953 and 1955 ‎(Age 49)‎ member of the Sudan Geological Survey the Sudan
Awarded	1953 ‎(Age 49)‎ Gold Medal of the Asiatic Society
Occupation	between 1956 and 1960 ‎(Age 52)‎ research geologist for the Burmah Oil Co
Occupation	between 1960 and 1968 ‎(Age 56)‎ member ‎(land and water resources)‎ of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UNO Rome
Residence	Sheila Bonnerjee - 1965 ‎(Age 61)‎ 43 Thurloe Square, London, SW 7
Residence	1968 ‎(Age 64)‎ Via Repense, 4 Lungotevere Ripa, Rome
Rtn	1969 ‎(Age 65)‎ London with his family
Occupation	1968/69 (1969) ‎(Age 65)‎ Consultant to UNESCO Rome
Appointed	after 1969 ‎(Age 65)‎ in retirement Vice-President of the Geological Society of London ‎(sceptical of plate tectonics)‎
Death	21 January 1991 ‎(Age 87)‎ London
Event	29 January 1991 ‎(8 days after death)‎ Requiem mass in Latin taken by Fr Mark Langham Lady Chapel in Westminster Abbey Note: John Auden's coffin had been taken to rest in the Lady Chapel on 28 January 1991
Cremation	Mortlake Cemetery

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Parents Family (F1)
Father	Dr. George Augustus Auden MD FRCS FRCP PhD 1872 - 1957
Mother	Constance Rosalie Bicknell 1869 - 1941
Brother	‎[George]‎ Bernard Auden 1900 - 1978
Brother	Dr. John Bicknell Auden 1903 - 1991
Brother	Wystan Hugh Auden 1907 - 1973

Immediate Family (F43)
Ex-Wife	Margaret Gordon Geddes 1899 - 1976

Immediate Family (F34)
Wife	Sheila Bonnerjee 1913 - 2002
Daughter	Anita Benedetta Auden 1941 -
Daughter	Rita Romola Auden 1942 - 2008

Notes

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Note	Major source: Roger T. Stearn, Auden, John Bicknell ‎(1903-1991)‎, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ‎[http://www.oxfordODNB.com/view/article/53476, accessed 4 Dec 2007]‎ "He attended St. Edmund's School ‎(Wystan followed him there)‎, Marlborough, and Cambridge, where he studied geology. On leaving Cambridge in 1926 he joined the Geological Survey of India. He later became the head of the Survey, and remained with it until he retired in the 1950s. In 1960 he began ten years' work with the Land and Water Sources Division of the Food and Agricultural Organization in Rome, and then retired to London. His first marriage, to Margaret Marshall, ended in divorce. In 1940 he married Sheila Bonnergee; their two daughters are Dr.Rita Auden and Anita Auden Money." Edward Mendelson, "John Bicknell Auden", http://audensociety.org/07newsletter.html bapt at St Maurice's, York, 6 Feb 1904 £75,812: probate, 23 April 1991
Education	There at the same time as MacNeice, Blunt and Betjeman?
Marriage	ODNB states that they 'went to India' after the marriage; however there is no BMD entry for their marriage in the year 1930 in UK -- AA
Marriage	ODNB states that they 'went to India' after the marriage; however there is no BMD entry for their marriage in the year 1930 in UK -- AA
BET	Cited in RDH 72
1931	RDH 72
1931	RDH 72
Divorce	See RDH 72
Divorce	See RDH 72
MAR	WHA was also in Bombay. Visit to Calcutta was possibly in early days of April 1951.
14	Anita Auden says he had crucial meeting with Father Anderson Bakewell, an American Jesuit, of St Mary's College, Kurseong. John Auden first took Communion on 15 April 1951 and was confirmed by the Archbishop of Calcutta on 6 May 1951. ‎(See also DF 32.)‎
29	John Auden's coffin had been taken to rest in the Lady Chapel on 28 January 1991