first of its kind in the world. During which time he worked closely with the government advising them on issues of agriculture, tourism, census data and Scottish affairs - introducing a variety of cartography and geographic information systems. Through the International Geographical Union, he also advised the Canadian government. Retirement from the Ogilvie Chair in 1986 was followed immediately by his appointment as Secretary and Treasurer of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, serving until his death in 2000. He also became Chairman of the Scottish Field Studies Council and played a major role in raising half a million pounds for a major development at the field centre at Kindrogan House in Perthshire which was appropriately named the Coppock Building in May 1995 when opened by The Princess Royal. He died in Edinburgh on 28 June 2000. Family Coppock married Sheila Mary Burnett in 1953. She died in 1990. Awards and honorary positions He was elected FBA in 1975, only the second British Geographer to be so honoured (after Henry Clifford Darby), and was a Vice-President of the British Academy from 1985 to 1987. Elected FRSE in 1976 and served on Council from 1979 to 1982. Awarded the 1985 Victoria Medal from the Royal Geographical Society. President of the Institute of British Geographers Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society CBE in 1987 for services to geography. Honorary degrees from the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow in 1999. Principal publications Recreation in the countryside: a spatial analysis, 1975 An agricultural geography of Great Britain, 1971 An agricultural atlas of England and Wales, 1964 Greater London, 1964 (as editor, with Hugh C Prince) Information technology and scholarship: applications in the humanities and social sciences, 1999 References 1921 births 2000 deaths People educated at Stanwell School Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge Academics of University College London Academics of the University of Edinburgh Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh British geographers Victoria Medal recipients 20th-century geographers Civil servants in the Lord Chancellor's Department