1. Richard John Chorley was an English geographer, and Professor of Geography at Cambridge University, known as leading figure in quantitative geography in the late 20th century, who played an instrumental role in bringing in the use of systems theory to geography.
Later on, Richard Chorley began studying Geomorphology as an undergraduate at the School of Geography at Oxford.
Richard Chorley served with the Royal Engineers from 1946 to 1948 and made it Lieutenant.
Beckinsale, who advised Richard Chorley to go on to graduate study in the United States.
Richard Chorley made a transatlantic move in 1951 as a Fulbright Scholar to Columbia University where he was a graduate student in the Geology Department and explored the quantitative approach to land form evolution.
Richard Chorley started his academic career as Instructor in Geography at Columbia University, New York in 1952.
In 1957, Richard Chorley needed to return to Britain for family reasons.
At Cambridge University from 1970 to 1975 Richard Chorley served as Secretary of the Faculty Board of Geography and Geology.
Richard Chorley received a series of Awards and honours, such as:.
Richard Chorley died at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, on 12 May 2002 following a heart attack and was buried in Cambridge's Ascension Parish Burial Ground on the 21st; he was survived by his wife, Rosemary, and their two children.
Richard Chorley is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge.
Richard Chorley married Rosemary More in 1965 and they had one son and one daughter.
Richard Chorley rejected the prevailing paradigm of the Davisian cycles of erosion and sought to replace these with a quantitative model-based paradigm with an emphasis on General Systems Theory and numerical modelling.
Richard Chorley's negative assessment of Davis theories led Cliff Ollier to state that "'Davis bashing' was a theme" for Chorley.
Richard Chorley produced volumes of scientific papers in physical geography that codified his approach and allowed him to ask new questions about earth surface processes and ways they can be studied.
Richard Chorley's studies ranged into climatology and hydrology where he cooperated with Colorado meteorologist Roger Barry on the text, Atmosphere, Weather and Climate.
Richard Chorley did this first through a series of annual summer conferences held at Madingley Hall near Cambridge, where his lectures helped form a basis of a series of volumes that influenced the discipline.