Helen Wallis

Helen Margaret Wallis (17 August 1924 – 7 February 1995) was the Map Curator at the British Museum (afterwards the British Library) from 1967 to 1987.

Biography Born at Dunkery, Park Road, Barnet on 17 August 1924, Wallis was the daughter of Leonard Francis Wallis (1880–1965), headmaster, and Mary McCulloch Jones (1884–1957), teacher. Cartographical innovations, and the Historians' guide to early British maps.

She retired from the British Library in 1986, then died of cancer on 7 February 1995 at the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in St John's Wood, London.

Honours and awards

Order of the British Empire, 1986 Hon. D.Litt. Davidson College, North Carolina Honorary Fellow of Portsmouth Polytechnic Society Medal of the British Cartographic Society Caird Medal of the National Maritime Museum Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society Honorary Fellow of the International Cartographic Association Honorary Fellow of the Library Association Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.