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John Bicknell Auden (14 December 1903 – 21 January 1991) was an English geologist and explorer, older brother of the poet W. H. Auden, who worked for many years in India with the Geological Survey of India and later with the Food and Agriculture Organization.
John Bicknell Auden, the distinguished geologist who was Wystan Auden's older brother, died in London on 21 January 1991 at the age of 87. John Auden was born in York on 14 December 1903, the second of the three sons of George Augustus Auden and Constance Rosalie (Bicknell) Auden.
The play is dedicated to Auden's geologist brother John Bicknell Auden who had taken part in an expedition near the Karakoram mountain K2. The play is widely regarded as an allegory of Auden's own temptation to be a public figure; this interpretation was first offered by R. G. Collingwood in The Principles of Art (1938).
He was the third of three sons; the eldest, George Bernard Auden (1900–1978), became a farmer, while the second, John Bicknell Auden (1903–1991), became a geologist. The Audens were minor gentry with a strong clerical tradition, originally of Rowley Regis , later of Horninglow , Staffordshire.
Jan 1, 2013 · Comparing seismographs from Bombay and Kew, England, the long-legged, bearded and alarmingly pale-skinned team leader, 31-year-old John Bicknell Auden, had first judged the earthquake’s epicentre to fall in southeastern Nepal.
Geologist and explorer; brother of W.H. Auden The elder brother of W.H. Auden, John Auden was a geologist and explorer. In 1926 he joined the Geological Survey of India, where he remained until he retired in the early 1950s.
John Bicknell Auden (1903-1991), Geologist and explorer; brother of W.H. Auden. Artist or producer of 1 portrait, Sitter in 2 portraits. This portrait. Shortly before leaving Oxford in 1928, Auden's first collection of poems was published privately by fellow student Stephen Spender.
