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Among the many tributes paid to Professor Francis ('Frank') Carter is Hugh Clout's assessment that 'no other anglophone geographer has contributed so much to the geographical literature of Central and Eastern Europe. This will be universally endorsed by Frank's fellow practitioners, but our loss is all the greater since his passing. After a three-year struggle with cancer, during which he was constantly supported by his Polish wife, Krystyna, his passing has deprived the profession of the fruits of a range of initiatives that Frank had looked forward to developing well into retirement. Indeed such was his prodigious output that the stream of books and papers maintained through a long illness will continue for some time yet.
With inspiration for Geography derived from John Inch of Wulfrum College of Education in Wolverhampton, Frank graduated at Sheffield University. After taking his Diploma in Education at Cambridge he spent two years as Assistant at the London School of Economics (1963-5) and one year lecturing at King's College London (1965-6) before taking the Hayter lectureship jointly at University College London and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. In 1990 he switched to full-time work at SSEES (becoming an Honorary Fellow of the UCL Geography Department) and was initially Head of the Social Sciences Department for three years (1990-3).
With an interest in Eastern Europe, going back to a West Midlands' childhood spiced by...