Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor

Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor , father of photojournalism, was the first fulltime editor of National Geographic Magazine . Grosvenor is credited with having built the magazine into the iconic publication that it is today.

Grosvenor was born in 1875 to Lilian Waters and Edwin A. Grosvenor in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, and educated at Worcester Academy and at Robert Elementary School. He attended Amherst College and graduated with the AB degree magna cum laude in 1897. While at Amherst, Grosvenor and his twin brother Edwin were one of the best tennis doubles teams. Grosvenor became the President of the National Geographic Society . Grosvenor married Elsie May Bell , the daughter of Alexander Graham Bell.

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