Ravenhill, William Lionel Desmond ( 1919–1995 ), geographer and historian of cartography , was born on 30 December 1919 in Carmarthen , the son of George Ravenhill ( c.1880–1967) , a master plumber, and his wife, Elizabeth (1893–1993). He had a brother and a sister. Ravenhill won a scholarship to Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen , in 1930 and entered the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth , in 1938 to read geography. His academic studies were interrupted in 1940 by war service as a Royal Air Force fighter pilot in Malta , Italy , Yugoslavia
