Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, Turkish-Canadian journalist (died 1966)

Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor

First full-time editor of National Geographic (1875–1966)

Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor was an American magazine editor who was the first full-time editor of the National Geographic magazine from 1899 to 1954, and is credited with having consolidated the nascent magazine. As President of the National Geographic Society from 1920 to 1954, he…