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Businesses (2)
- Exeter Whale Fishery Co Exeter, Devon
- Scottish Spitsbergen Syndicate Ltd Edinburgh, Midlothian
Organisations (12)
Persons (147)
- Aldrich, Pelham, (1844-1930), Admiral
- Allardyce, Sir William Lamond, (1861-1930), Knight, colonial governor
- Armitage, Albert Borlase, (1864-1943), Captain Antarctic Explorer
- Atkinson, Edward Leicester, (1882-1929), Surgeon Captain
- Austin, Sir Horatio Thomas, (d 1865), Knight, Vice Admiral
- Babbage, Charles, (1792-1871), mathematician
- Back, Sir George, (1796-1878), Knight, Admiral and Arctic navigator
- Bagshawe, Thomas Wyatt, (1901-1976), geologist and author
- Barne, Michael, (1877-1961), Captain RN Antarctic Explorer
- Barrie, Sir James Matthew, (1860-1937), 1st baronet, playwright, novelist Kirriemuir, Angus
- Barrow, Sir John, (1764-1848), 1st Baronet Secretary of the Admiralty Travel Writer
- Barrow, John, (1808-1898), Lieutenant Colonel
- Beaumont, Sir Lewis Anthony, (1847-1922), Knight, Admiral
- Bentham, Robert, (fl 1934-1938), Geologist
- Bernacchi, Louis Charles, (1876-1942), scientist and explorer
- Bertram, George Colin Lawder, (b 1911), Polar Scientist and Biologist
- Bowers, Henry Robertson, (1883-1912), Naval Officer Polar Explorer
- Brown, John, (1797-1861), geographer
- Brown, Robert, (1842-1895), explorer
- Brown, Robert Neal Rudmose, (1879-1957), geographer and botanist
- Bruce, Wilfrid Montagu, (1874-1953), Captain RN
- Bruce, William Speirs, (1867-1921), polar explorer and oceanographer
- Buchanan, John Young, (1844-1925), chemist and geographer
- Burton, William, (d 1988), stoker RN
- Chermside, Sir Herbert Charles, (1850-1929), Knight, Lieutenant General
- Cherry-Garrard, Apsley George Benet, (1886-1959), Antarctic Explorer
- Clifford, Sir Geoffrey Miles, (1897-1986), Knight Colonial Administrator
- Collinson, Sir Richard, (1811-1883), Knight Admiral
- Courtauld, Augustine, (1904-1959), Arctic Explorer
- Cross, Jacob, (fl1900-1935), sailor and Antarctic explorer
- Crozier, Francis Rawdon Moira, (c 1796-1848), Captain RN
- Curzon, George Nathaniel, (1859-1925), Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, statesman
- Darwin, Leonard, (1850-1943), eugenist
- David, Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth, (1858-1934), Knight Lieutenant Colonel Antarctic Explorer Geologist
- Debenham, Frank, (1883-1965), geographer
- Dell, James William, (fl 1921-1922), Antarctic explorer
- Drewrey, David John , (1947), glaciologist and geophysicist
- Dunlop, Henry, (b 1876), chief engineer
- Edwards, John I, (fl 1955), arctic explorer
- Egerton, Sir George Le Clerc, (1852-1940), Knight, Admiral, Second Sea Lord
- Evans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell, (1881-1957), 1st Baron Mountevans, Admiral
- Ferrar, Hartley Travers, (1879-1932), Geologist
- Forder, Henry, (fl 1830-1894), Captain of the Hold, Royal Navy
- Franklin, Jane, (1792-1875), traveller and social reformer
- Franklin, Sir John, (1786-1847), Knight Rear Admiral Arctic Explorer
- Fuchs, Sir Vivian Ernest, (1908-1999), Knight Explorer
- Garwood, Edmund Johnston, (1864-1949), Geologist
- Giffard, George Augustus, (1849-1925), Admiral
- Gould, Rupert Thomas, (1890-1948), Lieutenant Commander Writer
- Gregory, John Walter, (1864-1932), geologist
- Hamilton, Richard , (20th cent), Arctic explorer
- Harland, Walter Brian, (1917-2003), geologist
- Harmer, Sir Sidney Frederic, (1862-1950), Knight, zoologist
- Hayward, Victor George, (1887-1916), member of Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition
- Herbert, Walter William, (1934-2007), Knight, polar explorer, writer and artist
- Hoare, Augustus Reginald , (19th-20th cent), Reverend, missionary Alaska
- Hodgson, Thomas Vere, (1864-1926), marine biologist
- Hollin, John Trevor, (1930-2016), glaciologist
- Jackson, Frederick George, (1860-1938), Major, Arctic explorer Alcester, Warwickshire
- James, Reginald William, (1891-1964), Physicist
- John, David Dilwyn, (b 1901), Zoologist
- Keltie, Sir John Scott, (1840-1927), Knight, geographer
- Kirby, William, (1759-1850), Rector of Barham Entomologist
- La Trobe, Peter, (1795-1863), Moravian Pastor
- Lack, David Lambert, (1910-1973), ornithologist
- Larkman, Alfred Herbert, (fl 1914-1917), Antarctic explorer
- Lashly, William, (1867-1940), Antarctic explorer
- Levick, George Murray, (1876-1956), Surgeon Commander
- Lillie, Denis Gascoigne, (1888-1963), Marine Zoologist
- Lister, Hal, (1921-2010), geographer, polar explorer
- MacKay, Alister Forbes, (fl 1909), polar explorer
- Mackintosh, Aeneas Lionel Acton, (fl 1914-1917), Antarctic explorer
- Mackintosh, Neil Alison, (1900-1974), marine biologist
- Macklin, Alexander Hepburne, (fl 1921-1956), Antarctic explorer
- Markham, Sir Albert Hastings, (1841-1918), knight, admiral, arctic explorer
- Markham, Sir Clements Robert, (1830-1916), Knight, geographer and historian
- Marr, James William Slesser, (1902-1965), Zoologist
- Marshall, Eric Stewart, (1879-1963), Surgeon
- Mawson, Sir Douglas, (1882-1958), Knight Geologist and Antarctic Explorer
- McClintock, Francis Leopold, (1819-1907), Knight Admiral Arctic Explorer
- McKenzie, Edward Archibald, (d 1972), leading stoker on board Terra Nova
- Meldrum, David, (fl1974-2015), physicist and polar scientist
- Mill, Hugh Robert, (1861-1950), geographer and meteorologist
- Mills, Leif, (1936-2020), trade union leader
- Mogg, William, (fl 1905-1906), captain of the schooner Bonanza
- Mossman, Robert Cockburn, (1870-1940), meteorologist
- Mullock, Philip James, (1933-2015), mathematician
- Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, (1792-1871), 1st Baronet geologist
- Murray, George Robert Milne, (1858-1911), Botanist
- Murray, Sir John, (1841-1914), Knight, naturalist and oceanographer
- Nansen, Fridtjof, (1861-1930), Norwegian Polar explorer
- Nares, Sir George Strong, (1831-1915), Knight Admiral Arctic Explorer
- Natriss, E A, (1881-1960), Shipping Officer to the Discovery Investigations Committee
- Ninnis, Aubrey Howard, (fl 1914-1917), Antarctic explorer
- Oates, Lawrence Edward Grace, (1880-1912), Antarctic Explorer
- Odell, Noel Ewart, (1890-1987), Geologist
- Orde-Lees, Thomas, (fl 1916), Antarctic explorer
- Osborn, Sherard, (1822-1875), Rear Admiral and Author
- Parry, Caleb Hillier, (1755-1822), Physician
- Parry, Edward, (1830-1890), Suffragan Bishop of Dover
- Parry, Sir William Edward, (1790-1855), Knight Rear Admiral Arctic Explorer
- Penny, William, (1809-1892), sea captain and Arctic explorer
- Phipps, Constantine John, (1744-1792), 2nd Baron Mulgrave, Arctic explorer
- Ponting, Herbert George, (1871-1935), Antarctic explorer, photographer and author
- Priestley, Sir Raymond Edward, (1886-1974), Knight, Knight Geologist
- Pritchard, Peter Michael Maddock, (b 1918), medical practitioner and author
- Quar, Leslie, (1923-1951), Antarctic explorer
- Rae, John, (1813-1893), Arctic explorer
- Rawson, Wyatt, (1853-1882), Arctic Explorer
- Richards, Richard Walter, (1893-1985), Antarctic explorer
- Richardson, Sir John, (1787-1865), Knight, surgeon, Arctic explorer and naturalist
- Roberts, Brian Birley, (1912-1978), polar explorer
- Robin, Gordon de Quetteville, (1921-2004), polar scientist Melbourne, Victoria
- Ross, Sir James Clark, (1800-1862), Knight, Rear Admiral, Arctic and Antarctic explorer
- Ross, Sir John, (1777-1856), Knight Rear Admiral Arctic Navigator
- Rowett, John Quiller, (fl 1920-1922), sponsor of Sir Ernest Shackleton's last expedition
- Royds, Sir Charles William Rawson, (1876-1931), Knight Vice Admiral
- Ryder, Robert Edward Dudley, (1908-1986), explorer and politician
- Rymill, John Riddoch, (1905-1968), polar explorer
- Sabine, Sir Edward, (1788-1883), Knight, General, geophysicist
- Schuster, Sir Arthur, (1851-1934), Knight, physicist
- Scoresby, William, (1787-1857), Arctic Navigator
- Scott, Robert Falcon, (1868-1912), Captain RN and Antarctic explorer
- Shackleton, Edward Arthur, (1911-1994), Baron Shackleton, politician
- Shackleton, Emily Mary, (1868-1936), Lady Shackleton
- Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry, (1874-1922), Knight, explorer
- Simpson, Sir George Clarke, (1878-1965), Knight and meteorologist
- Skelton, Sir Reginald William, (1872-1956), Knight Engineer Vice Admiral
- Smith, Benjamin Leigh, (1828-1913), explorer
- Smith, Reginald John, (1857-1916), barrister and publisher
- Southwell, Thomas, (1831-1909), Naturalist
- Spencer-Smith, Arnold Patrick, (1883-1916), clergyman and amateur photographer
- Speyer, Sir Edgar, (1862-1932), 1st Baronet, financier and philanthropist
- Stenhouse, Joseph Russell, (fl 1914-1917), Antarctic explorer
- Stevens, Alexander, (fl 1914-1917), Antarctic explorer
- Taylor, Thomas Griffith, (1880-1963), Geographer
- Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, Ranulf, (b 1944), Explorer
- Watts, Harold, (fl 1921-1922), Antarctic explorer
- Weddell, James, (1787-1834), Antarctic Explorer
- Whymper, Edward, (1840-1911), wood engraver and mountaineer
- Wild, John Robert Francis, (1873-1939), Antarctic Explorer
- Wilkins, Sir George Hubert, (1888-1958), Knight Explorer
- Wilson, Edward Adrian, (1872-1912), naturalist and Antarctic explorer
- Wordie, Sir James Mann, (1889-1962), Knight, geologist and mountaineer
- Worsley, Frank Arthur, (1872-1943), Arctic Explorer
- Wright, Sir Charles Seymour, (1887-1975), Knight, scientist
- Young, Kathleen, (1878-1947), Baroness Kennet, sculptor
Families (2)
- Cherry-Garrard family of Lamer Lamer, Hertfordshire;Denford, Berkshire;Kintbury, Berkshire;Little Wittenham, Berkshire;Sandridge, Hertfordshire;Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire;Newington, Kent;Sittingbourne, Kent;London;Holborn, Middlesex;Floore, Northamptonshire;Bath, Somerset;Coventry, Warwickshire;Ludgershall, Wiltshire
- Oates family of Gestingthorpe Hall Gestingthorpe Hall, Essex
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (8)
- NRA 33464 Henry Robertson Bowers, polar explorer: corresp and papers
- NRA 38492 EA Nattriss, shipping officer to the Discovery Investigations Committee: corresp and papers
- NRA 29684 Sir John Richardson, Arctic explorer: corresp
- NRA 44067 Edward Arthur Shackleton, Baron Shackleton: diaries, corresp and papers
- NRA 44069 Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, explorer, and John Quiller Rowett: papers rel to the Shackleton-Rowett
- NRA 44093 Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, explorer: diaries, corresp and papers
- NRA 44068 Joseph Russell Stenhouse, Antarctic explorer: papers rel to the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
- NRA 37960 James Weddell, Antarctic explorer: papers
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