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Organisations (10)
- Argentina-Chile Boundary Commission
- Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa
- British Association for the Advancement of Science London
- Geographical Club (dining club) London
- International Geographic Congress
- Palestine Association
- Peru-Bolivia Boundary Commission
- Royal Geographical Society London
- Survey of India Reunion
- Tristan da Cunha Fund
Persons (238)
- Ainsworth, William Francis, (1807-1896), geographer and geologist
- Airy, Sir George Biddell, (1801-1892), Knight, astronomer and mathematician
- Aldrich, Pelham, (1844-1930), Admiral
- Alexander, Sir James Edward, (1803-1885), Knight, General
- Alley, William, (fl 1660-1685), merchant
- Amundsen, Roald Engelbrecht Gravning, (1872-1928), Norwegian Polar Explorer
- Andrews, Ratcliff, (d 1934), historian
- Arden-Close, Sir Charles Frederick, (1865-1952), Knight Geographer
- Armitage, Albert Borlase, (1864-1943), Captain Antarctic Explorer
- Ashburnham, Sir Cromer, (1831-1917), Knight, Colonel, colonial governor
- Austen, Leo, (fl 1923-1925), colonial administrator
- Back, Sir George, (1796-1878), Knight, Admiral and Arctic navigator
- Baddeley, John Frederick, (1854-1940), Journalist and Traveller
- Baikie, William Balfour, (1825-1864), Naturalist and Philologist
- Bailey, Frederick Marshman, (1882-1967), Lieutenant Colonel Lepidopterist
- Baines, John Thomas, (1822-1875), artist and explorer
- Baker, Sir Samuel White, (1821-1893), Knight, traveller and explorer in Africa
- Balfour, Andrew, (fl 1850-1899), Commander RN
- Barclay, William Singer, (1871-1947), explorer
- Barrow, Sir John, (1764-1848), 1st Baronet Secretary of the Admiralty Travel Writer
- Beaufort, Sir Francis, (1774-1857), Knight, Rear Admiral, hydrographer
- Beaver, Stanley Henry, (1907-1984), geographer
- Beazeley, George Adam, (1870-1961), Colonel
- Beke, Charles Tilstone, (1800-1874), Abyssinian Explorer
- Belcher, Sir Edward, (1799-1877), Knight Admiral
- Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian, (1868-1926), traveller, archaeologist and government official
- Bernacchi, Louis Charles, (1876-1942), scientist and explorer
- Biscoe, John, (1794-1843), Explorer
- Bishop, Isabella Lucy, (1831-1904), traveller and author
- Bollaert, William, (1807-1876), Author and Explorer
- Brant, James, (d 1861), Diplomat
- Brooke, Sir James, (1803-1868), Knight Rajah of Sarawak
- Brown, John, (1797-1861), geographer
- Bruce, Clarence Dalrymple, (1862-1934), brigadier
- Buchanan, John Young, (1844-1925), chemist and geographer
- Burnes, Sir Alexander, (1805-1841), Knight, Indian political officer
- Burrard, Sir Sydney Gerald, (1860-1943), 7th Baronet Surveyor General of India
- Burton, Sir Richard Francis, (1821-1890), explorer, diplomat and author
- Bury, George Wyman, (1874-1920), explorer and naturalist
- Cameron, Charles Duncan, (1825-1870), diplomat
- Cameron, Verney Lovett, (1844-1894), African explorer
- Carruthers, Alexander Douglas Mitchell, (1882-1962), explorer and naturalist
- Caton-Thompson, Gertrude, (1888-1985), anthropologist and Egyptologist
- Chardin, Daniel, (d 1709), merchant and Mayor of Madras Madras, India
- Chardin, Sir John, (1643-1713), Knight, traveller, diplomat, jeweller
- Chesney, Francis Rawdon, (1789-1872), general explorer and surveyor
- Cochrane-Baillie, Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Ross, (1860-1940), 2nd Baron Lamington, Governor of Bombay
- Combe, Harvey Trewythen Brabazon, (1852-1923), soldier and traveller
- Conway, William Martin, (1856-1937), Baron Conway of Allington, art critic
- Cooley, William Desborough, (d 1883), Geographer
- Copeland, Ralph, (1837-1905), Astronomer
- Corney, Bolton Glanville, (1851-1924), Geographer
- Cox, Sir Percy Zachariah, (1864-1937), Knight Major General Colonial Administrator and Diplomat
- Crawfurd, John, (1783-1868), Orientalist Historian
- Crone, Gerald Roe, (1899-1982), Librarian at Royal Geographical Society
- Crozier, Francis Rawdon Moira, (c 1796-1848), Captain RN
- Curzon, George Nathaniel, (1859-1925), Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, statesman
- Cyriax, Richard Julius, (1897-1967), Author
- Darwin, Charles Robert, (1809-1882), naturalist
- Darwin, Sir George Howard, (1845-1912), Knight, mathematician and astronomer
- Davies, Henry Rudolph, (1865-1950), Major General
- Davis, William Morris, (1850-1934), geologist
- Denham, Dixon, (1786-1828), African Traveller
- Dewar, Sir James, (1842-1923), Knight, chemist
- Doughty, Charles Montagu, (1843-1926), poet and traveller
- Drake-Brockman, Ralph Evelyn, (1875-1952), Lieutenant Colonel Medical Officer
- Duncan, John, (1805-1849), African explorer
- Egerton, Francis, (1800-1857), 1st Earl of Ellesmere, politician, poet
- Elias, Ney, (1844-1897), Diplomat and Explorer
- Everest, Sir George, (1790-1866), Knight Military Engineer
- Fawcett, Percy Harrison, (1867-1925), Lieutenant Colonel Explorer
- Feilden, Henry Wemyss, (1838-1921), Lieutenant Colonel Naturalist
- FitzRoy, Robert, (1805-1865), MP, Governor of New Zealand, Vice Admiral and meteorologist
- Fordham, Sir Herbert George, (1854-1929), Knight, writer on cartography
- Franklin, Jane, (1792-1875), traveller and social reformer
- Franklin, Sir John, (1786-1847), Knight Rear Admiral Arctic Explorer
- Freeman, Thomas Walter, (fl 1974-1988), Geographer
- Freshfield, Douglas William, (1845-1934), Mountaineer and Geographer
- Galton, Sir Francis, (1822-1911), Knight, eugenist, meteorologist, psychologist
- Gardner, Elinor Wight, (1892-1980), geologist
- Geikie, James, (1839-1915), geologist
- Gill, Sir David, (1843-1914), Knight, astronomer
- Gill, William John, (1843-1882), Captain Royal Engineers Surveyor and Traveller
- Glaisher, James Whitbread Lee, (1848-1928), Mathematician Astronomer
- Godwin-Austen, Henry Haversham, (1834-1923), Naturalist
- Grant, James Augustus, (1827-1892), Lieutenant Colonel African Explorer
- Greenough, George Bellas, (1778-1855), geographer, geologist and cartographer
- Gregory, John Walter, (1864-1932), geologist
- Grenfell, George, (1849-1906), Baptist Missionary
- Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard, (1820-1889), antiquary and literary scholar
- Herbertson, Andrew John, (d 1914), Geographer
- Hertslet, Sir Edward, (1824-1902), Knight Foreign Office Librarian Archivist
- Hind, Henry Youle, (1823-1908), Geologist and Explorer
- Hinks, Arthur Robert, (1873-1945), Astronomer and Geographer
- Hodgkin, Thomas, (1798-1866), Physician and Philanthropist
- Hodson, Sir Arnold Wienholt, (1881-1944), Knight Colonial Governor Explorer
- Holdich, Sir Thomas Hungerford, (1843-1929), Knight Surveyor
- Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton, (1817-1911), Knight, botanist, explorer, Director of Kew Gardens
- Hooker, Sir William Jackson, (1785-1865), Knight, botanist Norwich, Norfolk
- Hosie, Sir Alexander, (1853-1925), Knight, diplomat and Chinese explorer
- Hudson, Corrie, (1874-1958), Major General
- Hume, Joseph, (1777-1855), politician
- Hunt, Henry Cecil John, (1910-1998), Baron Hunt of Llanfair Waterdine, brigadier, mountaineer
- Isbister, Alexander Kennedy, (1822-1883), educational writer
- Jackson, Julian, (1790-1853), Colonel Geographer
- Jackson, Sir Keith Alexander, (1798-1843), 2nd Baronet, Indian administrator
- Jackson, Sir Keith George, (1842-1916), 4th Baronet Soldier
- Jeffery, Walter Hugh, (1878-1957), Colonel Indian Army
- Jennings-Bramly, Wilfrid Edgar, (1871-1960), businessman and traveller in Egypt
- Jervis, Thomas Best, (1796-1857), Engineer and Surveyor
- Johnston, Alexander Keith, (1844-1879), geographer
- Johnston, Sir Henry Hamilton, (1858-1927), Knight, explorer and colonial administrator
- Keltie, Sir John Scott, (1840-1927), Knight, geographer
- King, William Joseph Harding, (1869-1933), explorer, writer
- Kingdon-Ward, Francis, (1885-1958), botanist
- Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, (1862-1900), traveller and writer
- Kirk, Sir John, (1832-1922), Knight, naturalist and political agent
- Kirwan, Sir Archibald Laurence Patrick, (1907-1999), Knight Archaeologist and Geographer
- Larmor, Sir Joseph, (1857-1942), Knight, physicist
- Leighton, Stanley, (1837-1901), MP
- Livingstone, David, (1813-1873), explorer and missionary
- Lloyd, John Augustus, (1800-1854), engineer and surveyor
- Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman, (1836-1920), Knight Astronomer
- Loder, John de Vere, (1895-1970), 2nd Baron Wakehurst, Colonial Governor
- Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry, (1858-1945), Baron Lugard, colonial administrator, soldier and author
- Mackinder, Sir Halford John, (1861-1947), Knight, Knight MP Geographer
- Maclear, Sir Thomas, (1794-1879), Knight Astronomer
- Maconochie, Alexander, (1787-1860), Governor of Norfolk Island
- Malcolm, Sir John, (1769-1833), Knight, Indian administrator and diplomat
- Malcolm, Sir Neill, (1869-1953), Knight Major General
- Markham, Sir Clements Robert, (1830-1916), Knight, geographer and historian
- Markham, Violet Rosa, (1872-1959), Liberal activist and public servant
- 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
- Migeod, Frederick William Hugh, (1872-1952), Colonial Administrator Botanist
- Mill, Hugh Robert, (1861-1950), geographer and meteorologist
- Mitchell, Sir Thomas Livingstone, (1792-1855), Knight Explorer
- Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, (1792-1871), 1st Baronet geologist
- Murray, George William Walsh, (1885-1966), Surveyor and Author
- Nansen, Fridtjof, (1861-1930), Norwegian Polar explorer
- Newall, Hugh Frank, (1857-1944), Astrophysicist
- Nicholson, Edward Max, (1904-2003), ornithologist and environmentalist
- Noel, Emilia Frances, (d 1950), Botanist
- Ogilvie, Alan Grant, (1887-1954), geographer
- Ogilvie-Grant, William Robert, (1863-1924), zoologist
- Oliphant, Laurence, (1829-1888), diplomatist, traveller and mystic
- Oliver, Samuel Pasfield, (1838-1907), geographer and antiquary
- Ommanney, Sir Erasmus, (1814-1904), Knight Admiral Arctic Explorer
- O'Neill, Henry Edward, (d 1925), British Consul in Mozambique
- Parish, Sir Woodbine, (1796-1882), Knight, Knight Diplomat
- Parkyns, Mansfield, (1823-1894), Traveller and Author
- Pearson, Charles William, (fl 1860-1890), missionary
- Peary, Robert Edwin, (1856-1920), Arctic Explorer
- Pereira, George Edward, (1865-1923), Brigadier General Traveller
- Petermann, August Heinrich, (1822-1878), German Cartographer
- Philby, Harry St John Bridger, (1885-1960), explorer and orientalist
- Phipson-Wybrants, Temple Leighton, (? 1845-1881), captain, explorer
- Popham, Home Riggs, (1762-1820), Knight, Rear Admiral
- Price, Morgan Philips, (1885-1973), MP and journalist
- Prichard, James Cowles, (1786-1848), Physician and Ethnologist
- Rae, John, (1813-1893), Arctic explorer
- Rawling, Cecil Godfrey, (1870-1917), Soldier and Explorer
- Rawlinson, Sir Henry Creswicke, (1810-1895), 1st Baronet Archaeologist Diplomat MP
- Rawson, Sir Rawson William, (1812-1899), Knight Colonial Governor
- Reade, William Winwood, (1838-1875), traveller and novelist
- Reid, George William, (1819-1887), Keeper of Prints and Drawings, British Museum
- Reid, Robert Lawrence, (1858-1916), mining engineer and surveyor
- Rennell, James, (1742-1830), Geographer
- Renouard, George Cecil, (1780-1867), Orientalist Classical Scholar and Historian
- Rice, Alexander Hamilton, (1875-1956), explorer and geographer
- Richardson, James, (1806-1851), African explorer
- Richardson, Sir John, (1787-1865), Knight, surgeon, Arctic explorer and naturalist
- Ridley, Henry Nicholas, (1855-1956), botanist, director of Botanic Gardens, Singapore
- Risley, Sir Herbert Hope, (1851-1911), Knight, Indian civil servant
- Rodd, Francis James Rennell, (1895-1978), 2nd Baron Rennell
- Ross, Sir James Clark, (1800-1862), Knight, Rear Admiral, Arctic and Antarctic explorer
- Ross, Sir John, (1777-1856), Knight Rear Admiral Arctic Navigator
- Routledge, William Scoresby, (1859-1939), Ethnographer
- Salvin, Osbert, (1835-1898), Naturalist
- Schomburgk, Sir Robert Hermann, (1804-1865), Knight, botanist
- Scott, Robert Falcon, (1868-1912), Captain RN and Antarctic explorer
- Selous, Frederick Courteney, (1851-1917), Rhodesian Pioneer
- Shackleton, Edward Arthur, (1911-1994), Baron Shackleton, politician
- Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry, (1874-1922), Knight, explorer
- Shakespear, William Henry Irvine, (1878-1915), Captain Indian Political Service
- Sharpe, Sir Alfred, (1853-1935), Knight and Colonial Governor
- Shipton, Eric Earle, (1907-1977), mountaineer
- Sladen, Sir Edward Bosc, (1827-1890), Knight Indian Army Officer
- Smyth, Charles Piazzi, (1819-1900), astronomer
- Smyth, William Henry, (1788-1865), Admiral, scientist and antiquary
- Snow, William Parker, (1817-1895), Mariner Explorer and Author
- Speke, John Hanning, (1827-1864), explorer in Africa
- Spruce, Richard, (1817-1893), botanist
- Stanley, Sir Henry Morton, (1841-1904), Knight, explorer and journalist
- Steers, J Alfred, (d 1987), geographer
- Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, (1879-1962), explorer and ethnologist
- Stein, Sir Mark Aurel, (1862-1943), Knight Scholar Explorer Archaeologist
- Stigand, Chauncy Hugh, (1877-1919), Soldier Governor of Upper Nile
- Stirling, Edward Hamilton, (1797-1873), explorer
- Straight, Whitney Willard, (1912-1979), Air Commodore
- Strong, Walter Mersh, (1873-1946), geographer
- Stuart, John Mcdouall, (1815-1866), Explorer
- Sturt, Charles, (1795-1869), Australian Explorer
- Sykes, Sir Mark, (1879-1919), 6th Baronet Sykes, 6th Baronet MP Traveller
- Sykes, William Henry, (1790-1872), MP, naturalist, army officer and author
- Tate, Godfrey, (1873-1944), Major General Indian Army
- Temple, Sir Grenville, (1799-1847), 10th Baronet Lieutenant General
- Terry, Michael, (1899-1981), explorer
- Thesiger, Sir Wilfred Patrick, (1910-2003), Knight, diplomat, author and traveller
- Thomas, Bertram Sidney, (1892-1950), diplomat explorer author
- Thomas, David, (fl 1960-1980), anthropologist
- Thomson, Joseph, (1858-1894), African explorer
- Tilman, Harold William, (b 1898), mountaineer and sailor
- Turner, Herbert Hall, (1861-1930), astronomer and seismologist
- Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, Ranulf, (b 1944), Explorer
- Vandeleur, Seymour, (1869-1901), Major, traveller
- Vereker, Foley Charles Prendergast, (1850-1900), Naval Commander
- Walker, James Thomas, (1826-1896), General Royal Engineers Surveyor General of India
- Wallace, Alfred Russel, (1823-1913), naturalist
- Washington, John, (1800-1863), Rear Admiral Hydrographer
- Watson, Sir Charles Moore, (1844-1916), Knight Colonel
- Waugh, Sir Andrew Scott, (1810-1878), Knight, Major General and Indian Surveyor General
- Webb, Ronald Stretton, (1892-1976), surveyor and cartographer
- Wedderburn, David, (1835-1882), 3rd Baronet, MP
- Wellcome, Sir Henry Solomon, (1853-1936), Knight, manufacturing chemist, Patron of Science and archaeologist
- Wellesley, William Henry George, (1806-1875), Captain RN
- Whymper, Edward, (1840-1911), wood engraver and mountaineer
- Wilding, Edward, (1875-1939), Naval Architect
- Wilson, Sir Arnold Talbot, (1884-1940), Knight Soldier Explorer Politician Author
- Wilson, Edward Adrian, (1872-1912), naturalist and Antarctic explorer
- Wingate, Sir Francis Reginald, (1861-1953), 1st Baronet General
- Wollaston, Alexander Fredrick Richmond, (1875-1930), naval surgeon and explorer
- Woods, Henry Charles, (1881-1939), Author and Journalist
- Young, Sir Allen William, (1827-1915), Knight Polar Explorer
- Younghusband, Sir Francis Edward, (1863-1942), Knight Soldier Diplomat Explorer and Mystic
- Younghusband, Sir George John, (1859-1944), Knight Major General
- Yule, Sir Henry, (1820-1889), Knight, geographer and Indian administrator
Diaries (11)
- Archer, Amelia, (fl 1885-1975), Emigrant Argentina;Chile
- Carey, Arthur D India;Tibet;China
- Carruthers, Douglas Syria;Lebanon
- Crawford, James Dundas, (fl 1870-1878), travel diarist China
- Evans, E E, (fl 1929), professor, travel diarist
- Falcon, Norman L Persia;Edge Island
- Gardner, Emilie, (fl 1930), travel diarist Syria;Palestine;Egypt;Turkey
- Gosling, G B Nigeria;Sudan
- Hayles, Dorothy M Germany;Switzerland;Belgium
- Johnston, Dorothy E India
- Marriott, George Wharton
Families (2)
- Parkyns family, baronets, of Bunny Bunny, Nottinghamshire;Tilehurst, Berkshire;Walmer, Kent;Dadlington, Leicestershire;Wymeswold, Leicestershire;Bradmore, Nottinghamshire;East Leake, Nottinghamshire;Sutton Bonnington, Nottinghamshire;Pett, Sussex
- Vereker family, Viscounts Gort East Cowes, Isle of Wight;Whippingham, Isle of Wight;St Pancras, Middlesex;Oatlands, County Limerick;Roxborough, County Limerick