Charles Herbert Dorman

Charles Herbert Dorman was a partner in Kingsford Dorman, a firm of solicitors near the Law Courts in the Strand. The family had a country home in Sussex and Dorman was one of the first private orchid-growers in England. He and his wife, Janie Swinford, had three sons, Herbert, Frank and Arthur, and three daughters, Julia, Emily and Maud [Daisy]. Emily was to marry the explorer Ernest Shackleton. Charles Dorman died in 1901.

From the guide to the Charles Dorman collection, 1893-1901, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)