Ann Margaret Savours, the polar historian, was educated at London University and the Sorbonne, spending a year as honorary research fellow in the School of Pacific Studies of the Australian National University in Canberra. From 1954 to 1966 she worked for the Scott Polar Research Institute, and from 1970 to 1987 for the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, where she was in charge of the Arctic Gallery and closely involved with the shipboard Discovery exhibition in Dundee. She has participated in expeditions to Spitsbergen and Macquarie Island. She is a long standing Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a council member of the Hakluyt Society and is a former Honorary Secretary of the Society for Nautical Research.
Published work The voyages of the Discovery, the illustrated history of Scott's ship by Ann Margaret Savours, Chatham Publishing, London (2001) SPRI Library Shelf 629.12[Discovery] and Scott's last voyage; through the Antarctic camera of Herbert Ponting edited by Ann Margaret Savours, Sidgwick & Jackson, London (1974) SPRI Library Shelf (7)91(08)[1910-1913 Scott] The search for the Northwest Passage by Ann Margaret Savours, Chatham Publishing, London (1999) SPRI Library Shelf (48). She is also the author of numerous articles.
From the guide to the Ann Savours collection, [1960-1961], (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)
