Dennis Gascoigne Lillie was born in 1884. He was educated at Cambridge University and served as biologist on Terra Nova during the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913 (leader Robert Falcon Scott). He was mainly concerned with collecting marine specimens and was also responsible for the expedition's official report on this subject. He made a number of penetrating caricatures of the expedition members while on board ship, some of which were later redrawn by Edward Adrian Wilson for the expedition newspaper The South Polar Times . He was awarded the Polar Medal.
After the expedition, he spent some time studying whales off New Zealand. During the First World War, he became involved in medical research, but had a mental breakdown in 1919 from which he never recovered. He died in 1963.
From the guide to the Dennis Lillie collection, 1911-1918, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)
