Alexander Fairweather collection 1889
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Fairweather, Alexander
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Alexander Fairweather was a contemporary of the polar explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith (1826-1913) From the guide to the Alexander Fairweather collection, 1889, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge) ...
Smith, Benjamin Leigh, 1828-1913
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Benjamin Leigh Smith was born on 12 March 1828 at Whatlington, Sussex. He was educated at the Nonconformist Bruce Castle School and, in 1848, was elected a pensioner of Jesus College, Cambridge, becoming the first dissenter to receive a BA degree. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1856, but never practised. Smith embarked on his first voyage to the Arctic in 1871 when he sailed in the ketch Samson to Svalbard on the British Exploring Expedition, reaching la...
