Charles Dorman collection 1893-1901

Shackleton, Ernest Henry, 1874-1922

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Ernest Shackleton, leader of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and part of two other Antarctic expeditions, acquired Polaris after her owner's financial trouble. Renamed Endurance after the Shackleton family motto Fortitudine vincimus (By Endurance we Conquer), she sailed intending to accomplish the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent. She departed for her final voyage on December 15, 1914 but progress was slow, averaging about 30 miles per day through pack ice. A month later, w...

Dorman Charles Herbert d 1901

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Charles Herbert Dorman

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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,...