Hans Gundersen collection 1881

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Hans Gundersen collection 1881

Correspondence ( leaves)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6285403

Scott Polar Research Institute

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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...

Gundersen, Hans

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Hans Gundersen was a contemporary of the explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith (1828-1913) From the guide to the Hans Gundersen collection, 1881, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge) ...