Paul Hodder-Williams collection 1957-1958

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...

Paul Hodder-Williams

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Paul Hodder-Williams was born in 1910. He was educated at Rugby School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. In 1931, he joined the publishing firm Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. and was appointed director in 1937, later serving as chairman from 1961 until 1975. During the Second World War, he served with an artillery company and the London Welsh heavy anti-aircraft regiment and was awarded the OBE in 1945. From the guide to the Paul Hodder-Williams collection, 1957-1958, (Scott Po...

Worsley, Frank Arthur, 1872-1943

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Joint leader of the British Arctic Expedition, 1925. From the description of Journal and log-books [microform]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225845758 Captain of "Endurance" on the British Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917, under the command of Sir Ernest Shackleton. From the description of Journals [microform]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225845749 Frank Arthur Worsley was born at Akaroa, New Zealand, on 22 ...

Hodder-Williams Paul b 1910

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Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, publishers

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