Stephen Gwynn collection 1929

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...

Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950

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Stephen Gwynn was born in 1864 in Ireland. He became a journalist in 1896 in London and an MP in Ireland 1906 to 1918 From the guide to the Stephen Gwynn collection, 1929, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge) Poet, journalist, and author. From the description of Papers of Stephen Lucius Gwynn, 1896-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455167 Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1862-1900) was a British traveller and author. ...

Gwynn Stephen b 1864

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Shackleton Emily Mary 1868-1936

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Scott, Robert Falcon, 1868-1912

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Epithet: Captain British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001512.0x00006d ...