William Beardmore collection 1922

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...

Beardmore, William

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Beardmore, William

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William Beardmore was born on 16 October 1856 at Greenwich, London. He was educated at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow, and at the Royal School of Mines, South Kensington, before serving his apprenticeship at his father's Parkhead Forge in Glasgow. On the death of his father in 1879, he became a partner in his engineering business and later founded William Beardmore & Company, a firm of naval ship builders and armour plate manufacturers based in Glasgow. After e...

Mill, Hugh Robert, 1861-1950

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Hugh Robert Mill was born at Thurso, Scotland, on 28 May 1861. He read chemistry and physics at Edinburgh University and specialised in marine chemistry, working on the scientific reports of the Challenger expedition under Sir John Murray. In 1887, he became lecturer in geography and physiography at Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh, and four years later, published The realm of nature, an important textbook of scientific geography. In 1892, he was appointed librarian of the Royal Geogr...