William Grant collection 1880-1881

William John Alexander Grant

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William John Alexander Grant was born on 1 May 1851. He was educated at Harrow and at Merton College, Oxford, where he learned the art of photography. In 1876, he was appointed photographer on the British Relief Expedition (leader Allen Young), instructed by the Admiralty to land dispatches in the region of Baffin Bay for George Strong Nares of the British Arctic Expedition, 1875-1876. Between 1878 and 1883, Grant made a further four voyages to the Arctic in the Dutch schooner Willem Barents, an...

British Exploring Expedition Svalbard and Russian Arctic 1880

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Baxter, William

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Epithet: Master of the Mercers' School, London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001091.0x00003a ...

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...

Grant William John Alexander 1851-1935

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