William Lamond Allardyce collection 1908 - 1915

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William Lamond Allardyce collection 1908 - 1915

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Letters, accounts, volumes, notice and reports

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Scott Polar Research Institute

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Scott Polar Research Institute

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Allardyce, William Lamond, 1861-1930.

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William Lamond Allardyce

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William Lamond Allardyce was born in India in 1861. He entered Oxford Military College in Scotland at sixteen and began his career as a Colonial Service cadet in Fiji. He became Governor of the Falkland Islands in 1904. His eleven-year term as Governor of the Falkland Islands (1904 - 1915) covered an exciting period, which included the advent of modern whaling, the establishment of the Falkland Island Dependencies, the introduction of wireless communication in the Antarctic, and the...