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Norwegian whaling manager, was born at Nedre Råel (in Slagen outside Tønsberg), the son of a blacksmith, Henrik Henriksen, who set up a workshop there in 1856 and specialised in harpoons and...

farmer and entrepreneur, was born in Basingstoke, Hants in 1866, son of Philip Hobbs and Elizabeth Mary, née Holmested.

He emigrated to the Falkland Islands as a young man to work as an apprentice...

chaplain, was born on 2 December 1882 at Lichfield, Staffs where his father, Charles Hobley, was choirmaster at the Cathedral; his mother was Mary Louise, née McDonald.

He undertook theological...

actor and television presenter, was born in Stanley on 9 June 1917. His birth certificate gives his name as above, although he was christened Denys Jack Valentine McDonald Hobley. He was the second...

lighthouse keeper, was born in the Falkland Islands on 8 June 1852, the son of James Henry Hocking senior, a military pensioner who had arrived in the Islands in 1849 with his wife Ann Elizabeth,...

naval officer, and commander of HMSSappho, which visited South Georgia in February 1906 – to investigate the newly established whaling station.Hodges was born on 29 September 1874, the son of...

governor, was born in Bovey Tracey, Devon on 12 February 1881, the son of Henry Algernon Hodson and Sara Wormald Wienholt.

He was educated in Italy and Mulgrave Castle School, Yorkshire.

At the age...

was born in Brocking, Essex, the son of Dr. George Cook Holmested and his wife Mary, née Nottidge. The family had been long established in Brocking, near Braintree, Ernest's father being fourth in...

(also Malcolm) teacher, was born in Kingskettle, Fife, Scotland, on 1 August 1903, the son of Andrew Honeyman and Annie Honeyman, née Paterson Smith. He was educated at Kingskettle Primary and at...

botanist, was born in Halesworth, Suffolk on 30 June 1817, the son of William Jackson Hooker and Maria Hooker, daughter of Dawson Turner, a Norfolk banker and amateur naturalist. William Hooker...

naval officer, was born in Scotland in 1798, the second son of Charles Hope, lord president of the Court of Session in Scotland, and Charlotte, daughter of John, second Earl of Hopetoun. He entered...

botanical artist, born at Tipperary, Ireland on 8 August 1887, daughter of William Howe-Hennis and Elizabeth Charlotte Howe-Hennis, part of a well-respected Protestant family, among them several...

sub-Lieutenant RNVR, MBE, meteorologist, member of Operation ‘Tabarin’ team and Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) was born 3 October 1919 in Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, His parents...

Naval officer, DSC (and Bar) governor's ADC and Antarctic explorer, was born on 22 June 1924 at Abbot’s Langley; his father was the manager of a local paper mill. He was educated at Berkhamsted...

was probably born in Plymouth around 1734. He entered the navy in 1743 as captain's servant on board the Argyle. After serving in a number of ships he passed for lieutenant and was promoted to that...

governor, was born on 29 June, 1926 in Redcar, Yorkshire, the son of Henry William Hunt and Ivy, née Masterman. He was educated at Sir William Turner's School, Coatham and St Peter's College,...

Swiss missionary, was probably born in November 1836 at Oberkulm in the Swiss Canton of Aargau.

He was trained by the Pilgrim Mission at St Chrischona near Basle. He left Southampton for Montevideo...

FIC director, MP and baron, was born on 2 May 1901, the third son of Percy and Hannah Hurd.

His father was MP for Frome 1918-23 and Devizes 1924-45. His two elder brothers were killed in the Great...

wildlife artist, was born in 1952 to Charles MADDOCKS (1924-2012) and Iris May Porter (1929 – 2012). Charles and Iris were married in September 1950 in Stanley.

Charles Maddocks was born in...

soldier, was born on 26 August 1893 in Ennis, Co Clare, only son of Dr William Henry Hynes and his wife, née Petty.

He was privately educated and joined the Royal Dublin Fusiliers from Sandhurst in...

ship’s officer, chief blubber cooker, whaling station manager, company director and vice-president for the Compañia Argentina de Pesca Sociedad Anónima (Pesca) of Buenos Aires was one of the first...

bishop, was born on Guernsey on 3 January 1866, the third son of Carey Brock De Jersey. After his university years at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, he was ordained in 1891. He served...

naval officer and privateer, was born in North Parish, New London, Conn, on 17 June 1772. His signature is always David Jewett, but in a couple of signatures, written flamboyantly, it can be...

fishing, whaling and sealing entrepreneur, was born on 21 March 1867 in Hjälmseryd parish near the town of Växjö in the southern Swedish province of Småland. At the age of twelve he ran away to the...