author and lexicographer, was born in Lichfield, Staffs on 7 September 1709, the elder son of Michael Johnson, bookseller, and Sarah Johnson, née Ford. He was educated at Lichfield Grammar School,...

ship's captain, was born in Whitehead, Co Antrim, on 3 March 1908, the son of Captain George Allen Johnston and his wife Isobella, née Downey. He was educated at Whitehead School and left at 16 to...

colonial secretary, was born on 30 August 1921 in Croydon, Surrey, the son of William Peters Jones and Stella Jones. His father had been an army chaplain in World War I and was vicar in Croydon.

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colonist in Patagonia, was born at Penaer, Llanfair-talhaern, Denbighshire, the seventh son of Charles Jones and his wife Jane. The family moved regularly, influenced by Charles Jones's role as one...

biologist, was born in Kensington, London on 14 July 1882, the second of the six children of Stephen Benjamin Kemp, professor of music, and his wife Clara Wells, née Beasley.

He was educated at St....

director of civil aviation, was born in Arbroath, Scotland on 17 June 1922, the eldest of eight children.

He went to local schools and when he left school took up an apprenticeship at a local...

governor, was born in 1818 in the West Indies, the son of David C Kerr, a commissary (military supply officer). He spent almost all his life in the Caribbean, entered the public service in 1855 and...

businessman, was born on 15 July 1923 in Hertfordshire. The family moved to Australia for a time, returning to England when he was 11 and settling in West Sussex. He left school at the age of 15...

councillor, was born in Stanley on 12 May 1930, the third child of Alexander Pitaluga and Eva Amelia, née Hansen. Alexander was the manager of Gibraltar Station at San Salvador on East Falkland,...

printer, was born in 47 Fitzroy Road, Stanley on 11 February 1921 to Fred King and Ella, née Biggs. King spent his childhood next door at 49, and moved to 39 Fitzroy Road when he was married,...

German sea-captain, circumnavigator, polar explorer and whaler became in 1936 the manager of the first German pelagic whaling company to operate in the Antarctic following a period spent gaining...

Roman Catholic priest, was a native of Dublin. He studied at the Jesuit College in Montevideo and it was there that dimissorial* letters were issued in his favour on 12 May 1854 for major orders...

character, was a mystery person. No documentary records of her existence have ever been found, but stories about her have been legion at Port Stephens, West Falklands, since the area was first...

Bohemian traveller and artist (South Georgia), was born in Prague, (then in the Austro Hungarian Empire, now in the Czech Republic), on 3 May 1848.

His father Franz Klutschak was chief editor and...

German doctor and polar researcher (South Georgia), author, ethnologist and prehistorian, was born on 5 April 1884, the son of the prison administrator Kohl in Landau/Palatinate in Germany.

In 1904...

German sea-captain, whaler and polar explorer was the first known German to undertake modern whaling in the Antarctic and in 1936 became catch manager on the first German pelagic whaling expedition...

doctor at Grytviken and in the Falklands, was born 28 January 1896 in Halle, Germany to Alfred Krauss and Margarete Krauss née Aschenheim. He attended Freiburg University, and he graduated as an...

skipper and whaler, was born in the village of Ramnes, near the coastal whaling port of Tønsberg, Norway on 11 November 1892, one of five children of Kristoffer Hansen and his wife Kristiane...

merchant, was born in Liverpool on 14 May 1807, the son of Samuel Lafone and Mary, née Ellison. His father and grandfather were Liverpool merchants with close connections with the leather tanning...

merchant was born in Liverpool on 6 August 1805, son of Samuel Lafone, broker and tanner of Huguenot stock, and Mary Lafone, née Ellison. He was one of a large family and his younger brother...

FIC manager, may have been the son of a Theophilus Lane, a solicitor in Hereford at the end of the eighteenth century. James Lane appears in the Law year book from the 1840s as an attorney working...

naval officer and colonist, was born on 6 November 1790 at Montacute vicarage in Somerset, the fifth son of the Rev William Langdon.

At 13, Langdon approached the retired Admiral Hood and with his...

Norwegian sea-captain, whaler and leader of scientific expeditions, was born on 7 August 1860 the son of Ellen Andrea née Ingebrigtsen and Captain Ole Christian Larsen from Østre Halsen outside...

see KOHL-LARSEN

master-mariner and pioneer whaler, was the elder brother of Captain CA LARSEN. In November 1904, as his second-in-command, he helped to establish the whaling station at Grytviken on South Georgia...