whaling captain, was the son and last of the seven surviving children of the renowned Antarctic whaler and polar explorer Captain Carl Anton LARSEN. In January 1906, as a babe in arms, he arrived...

biologist and science administrator, was born on 23 April 1926 in Whitley Bay, Northumberland, second of three sons of Percy Malcolm Laws and Florence May Laws (née Heslop).

Attending Park Primary...

chief secretary, was born on 12 December 1933, the son of Thomas Malcolm Layng and Mabel Kathleen, née Hayward. His father had a diverse career in the army, the church and academia and Layng's...

Spanish naval officer. In 1803 Leal was attached to the Spanish naval command in Montevideo as a teniente de navío, where he was given command of the corvette Atrevida and sent to the Spanish...

zoo keeper and collector, was French, supposedly a sailor, who was discovered working with animals at a pleasure garden in London and recruited for the London Zoo as a keeper. The Council of the...

shepherd and patriarch, came from Surrey and was employed by the Falkland Islands Company in October 1856.

He travelled from London on the Nithsdale, tending a flock of pedigree sheep and a...

town clerk, was born on 25 January 1910 in Stanley, the second son of Albert Lellman and Frances, née Rowlands.

His grandfather Josef jumped ship in 1870 to avoid the Franco-Prussian War, in which...

Baha'i and photographer, was born John Alfred Levy on 15 February 1922 in Manhattan, New York, which is also where he grew up. His father was a photographer: his mother thought his studio would be...

French natural scientist and naval pharmacist, was born near Rochefort on 20 March 1794, the son of a clerk in the French navy. Lesson made his career in the naval medical service being largely...

governor, was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 26 September 1918, the son of George Henry Lewis. He was educated at Otago Boys' High School and Otago University. He served with the Second New...

Swedish explorer and tour operator, was born in Stockholm on 23 January 1927. His father was a wine expert in the Swedish Liquor Monopoly, and his mother was the daughter of a master cabinet-maker....

Norwegian Lutheran pastor and lecturer was born on 30 March 1885 in the village of Furnes near the town of Lillehammer some 110 miles north of Oslo He was one of six children of school board member...

colonial secretary, was born in St Pancras, London on 7 July 1827, one of seven children of John Robert Longden and Louisa Longden, née Culley.

He accompanied his mother, and his eldest sister...

colonial chaplain, ninth of twelve children of William Lory, Packet Captain RN and Anne Pearce, was born in 1839. He was ordained priest in 1865 by the bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. Apart from...

naval officer in charge, was born in Portsea, Hants in 1792, the son of Henry and Peggy Lowcay. He entered the Navy in January 1806 as a first class volunteer on board the 98 gun Prince of Wales,...

naval rating and hero, was awarded the Albert Medal (later the George Cross) for an act of heroism in Stanley harbour in 1948.

Lynch was born was born in Wallasey, Cheshire on 6 November 1912. He...

American naval officer, was born in Norfolk, Virginia on 1 April 1801. Appointed a midshipman in the US Navy on 26 January 1819, Lynch was first assigned to the frigate Congress, then served in the...

governor, was born at Surat (India), the son of Dr James Mackenzie and his wife Louisa Wilhelmina. Mackenzie must have joined the navy young, for he was awarded the Navarino clasp on his naval...

naval officer and author, was born on 21 April 1815, the second son of William Alexander Mackinnon, chief of the Clan Mackinnon, and Emma Mackinnon, née Palmer.

He entered the navy on 1 October...

Spanish naval officer. When in 1770 news reached Buenos Aires of the British settlement in Port Egmont, Governor Francisco de Paula Bucarelli y Ursua assembled a squadron of five frigates, under...

communicator, was born in Liverpool on 7 April 1924 the son of Charles Maddocks and Anne, née Swinchin.

He joined the Royal Navy during World War II and in 1944 was posted to the Falkland Islands...

dentist, was born at Newtownards, Co Down on 23 July 1916, son of James Mahood and Jane, née Russell. He was educated at the local Model School at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, and at...

Spanish naval officer, was born on 5 November 1754 in the tiny hamlet of Mulazzo in NW Italy, the younger son of the Marquis Carlo Malaspina and Catarina Meli Lupi di Soragno di Parma. As he was...

campaigner, was born in Stanley on 28 February 1930, daughter of Axel Pettersson, son of a shipwrecked Swedish seaman and Beatrice Petterson, née Reive.

A bright pupil in the Falklands, she won a...

British and Breton evangelist, was born in Wales at a time when the Celtic inhabitants of Britain had taken refuge there under pressure from Anglo-Saxon invaders. Many of these Britons then fled to...