King’s Scout, biologist and polar explorer and first leader of WWII Antarctic expedition ‘Operation Tabarin’, was born at Cushnie, near Turriff, Aberdeenshire, on 9 December 1902, the second son of...

colonial secretary, was probably born in Scotland in 1875, the son of Alexander Martin. He was educated at Irvine Academy and George Watson's College Edinburgh, going on to Edinburgh University....

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magistrate South Georgia, was born in Aylsham, Norfolk on 6 June 1923, the son of AC Matthew and HV Matthew, née Hunt. Educated at Winchester College and Christ Church Oxford, he served in the...

biologist South Georgia, was born on 12 June 1901 in Clifton, Bristol the eldest child of Harold Matthews, and Sarah (Ruby), née Harrison, both of whom were pharmacists.

He was educated at Bristol...

naval officer, joined the Royal Navy in 1847.

He was promoted lieutenant in 1856 and two years later joined the Plumper, Captain GH Richards, employed on the survey of Vancouver Island and British...

agronomist, agricultural and environmental scientist, was born inDonaghadee, County Down on 15 January 1952, the only son of Fred and May McAdam. He attendedBallywalterPrimary School and Coleraine...

character, was born at Leicester Creek on West Falkland on 1 December 1889, the eldest girl and sixth of twelve children born to George McKay and Barbara Gidina, née Rutherford.

Her parents came to...

naval officer, was the son of Robert McBride, a Presbyterian minister, and raised in Ballymoney, Co Antrim. He may have been born in Scotland prior to his father's settlement in Ireland, but...

naval surgeon, was born in Runham, near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, the son of Surgeon Robert McCormick, RN, from Co Tyrone. It was during his boyhood wanderings that he became interested in natural...

shepherd, farm manager and farm owner, was born on 13 September 1921 at Danson Harbour, to Kenneth John McPhee Snr (b. 4 May1892 d.31 July 1951) and Ellen McCarthy (b.1900 d.13 September 1921)....

teacher, public servant, was born on 12 March 1919, the eldest child of Alexander McPhee and his wife Letitia, née Carey.

His mother died when he was six and he lived for a time on Saunders Island...

Tabernacle minister, was born on 29 July 1913 in Glasgow, the son of Andrew Alexander McWhan and Mary, née Forrest. He came to the Falkland Islands in September 1934 as an 'independent missionary'...

Spanish naval officer, entered the Spanish navy as a guardiamarina on 21 December 1767. After successive promotions he was promoted teniente de nav ío on 23 May 1778 and ordered to proceed to...

Spanish naval officer, was born in Seville around 1754. After initial training at the Cádiz Naval Academy, Medina was confirmed in the rank of guardiamarina on 21 October 1773 and promoted to ...

coxswain and sealer, landed on the Falkland islands on 1832 as coxswain for the boat of Lt SMITH, the naval officer administering the government. He seems to have been thoroughly competent: Lt ...

colonial secretary, was born on 1 July 1842 at Aberdeen, the son of G Melville of Culdrose, Fife. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and by private tutors and entered the imperial civil service...

Spanish naval officer. Teniente de navío Pedro de Mesa y Castro served two terms as comandante gobernador of the Spanish settlement at Puerto de la Soledad (Port Louis) in command of the corvette ...

Argentine commandant, was French, but little is known about him. His date of birth is not on record, and his Christian names are also in doubt. The historian Paul GROUSSAC, also of French origin,...

governor, was born on 12 July 1870, the son of Dr James Middleton of Stow, Midlothian. He was educated at Sedbergh and Edinburgh University. In 1901 Middleton entered the Colonial Service as an...

Roman Catholic priest, was born of pious Italian parents in Montevideo on 13 December 1863. His early education was at the Salesian College there. As a young man, he travelled to Europe with his...

senior chaplain, was born in Portsmouth on 11 March 1936, the son of a Falkland Islands mother, Beatrice Orissa Bender and of William Robert Millam who had served with the Royal Navy in the Islands...

manager, councillor and writer, was born at Hill Cove, West Falkland, on March 1905.

His father, also named Sydney, had emigrated to the Islands from Sussex in 1886 at the age of 19 and his mother...

FIC manager, was born in Manchester, the son of William Milne and his wife Carrie, née Millar. Harry as he liked to be known was educated at Hulme Grammar School in Manchester and later started...

businessman, was born in Barking, Essex on 5 April 1923, the only son of Francis and Lena Sophia, née Edwards. Educated in Essex, the outbreak of war in 1939 disrupted his further education and...