Biographies

MOIR, JOHN INNES 1897-1936
Scotland

Principal Medical Officer Falkland Islands Government was born in Dundee on 28 August 1897. He was the eldest son of Alexander Moir (c.1870-1936) and Elizabeth Monro Guthrie. Alexander Moir, who...

MONETA, JOSÉ MANUEL 1900-1973
Argentina

Argentine meteorologist, writer and diplomat, was born in Buenos Aires on 9 July 1900. His father was Manuel Moneta and mother Ana Elena, neé Vivot. From 1912 he lived in Tierra del Fuego for a...

MONK, ADRIAN 1919 - 2004
England

master mariner, farmer and councillor, was born in Midsomer Norton, Somerset, on 13 May 1917, son of Lieutenant Commander William Archibald Monk RN and Phillis, née Bertrand, a daughter of William...

MONTAGU, ALGERNON SIDNEY 1802 - 1880
England

stipendiary magistrate, was christened in Wimbledon, Surrey on 25 August 1802 the son of a lawyer and legal reformer, Basil Montagu, and his second wife Laura, née Rush. His mother died when he was...

MONTEMAYOR, FULGENCIO D fl 1783
Spain

Spanish naval officer. Capitán de fragata Fulgencio Montemayor was sent to Puerto de la Soledad (Port Louis), probably in command of the snow San Sebastián, where he took over as comandante...

MOODY, JAMES LEITH 1816 - 1896
Barbados (also England)

colonial chaplain was born in 'Baladon BI' (not located, but probably Barbados) in 1816, a younger son of Col Thomas Moody RE and Martha Moody, née Clement. His Christian names reflect his father's...

MOODY, RICHARD CLEMENT 1813 - 1887
Barbados (also England)

governor, was born on 13 February 1813 at St Anne's Garrison in Barbados, the second son of Thomas Moody from Cumberland who had made his career in the Royal Engineers in the West Indies and his...

MOORE, DAVID MORESBY 1933 - 2013
England

botanist, was born in Barnard Castle, Co Durham on 26 July, 1933, eldest son of Moresby George Moore and his wife Elizabeth Moore, née Grange. On leaving Barnard Castle School he studied at...

MOORE, THOMAS EDWARD LAWS ?1820 - 1871
England

governor and explorer, was born in Brompton, Chatham, Kent, probably in 1820. He entered the Royal Navy as a volunteer of the first class on 19 October 1833 and as a career naval officer spent...

MOORE, WILLIAM HENRY ?1808 - after 1883
Ireland

stipendiary magistrate, was the second son of William John Moore, a Dublin attorney, and Charlotte Augusta, née Purdon. He was educated at Hazelwood, Warwickshire and was admitted as a student of...

MORENO, MANUEL 1782 - 1857
Argentina

Argentine diplomat, was born on 31 January 1782. Like his elder brother, Mariano, he was educated at the Real Colegio de San Carlos, and is said to have commanded a unit resisting the British...

MOYANO, CARLOS MARÍA 1854 - 1910
Argentina

Argentine seaman and governor, was born in Mendoza on 4 November1854 and entered the Argentine Navy in 1873. As a consequence, he made several voyages to Patagonia accompanying Luis PIEDRA BUENA....

MUNRO, HUGH 1873 -1938
New Zealand

New Zealand agriculturalist, was born on 12 December 1873. He began employment with the Department of Agriculture in New Zealand in April 1897 and worked in both the Wellington and Auckland areas,...

Murdoch, William Gordon Burn

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MURPHY, ROBERT CUSHMAN 1887 - 1973
United States

American ornithologist, was born in Brooklyn, New York on 29 April 1887 son of Thomas D Murphy, a secondary school official, and Augusta Cushman.

As a child on Long Island Murphy showed interest in...

NELSON JONES, ARTHUR GEORGE 1900-1994
Wales

clerk to the magistrate and acting magistrate at South Georgia 1925 to 1936, was the first man to be married at South Georgia on 12 March 1932 and therefore obtained South Georgia Marriage...

NERVILLE, MICHEL-FRANÇOIS fl 1764 - 1767
France

governor of the French colony on the Malouines (Falklands), was a first cousin of Louis-Antoine de BOUGAINVILLE the soldier and navigator, who was responsible for the establishment of the French...

NEWING, ALBERT 1891-1957
Falkland Islands

government postmaster and customs officer, accountant and consular agent, was born on 21 December 1891 at Stanley the ninth child of Police Constable Lawrence Newing (1850-1933) and Bessie Newing...

NEWMAN, FREDERICK 1853 - 1938
England

colonist and voyager, was born on 13 April 1853 in Bedhampton, Hampshire, the son of George and Eleanor (Ellen) Newman. There was already a connection with far-flung British colonies, as George...

NORDENSKJÖLD, NILS OTTO GUSTAF 1869 - 1928
Sweden

Swedish explorer and scientist, was born on 6 December 1869 on the estate Sjögle, Mariannelund, Småland, Sweden.

He had four sisters and his father, Gustaf Nordenskjöld, was an army captain. His...

O'BRIEN, EDWARD CONOR MARSHALL 1880 - 1952
Ireland

Irish patriot, yachtsman and writer was born in London on 3 November 1880, the son of Edward William O'Brien and an Englishwoman, Julia Mary, née Marshall.

He was a grandson of William Smith...

O'GRADY, Sir JAMES 1866 - 1934
England

governor, was born in Bristol of Irish parents on 6 May 1866. He was educated at St. Mary's Roman Catholic School which he left at an early age to work in a mineral factory, but at the age of 15 he...

OKOKKO c 1844 - c 1906
Tierra del Fuego

Yahgan Indian, was persuaded by GP DESPARD to come to Keppel Island when he was 15. He arrived with several others in January 1859. During a stay of 10 months, he learnt practical skills as well as...

OLSEN, NILS ERLING 1910 - 1975
Norway

Norwegian whaling manager, was born in Sandefjord, Norway on 3 December 1910, son of Nils Bertinius Olsen and Andrea Gulliksen, née Ellingsen.

His father died of TB before his son was born in 1910...

OMMANNEY, FRANCIS DOWNES (Dick) 1903 - 1980
England

writer and biologist, was born at Strawberry Hill, London, on 22 April 1903, one of the five children of Olive Caroline, née Owen, wife of Colonel Francis Frederick Ommanney. After Aldenham School,...