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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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,...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...