Dictionary of Falklands Biography
including South Georgia

ornithologist, was born in Stanley on 16 February 1877, son of Frederick Edward COBB, colonial manager for the Falkland Islands Company and later its chairman, and Emily, née Blake.

He obtained a...

soldier and member of parliament, was born at Darwin on 4 September 1891, the son of George A Cobb (a brother of FE COBB) and his wife Julia who farmed Lively Island. He was educated at St Paul's...

FIC manager, was born at Banbury, Oxon on 16 April 1845, one of ten children of Edward Cobb , a banker, and Octavia Cobb, née Piper.

He attended University College School at Oxford. The earliest...

chairman FIC and racing driver, was born on 2 December 1899, the son of Rhodes Hawtyn Cobb of Esher, Surrey, a director of the Falkland Islands Company and chairman from 1922 to 1929. He was...

JP, schoolmaster, postmaster, registrar, collector of customs, and colonial treasurer was born in Edinburgh on 5 January 1853, the son of Alexander Collins. His mother was the daughter of John...

colonial secretary, was born in 1865 and educated at Edinburgh Academy, Stonyhurst College and the University of Paris. He lectured in languages and English literature at Paris and in 1900 joined...

Operation Condor was the hijacking of an airliner to Stanley by a group of Argentine nationalists on 28 September 1966. The origins of Operation Condor are linked to the Argentine political...

circumnavigator, was born on 27 October 1728 in the village of Marton-in-Cleveland, north Yorkshire, the son of James Cook (1694-1779), a day labourer, and his wife Grace, née Pace (1702-65). Cook...

German sect leader, was born in Strasbourg (in Alsace, then German) on 19 December 1913, the second son of Alfred Cordier, a shopkeeper, and Rosa, née Schuessler.

He was educated at a grammar...

author, naval architect and conservationist, came from an historic Manx family and was born in Rangoon on 11 February 1923, the son of Ewan Christian Brew Corlett.

He graduated in engineering...

government official, was born on 24 February 1843 at Longthorpe, Peterborough, son of Joshua and Alice Coulson. From the age of 14 years he had spent his life at sea. Although we do not know...

admiral, was born on 2 July 1862 at Hartforth in Yorkshire, the fourth son of Christopher Cradock and his wife Georgina, the daughter of Major Gordon Duff of the 92nd Highlanders.

He entered the...

colonial secretary, was born in India, the son of Major General John Craigie-Halkett of the Indian Army and Mrs Craigie-Halkett, née Maxwell. He entered the Royal Indian Engineering College in...

was born in Stanley on 28 December 1915, the son of Montague Cecil CRAIGIE-HALKETT and Ann née Robson. As registrar, Montague signed his own son’s birth certificate.

In 1930 Lionel Craigie-Halkett...

colonial secretary, was born on 28 December 1880 in Fiji, the son of Frederick CRAIGIE-HALKETT and Edith Amie Craigie-Halkett, née Parry. In 1897 he became acting private secretary to the governor...

was born at Gdoff {Gdov} Russia on 1 January 1912. Her grandfather had an estate at Gdoff and it was there that her Scottish born father, who had just qualified as a doctor, stayed for a six month...

teacher, was born in West Cork, Ireland, on 4 April 1922, the son of James Cronin and Margaret, née Buckley. He was educated at St Mary's Strawberry Hill teacher training college, London, and...

explorer, was born in Banbridge, Co Down, in September 1796. He was the fifth son of George Crozier, attorney-at-law, and Jane, née Graham. Crozier entered the navy in June 1810, joining the...

naturalist, was born in Prestonpans, East Lothian and educated at Edinburgh University (MD).

He was appointed physician and naturalist on a survey voyage of HMS Nassau (1866-1869) to southern South...

Anglican bishop, was born in Buenos Aires on 17 September 1919, son of Edward Stanley Cutts and his wife Gabrielle Landry. His parents were of British and Swiss origin and his father's family had...

FIC colonial manager, was born in Liverpool on 17 March 1799, the youngest son of John Pownall Dale, a doctor and his wife Sarah, née Briggs. Dale married Mary Astley on 21 September 1825 and they...

Camp manager and artist, was born in Liverpool in 1826, son of John Pownall DALE and his first wife Mary, née Astley. He was educated in England and Germany and accompanied his father and...

governor, was born in 1818, the eldest son of Colonel Joseph D'Arcy, Royal Artillery, and Lady Catherine West, daughter of Earl De La Warr. The name of Abbas Kooli was given to him because his...

scientist, was born in Shrewsbury on 9 February 1809, the son of Robert Darwin, a fashionable and prosperous doctor, and Susannah Darwin, née Wedgwood.

He was the grandson of Erasmus Darwin -...

German zoologist, writer and film director, who visited South Georgia in 1931 to collect biological samples for museums, was born in Berlin-Schöneberg in 1901, where his father Otto Dautert...