Ernest Shackleton - Nimrod
British Antarctic Expedition 1907- 1909

Ernest Shackleton (33) - expedition leader

Third lieutenant in charge of holds, stores, provisions and deep sea water analysis
Discovery expedition 1901-04
expedition leader Endurance 1914-17
expedition leader Quest 1920-21

Born 15th Feb 1874, Kilkea, Ireland - died 5th Jan 1922, South Georgia

Bertram Armytage (38)

Born in 1869 in Australia, educated at Melbourne Grammar School and Jesus College Cambridge. After a military career which involved several years in the Victorian Militia, Carabiniers, 6th Division Guards and active service in South Africa, he joined the expedition in Australia.
Married at the time of the expedition.

Born 1869, Lara, Australia - died 12th March 1910

Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst (20) - assistant geologist

Educated at Eton and Trinity Hall Cambridge. Held a commission at the time of the expedition in the Derbyshire Yeomanry, represented Cambridge University in light weight boxing competitions in 1905 and 1906.
Unmarried at the time of the expedition.

Born 7th March 1887 at Swythamley park, Staffordshire - died 28th Jan 1975

Tannat William Edgeworth David (50) - Director of scientific staff, geologist

David was Professor of Geology at Sydney University. He was educated at New College Oxford, afterwards studying geology at the Royal College of Science. He went to Australia to take up a post as Geological Surveyor to the government of New South Wales, a position he had held for eighteen years before joining the expedition.
Married at the time of the expedition.

Born 28th March 1858, St. Fagans Wales - died 28th Aug 1934

Bernard Day (23) - electrician / motor mechanic

motor engineer Terra Nova 1910 - 13

Educated at Wellingborough Grammar School. Day was involved in engineering from 1903, he left the employ of the New Arrol Johnston Motor-Car Company to join the expedition. The Nimrod expedition was the first to ever take a motor car to Antarctica, a 4 cylinder, 15 horsepower air cooled car came from the Arrol-Johnston company after the intervention of William Beardmore a major sponsor of the expedition (and Shackleton's employer before it started) he had recently taken over to save them from bankruptcy.

Born 18th Aug 1884, Oakham - died 1934

Ernest Joyce (32) - general storeman, dogs, sledges, zoological collections

Discovery expedition 1901-04

Educated at the Greenwich Royal Hospital School from where he entered the Navy in 1891 and rose to the position of Petty Officer 1st class. He had served in South Africa with the Naval Brigade from where he joined Scott's Discovery expedition in 1901 from Cape Town. He left the Navy in December 1905 to rejoin again in August 1906 before leaving again by purchase order to join the Nimrod expedition in May 1907.
Unmarried at the time of the expedition.

Born 1875, Bognor, Sussex - died 2nd May 1940

Dr. Alistair Forbes Mackay (29) - assistant surgeon

Son of Colonel A. Forbes Mackay of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders.  Educated in Edinburgh and then proceeded to Dundee for zoological work under Professors Geddes and D'Arcy Thompson. Served as a trooper in South Africa, then with Baden Powell's police before returning to pass final examinations in medicine to return to the front again as a civil surgeon. He entered the Royal Navy as a surgeon, retiring four years later and then joined the expedition.
Unmarried at the time of the expedition.

Born 22nd Feb 1878, Carskey, Argyllshire - died Feb 1914

Dr. Eric Stewart Marshall (28) - surgeon, cartographer

Educated at Monckton Combe School and Emmanuel College Cambridge. Represented his college in rowing and football. Originally studied for the church, but subsequently entered St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 1899 qualifying as a surgeon in 1906.
Unmarried at the time of the expedition.

Born 29th May 1879, Hampstead - died 26th Feb 1963

George Edward Marston (25) - artist

artist Endurance 1914-17

"Putty" Marston. Educated as an artist mainly at the Regent Street Polytechnic, a qualified art teacher.
Unmarried at the time of the expedition.

Born 19th March 1882, Southsea - died 22nd Nov 1940

Douglas Mawson (27) - physicist

expedition leader Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-13

Educated in Australia and working as a lecturer in mineralogy and petrology at Adelaide University and honorary curator of the South Australian Museum at the time of the expedition. Joined the Nimrodin Australia.
Unmarried at the time of the expedition.

Born 5th May 1882 on a farm at Shipley, Yorkshire, England in 1882, his mother was originally from the Isle of Man - died 14th Oct 1958

James Murray (42) - biologist

Spent his early working years in various branches of art, interested in natural history, especially botany. In 1901 he turned his interest to microscopic zoology and was appointed in 1902 by Sir John Murray to work on Scottish lake Survey a job he was still engaged in at the point of joining the expedition as a biologist.
Married in 1892.

Born 21st July 1865, Glasgow - died Feb 1914

Raymond E. Priestley (21) - geologist

geologist Terra Nova 1910-13

Educated at Tewkesbury School and then Bristol University College, he passed the intermediate exam in science in 1906 and was taking the advanced level when appointed geologist to the expedition in 1907.

Born 20th July 1886, Tewkesbury - died 24th June 1974

William C. Roberts (35) - cook

Married at the time of the expedition.

Born 1872 in London.

Frank Wild ( 34) - in charge of provisions

Seaman Discovery 1901-04
Sledge-master Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-13
Second in command Endurance 1914-17
Second in command Quest- Ernest Shackleton 1921 - 1922

Wild was a direct descendent of Captain Cook through his mother, one uncle had been three times on expeditions to the Arctic. He entered the merchant navy in 1889 and joined the Royal Navy in 1900. He had received a polar medal and clasp for his work on the Discovery expedition to Antarctica under Scott and the Royal Geographical Society's silver medal. At Sheerness Gunnery School when the Admiralty consented to his appointment to the Nimrod expedition.

Born 10th April 1873, Skelton, Yorkshire - died 20th Aug 1939