Adams, Jameson
Boyd - second in command and meteorologist Armitage, Bertram Brocklehurst, Sir Philip Lee - assistant geologist Cheetham, Alfred - Third officer and boatswain David, Edgeworth - Director of scientific staff, geologist Davis, John K. - first officer Day, Bernard - electrician / motor mechanic Dunlop, Henry J. L. - chief engineer England, Lieutenant Rupert - R.H.R., ships Master Joyce, Ernest - general storeman, dogs, sledges, zoological collections
Mackay, Dr.
Alistair Forbes - assistant surgeon Mackintosh, Aeneas Lionel Acton - second officer Marshall, Dr. Eric Stewart - surgeon, cartographer Marston, George Edward - artist Mawson, Douglas - physicist Michell, Dr. William Arthur Rupert - surgeon Murray, James - biologist Priestley, Raymond E. - geologist Roberts, William C. - cook Shackleton, Ernest - Expedition leader Wild, Frank - in charge of provisions
In more detail
other Arctic or Antarctic expeditionary
experience, prior to, or following this expedition number in brackets is age at
the start of this expedition - not always completely accurate.
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
Jameson
Boyd Adams (27) - second in command and
meteorologist
Born in 1880 at Rippinggale Lincolnshire. First
went to sea in the merchant service in 1893 serving three years
as a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve, before joining the expedition
in 1907. Appointed second in command in February 1908, unmarried
at the time of the expedition.
Bertram Armitage
(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.
Sir
Philip Lee Brocklehurst (20) - assistant
geologist
Born in 1887 at Swythamley park,
Staffordshire, educated at Eton and Trinity Hall Cambridge. Held
a commision 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.
Edgeworth
David (50) - Director of scientific staff,
geologist
Born in Wales, 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 in 1884 in Wymondham, Leicestershire
and 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.
Henry J. L. Dunlop
(31)
- chief engineer
Information courtesy of Jayne Cant - Henry
Dunlop's granddaughter.
Born on 15th October 1876 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The
third child of eight. His Father was Chief Cashier of Harland &
Wolff, shipbuilders of Belfast.
Appointed Chief Engineer of the Nimrod in 1907 aged thirty
one. I gathered from my Mother that Shackleton was a friend and
Henry lent him a sum of money which was never repaid. I have a
copy of a letter to Henry on this matter. On arrival at Cape
Royds, Henry supervised the laying of the hut's foundations and
also helped to build it.
Henry sailed back to New Zealand on board Nimrod then a year
later returned to Antarctica to collect the shore party.
Three years after he returned from the Expedition he was made
General Manager of the African Oil & Cake Mills Company in
Liverpool. In 1914 he married Ethel Jane Ward (maybe we're
related?) and in 1918 my Mother Patricia was born. Henry died
aged fifty four on 5th March 1931 when my Mother was only
thirteen. Sadly I never knew him.
I am hoping to go to see the places he visited in Antarctica
but it is a costly trip. Shackleton paid him the compliment of
naming an island in McMurdo Sound after him. It is a mile long
and situated just off the Wilson Piedmont Glacier. Cape Dunlop
takes its name from Dunlop Island.
Lieutenant Rupert England
- R.H.R., ships Master
Ernest Joyce
(32) - general storeman, dogs, sledges, zoological collections
Born in 1875, 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.
Dr. Alistair Forbes Mackay
(29) - assistant surgeon
Born in 1878, 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.
Aeneas Lionel Acton Mackintosh
(26) - second officer
Born in Tirhoot, Bengal, India in
1881 and educated at the Bedford Modern School in England. He went
to sea in 1894 in the merchant navy joining the Peninsula and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company in 1899. He was lent from this company
to the Nimrod expedition in 1907 and received a commission in the
Royal Naval Reserve in July 1908. Unmarried at the time of the expedition.
Dr.
Eric Stewart Marshall (28) - surgeon, cartographer
Born in 1879 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 in 1882 in Portsmouth. Educated
as an artist mainly at the Regent Street Polytechnic, a qualified
art teacher. Unmarried at the time of the expedition.
Born in Australia
in 1880, both parents originally from the Isle of Man. 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 Nimrod in
Australia. Unmarried at the time of the expedition.
Dr. William Arthur Rupert Michell
- surgeon
James
Murray (42) - biologist
Born in Glasgow in 1865. 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 in 1886 and 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.
William C. Roberts
(35) - cook
Born in 1872 in London. Married at
the time of the expedition.
Born in Yorkshire in 1873, 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.
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other Arctic or Antarctic expeditionary experience, prior to, or following this expedition
Jameson
Boyd Adams (27) - second in command and
meteorologist
Sir
Philip Lee Brocklehurst (20) - assistant
geologist
Edgeworth
David (50) - Director of scientific staff,
geologist
John
K. Davis - first officer
Bernard
Day (23) - electrician / motor mechanic
Dr.
Eric Stewart Marshall (28) - surgeon, cartographer
Douglas
Mawson (27) - physicist
James
Murray (42) - biologist
Raymond
E. Priestley (21) - geologist
Frank
Wild ( 34) - in charge of provisions
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