colonial secretary, was the son of William Pyne 'gentleman'. In 1858 a note on Colonial Office files states that Wm Pyne, 'near 21 years' of Upton Grove, Slough, Middlesex is to take his place as...

naturalist, was born at Dynevor Castle, Dyfed, Wales on 6 August 1904, the second son of Sir Reginald Rankin, second baronet and his wife, née the Hon Nest Rhys. He was educated at Eton and Christ...

sculptor and engraver, was born at Westminster, in London, on 8 October 1874, the son of Walter Ransom, a builder. He studied at the Lambeth School of Art and the Royal Academy School and lived and...

colonial secretary, wasborn on 22 July 1917 at Budleigh Salterton, Devon, the son of the Rev WH Raymer. He waseducated at Marlborough College and Jesus College, Cambridge, wherehe graduated with a...

forestry officer, was born on 10 July 1893 at Markinch in Fife, Scotland.

His father was a forester on the Balbirnie Estate, and Reid began work as an apprentice forester in September 1908. After...

governor and sculptor, was born in Phantassie, East Lothian, son of George Rennie, agriculturalist and nephew of John Rennie the well known engineer. He studied sculpture in Rome and on his return...

FIDS and policeman, was born in Stanley in 1929, the eldest child of a Falkland Island mother and an English father who had settled there after World War I.

In the mid l930s, his parents moved back...

politician, was born on 17 February 1929, the younger son of the third Viscount Ridley and Ursula, daughter of Sir Edwin Lutyens the architect. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College Oxford,...

Argentine gaucho and murderer, thought by some authorities to have been born in the Province of Entre Ríos, was an illiterate gaucho, a peón employed by Louis VERNET to work at his colony at Port...

spinner, was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire on 30 December 1891, the daughter of William and Jessie Holgate, of Yorkshire Dales farming stock. She was educated at a private school in Harrogate and...

ornithologist, polar pundit and unsung architect of the Antarctic Treaty, was born 23 October 1912 at Bishopgarth, Woking, Surrey, one of four children of a radiologist. He never married. At...

ships' captain, was born on 8 December 1885 in Liverpool, the son of Edward and Sarah Roberts, née Williams. The family, who all spoke Welsh as their first language, came from farming stock in...

director of public works, was born at Hampton in Middlesex on 27 January 1885 and spent his early teenage years working at Chatham dockyard, rising to become inspector of works there from...

dental surgeon, was born at Stanley on 10 May 1923, the eldest son of Captain David William ROBERTS and Annis Marjorie ROBERTS, née Holgate. He attended the Government school at Stanley until 1931...

was born in Stanley in 1900 the only child of a New Zealander James Robertson, who was employed as government stock inspector and Theresa Louisa Robertson, née Carey.

In 1909 the family moved to...

farmer, was born in Brightwater, New Zealand, the third of 11 children of James Robertson and Jane née Honeyman.

He worked for Nelson Bros Freezing Company in Blenheim prior to his departure for...

farm manager, was born at Stanley on 14 March 1931 the elder son of Charles ROBERTSON and Anne, née Chave. In 1934, his grandfather retired and his father took over as farm manager. At ten he...

surveyor and engineer was born in Southwark on 20 August, son of Macleod Robinson ('Gentleman') and his wife Anna Maria Sophia (presumably née Robinson). He worked with the Ordnance Survey in...

governor, was born on 14 January 1834, the fifth son of Admiral Hercules Robinson of Rosmead, Co Westmeath, by the only daughter and heir of Henry Widman Wood. After being educated at the Royal...

Argentine president, was born in Tucuman in 1843, the fourth son of Don José Segundo Roca and Agustina, née Paz. He entered the Colegio Nacional in Concepcion del Uruguay (which is in Argentina) in...

discoverer of South Georgia, was born in London, the son of a French father.

The sole authority for his discovery is a book by the Spanish historian Francisco Seixas y Lovera: Descripción...

Dutch Roman Catholic priest, was born on 22 November 1913 in Amsterdam. He was educated at the Mill Hill Fathers' colleges in Tilburg and Roosendaal in Holland and at Mill Hill in north London. He...

privateer and colonial governor, was born in Poole, Dorset in about 1679, the son and grandson of sea-captains of the same name. He first went to sea from Bristol in 1697. In 1705 he married Sarah,...

Dutch navigator, sailed from the Texel in August 1721 with three ships, Den Arend (The Eagle) Thienhoven [a placename] and De Africaansche Galey (The African Galley), to sail round the world. He...

Argentine dictator, was born in Buenos Aires on 30 March 1793, the eldest son of León Ortiz de Rosas and Augustina López de Osornio. From a wealthy landowning family, Rosas was noted in the young...