lieutenant-governor, was born in 1843, the eldest of the five children (four sons, one daughter) of Sir Henry Barkly (1815-1898) and Elizabeth Helen Barkly, née Timins. Sir Henry was successively...

official and magistrate, was born in Matlock, Derbyshire, on 8 May 1888, the son of William Barlas, a Scots gardener and his wife Betsy. He was educated in Scotland at Pitlochry High School and...

businessman, baronet and MP, was born on 15 June 1898, elder son of Sir John Barlow (first baronet) and the Hon Anna Maria Denman. In 1928 he married the Hon Diana Helen Kemp and they had three...

American sealer, sailed from Sandy Hook, New Jersey, on 12 April 1812 in the 132 ton brig Nanina of New York on a sealing voyage to the Falkland Islands, anchoring off New Island on 7 September...

entrepreneur and politician, was born at San Carlos on 21 April 1896, one of eleven children of Arthur James Barnes, a shepherd and his wife Margaret, née Bonner.

As a young man Jack Barnes worked...

missionary, the son of William and Priscilla Bartlett, was born on 9 August 1824.

He married Emma (nee Jefferies) on 27 November 1855. Their children were Annie (born at sea in 1856, two days...

manager and councillor, was born in London on 8 May 1901, the third son of the Rev John Bernard Barton (1866-1941) and Susan Theresa Barton, née Thornton,(1895-1958) in a family of seven.

He was...

colonial engineer, was born in Southampton on 9 March 1878, the youngest child and second son of James and Catherine Baseley. His father had a tailoring business in the suburb of Eastleigh and...

ship's captain, was born in 1827, the son of Henry Beaglehole, mariner and Ann Beaglehole, née Tippett, of Dartmouth. He married Mary Ann Ford at St Petrox church, Dartmouth on 4 April 1849. He and...

colonial secretary, was born on 25 January 1888 at Stirling Castle, Scotland, the elder son of Major Alexander Beattie. He enlisted in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1906. After service...

farmer, was born on 22 May 1915 at Melmerby near Penrith, Cumberland, the ninth of ten children of tenant farmer James Beaty and his wife Eleanor, née Smith.

He won a scholarship to Penrith Grammar...

French sailor, was born in St Malo on 2 January 1652. He became an officer in the navy and served on expeditions to Greenland , Newfoundland , Africa and Brazil . In 1698 he was chosen by the...

master-mariner, whale factory ship manager, and whaling station manager for the whaling company Chr. Salvesen & Co of Leith, Scotland.

Sinclair Begg was born on 19 June1893 in the far north of...

naval officer, was born on 17 August 1897, son of Colonel FB Bell.

He was educated at Marfield Grange in Kent and then at the Royal Naval Colleges in Osborne and Dartmouth. He joined the Navy in...

Russian admiral and explorer. (His names have been variously rendered in German, Estonian and Russian; the second appears in his baptismal record.) He was born to a family of German Baltic...

German colonist, was born in Hamburg, Germany, the son of a family of lawyers.

He was to be apprenticed to the family firm, but being an outdoor type left home to seek his fortune, ending up in...

civil servant and naturalist, was born in Paddington, London on 26 January 1880, the son of Henry and Eliza Bennett (nee Axton).

His first job was in the Post Office of the House of Commons, and he...

registrar, was born on 30 October 1916 at Stanley, the third of four sons of Arthur George BENNETT and Ethel Eliza, née Axton. He was educated in Stanley at St Mary's Sisters' school and then at...

lay reader and carpenter, was born in Fulham, London on 14 December 1911, the second of five children of Arthur George BENNETT and his wife Ethel Eliza Bennett, née Axton.

His mother took him to...

Norwegian gunner and whaling manager, was born on the island Vestre Bolærne, on 7 October 1880, the son of Bernt SØRENSEN.

He started his career at sea early, first as able seaman apprentice with...

sea captain and farmer, was born in Buenos Aires on 20 February 1909, the son of James Godfrey Wickham Bertrand and Mfanwy Sian (Daisy) Bertrand, née Jones.

His father was farming in Argentina at...

farmer, was baptized in Dominica (British West Indies) on 21 December 1837, the sixth of seven children of Edmund Rufus Bertrand and Frances Elizabeth Bertrand, née Lee. His father was a planter...

colonial secretary, was born on 8 October 1870, son of Alexander Vans Best, a physician from Aberdeen, and his wife Louisa. He was educated at Cheltenham College (where he was head of school) and...

civil servant, was born in Stanley, Falkland Islands, on 4 September 1916, the eldest surviving son of the large family of Bernard Claud Biggs and Kathleen Mary Biggs.

In childhood he contracted...

mother and philatelist, was born on 29 August 1929 the middle child and only daughter of Theodore Conrad 'Con' Rowlands and Lucy, née Larsen.

As well as brothers John ROWLANDS (b 1928), and Harold...