Anglo-Irish explorer, was born on 15 February 1874 at Kilkea in Co Kildare, Ireland, the second in a family of two sons and eight daughters born to Henry Shackleton and Henrietta, née Gavan. The...

master mariner, born in St John’s Newfoundland on 31 January 1897 to Anna Laura Sheppard (née Davis) of Harbour Grace and Robert Sheppard of St John’s, also a master mariner.

After schooling at...

American artist, was born on 2 August 1947 in Lakeport, California, the son of Sara and John Sheridan.

His father, a construction superintendent, was also an extraordinary painter and draftsman who...

naval commander, surveyor general, clerk of the courts and acting colonial secretary, was born In Melrose, Scotland c.1809. During his service in the Falklands, he was styled as ‘Captain John...

French gaucho and foreman, first appears in the VERNET financial accounts as a gaucho paid for guarding Vernet's horses near Río Negro in November 1825. Simon is first mentioned actually in the...

Swedish botanist, was born on 1 December 1880 in Karlshamn, Sweden and had his early schooling there.

His father was a schoolmaster but died when Skottsberg was 6 years old, and a few years later,...

US consul, was born in 1793 or 1794, most likely in Alexandria, Virginia, the eldest son of a prominent Virginia family headed by Captain George and Mrs Jane H Slacum. While little is known about...

clerk, was born in Walmer, Kent in 1818, the son of Captain William Slaughter, CB, KCH. He sought a post in the colonial service and was appointed clerk to Governor MOODY at Port Louis, arriving in...

manager, was born near Bolsover, Derbyshire on 23 June 1880, the third of the eight children of Dr John Slaughter and Edith Slaughter, née Jarvis. The early death of his father meant that money was...

medical officer, was born in Fraserburgh, Scotland, on 2 November 1912.

His father, Dr Robert Slessor, was a local physician, and he had one brother and two sisters. He was educated at Fraserburgh...

FIC colonial manager, was born in East Wemyss, Fife, Scotland on 28 October 1928, the only child of James Sloggie and Agnes Sloggie, née Smith.

He was educated at Dumfries Academy, gaining his...

naval officer in charge, was baptised in Montreal, Canada on 4 July 1797, son of Henry and Mary Smith. His first ship was the Courageux, which he joined in May 1810.

In 1832 Smith was first officer...

carpenter and agitator, was probably born in Scotland. Certainly he married his wife Elizabeth there on 1 July 1867 and they arrived, with passages paid by the FIC and the Land and Emigration...

sealer and writer, appears to have been born in Lewisham, near London, about 1801. The early death of his father and problems with his widowed mother's family resulted in his running away and...

American sea captain and consul, was born in Providence, Rhode Island. James W Smyley, a ship's master who visited the Falklands in the 1840s may have been a brother. WH Smyley's letters, with...

mariner, explorer and writer, was born at Poole, Dorset on 27 November 1817. His father, a naval officer who had served at Trafalgar died in 1826 and his mother, née Barker, took the family abroad,...

mariner, was born at Darwin on 19 November 1915, the third child of Frank Pinkney Sollis, mason, and his wife Catherine Mary Sollis, née Axon.

Jack's childhood was spent in camp at Goose Green and...

Norwegian gunner and whaling manager, was born on the island of Vestre Bolærne in the Oslofjord. He started his whaling career at Finmarkskysten in the northern part of Norway. Then he worked as a...

Norwegian gunner and whaling manager, was born in Tjølling, now part of Larvik, in Norway on 17 February 1875.

Like many young boys at the time he went to sea at only 15 years of age - first on...

Royal Marine, yachtsman and author was born at Hawick, in the Scottish Borders, on 18 January 1942, the son of Norman Hastings Tailyour (later General Sir Norman) and his wife, Priscilla June (née...

German admiral, was born in Copenhagen on 22 June 1861.

He was the youngest of five sons of Reichsgraf Rudolf von Spee from a Catholic Prussian family and his mother Fernande Tutein was Danish. He...

airline pilot, was born in Liverpool on 7 February 1925, the son of William Henry Spencer, a motor racing engineer, and his wife Agnes, née Wilkinson. He was educated at Liverpool Collegiate. He...

paratrooper, quartermaster for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), magistrate on South Georgia, and colonial administrator, was born in Chelsea on 25 March 1921 to Edward Walter Spivey...

US admiral, was born at Fort Johnson, Wilmington Harbour, North Carolina, on 11 March 1822, the son of Samuel Spotts, a major in the US Army who had gained fame in command of the artillery under...

RC monsignor, was born on 13 January 1912 in Newcastle upon Tyne, one of four children of Alfred Spraggon and Sarah Spraggon, née Martin. At the age of 22 he joined the Mill Hill Missionaries...