sapper and patriarch, was born in Portsea, Hants, the seventh of twelve children of Samuel Biggs and Jane, née Whitcomb, and baptised at St Mary's Church on 6 July 1806. Nothing is known of his...

librarian, teacher and shopkeeper, was born on 26 July 1902 at Marmont Row, Stanley, one of nine children of Vincent and Mary Biggs. Vincent was a shipwright with the Falkland Islands Company as...

civil servant, was born at Stanley on 8 October 1884, the eighth child of William Binnie, journeyman tailor and his wife Marion, née Pope, originally from Lanarkshire. The Binnie children were...

Antarctic circumnavigator, was born at Ponders End, Middlesex, the son of Thomas and Ann Biscoe, and baptised at Enfield Parish Church in late June 1794. He entered the Royal Navy as a volunteer in...

bishop, was born in Chittor, India in 1867, the son of Lt Gen William Blair, of Madras. After spending his university years at Cambridge, (where he obtained an MA and later an honorary doctorate in...

young writer, was born in England, the third child and second daughter of Robert BLAKE and Dorothea (DORA) BLAKE, née Herford.

Dora had taken her two older children to England in late 1885 in...

artist, mother, housewife was born in Manchester, where her father who had been a Unitarian minister was building up Ladybarn School. This was run along Froebelian lines and was for boys and girls....

legislative councillor, was born in Somerset on 29 July 1935, the son of Norman David Blake (youngest son of Robert BLAKE) and Alice Vicars Blake, née Boyle.

He was educated at Crewkerne School and...

colonist, was born in Taunton, Somerset in 1851, the fifth child of nine of William Blake and Fanny Follet Osler Blake, née Browne, a strong Unitarian family with a background in medicine, law and...

farm manager, was born at San Julian, Argentina, a family farm, on 2 June 1918, the son of Robert Blake and Edith Maclagen Blake, née Wedderburn. Educated at Eton and Cambridge University he put...

architect, was born at Fulham Palace, Middlesex, on 6 March 1829, fourth son of Charles Blomfield, Bishop of London and his wife, Dorothy, née Cox.

Following education at Rugby School and Trinity...

with Operation Tabarin*, was born in Stanley on 31 October 1923, son of Alexander Latto Blyth and Christine Agnes, née Morrison.

He spent most of his childhood in Stanley. In January 1944, as a...

Canadian author, was born in Fox Bay, West Falkland on 4 July, 1906. Her father, Percy Reginald Bolus MD, was Falkland Islands physician with the British Colonial Office, as well as magistrate,...

surveyor, mathematician and eccentric, was born of English parents in the Himalayan foothills at Dehra Dun, India, on 17 January 1927.

His father was geodesist Guy Bomford, an officer in the Royal...

Spanish army and naval officer, was born at Plasencia, Extremadura, Spain. He began his military career on 28 April 1768 by joining the army as an alférez in his native Plasencia. Bonavía...

Spanish sailor. Bondas, a primer piloto particular in the merchant marine, was a surprise choice in April 1808, when he was sent to Puerto de la Soledad (Port Louis) in command of the brig Nuestra...

landowner, was born at Port Sussex on 23 October 1873, the second son of John BONNER and Susan Bonner, née Reddy.

He was educated privately at Southport where his parents had retired and enrolled...

landowner, was born at San Carlos on 11 March 1929 to John Francis (Jack) BONNER and Vickey Bonner, daughter of RB BASELEY.

His early years were spent at San Carlos and his primary education was...

colonist, was born in Liverpool in 1825.

He became a tanner by trade and was engaged by Samuel LAFONE to go to the Falklands to supervise and hopefully improve the curing of cattle hides for...

landowner, was born at San Carlos on 27 May 1905, the youngest child and only son of George BONNER and Frances, née Rigg.

He grew up at San Carlos and received his early education from his mother...

zoologist, was born in Holloway, London on 15 February 1928, the second son of Frederick Bonner and Constance, née Hatch.

He was educated at the Stationers' Company's School and University College,...

electrical, radio and pioneer television engineer, was born on 26 September 1916 in Puerto Bories, near Puerto Natales, Magallanes, Chile, to British parents – John Sutcliffe Booth (1883- 1954) and...

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) administrator in Stanley, and radio broadcaster, was born in Punta Arenas, Chile on 13 December 1943 to Joseph (Joe) BOOTH (1916-2003) and Maruja Booth née Bonacich...

headmaster, was born on 12 August 1920 in Widnes, Lancs, the sole child of Alfred Booth, a cooperative grocery manager, and Alice May Booth, née Parker, a milliner.

Educated locally in elementary...

meteorologist, was born in Govan, Glasgow on 9 May 1921, the son of Daniel Borland and Mary, née Black. Dannie (junior) was one of four siblings, sisters Agnes and Cathie and brother Malcolm. He...