colonial secretary, was born in India, the son of Major General John Craigie-Halkett of the Indian Army and Mrs Craigie-Halkett, née Maxwell. He entered the Royal Indian Engineering College in...

was born in Stanley on 28 December 1915, the son of Montague Cecil CRAIGIE-HALKETT and Ann née Robson. As registrar, Montague signed his own son’s birth certificate.

In 1930 Lionel Craigie-Halkett...

colonial secretary, was born on 28 December 1880 in Fiji, the son of Frederick CRAIGIE-HALKETT and Edith Amie Craigie-Halkett, née Parry. In 1897 he became acting private secretary to the governor...

was born at Gdoff {Gdov} Russia on 1 January 1912. Her grandfather had an estate at Gdoff and it was there that her Scottish born father, who had just qualified as a doctor, stayed for a six month...

teacher, was born in West Cork, Ireland, on 4 April 1922, the son of James Cronin and Margaret, née Buckley. He was educated at St Mary's Strawberry Hill teacher training college, London, and...

explorer, was born in Banbridge, Co Down, in September 1796. He was the fifth son of George Crozier, attorney-at-law, and Jane, née Graham. Crozier entered the navy in June 1810, joining the...

naturalist, was born in Prestonpans, East Lothian and educated at Edinburgh University (MD).

He was appointed physician and naturalist on a survey voyage of HMS Nassau (1866-1869) to southern South...

Anglican bishop, was born in Buenos Aires on 17 September 1919, son of Edward Stanley Cutts and his wife Gabrielle Landry. His parents were of British and Swiss origin and his father's family had...

FIC colonial manager, was born in Liverpool on 17 March 1799, the youngest son of John Pownall Dale, a doctor and his wife Sarah, née Briggs. Dale married Mary Astley on 21 September 1825 and they...

Camp manager and artist, was born in Liverpool in 1826, son of John Pownall DALE and his first wife Mary, née Astley.

He was educated in England and Germany and accompanied his father and...

governor, was born in 1818, the eldest son of Colonel Joseph D'Arcy, Royal Artillery, and Lady Catherine West, daughter of Earl De La Warr. The name of Abbas Kooli was given to him because his...

scientist, was born in Shrewsbury on 9 February 1809, the son of Robert Darwin, a fashionable and prosperous doctor, and Susannah Darwin, née Wedgwood.

He was the grandson of Erasmus Darwin -...

German zoologist, writer and film director, who visited South Georgia in 1931 to collect biological samples for museums, was born in Berlin-Schöneberg in 1901, where his father Otto Dautert...

visiting grassland expert, was born in London on 20 March 1899 the son of William and Margaret Davies.

He was educated at the Sloane School London, and at the University College of Aberystwyth and...

English mariner and writer on navigation, was born and bred in Devon at Sandridge in the parish of Stoke Gabriel, near Dartmouth, where, as a child, his neighbours were the three Gilbert brothers...

mariner and farmer, was born in Stanley on 30 January 1893, son of John Davis, shepherd and sailmaker, and Elizabeth Ann, née Brown.

Elizabeth Ann was the widow of Robert Hutchinson and already the...

see DEAN, Orissa

landowner, was born in 1888 in the Falkland Islands, the eldest son of John Hall DEAN and Eliza, née Thomas. He went to school in England followed by agricultural college in Cumberland before...

landowner, was born in the Falkland Islands, the youngest son of John Markham DEAN and his wife Charlotte Dean, née Millyard.

In 1886 he married Eliza Thomas who bore him seven children - Millyard...

merchant and colonist, was born at High Wycombe, Bucks, on 4 September 1815, the eldest son of John Dean and his wife Frances, née Markham.

He was orphaned at the age of nine and brought up by his...

landowner, was born in the Falkland Islands in 1893, the second son of John Hall DEAN and Eliza, née Thomas.

In August 1915 he left the Islands with his elder brother George Thomas DEAN to join the...

benefactor, is thought to have been born in Orissa, India, the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Wotton, later of Newington. In 1862 she married George Markham Dean, born in 1837, the eldest son of...

Italian naval officer and painter, was born at Sete near Sorrento in the kingdom of Naples on 29 March 1838.

He studied at the Naval Academy in Naples and joined the navy of the newly established...

missionary, was born on 6 December 1813 in Lisbon, the son of Colonel William Despard and his wife Elizabeth, née de Blois. He was ordained in the Church of England in July 1837 and was honorary...

Roman Catholic priest, was born in Kilrea, Co Londonderry, on 1 May 1863 (or possibly 2 April 1863), the son of Manus Diamond and Isabel, née O'Fee. He went to the local elementary school, then...