His first application was turned down but Scott was later persuaded to take him on by Dr Wilson, as an assistant Zoologist and, at 24, the youngest member of the expedition. In 1907 Cherry-Garrard’s father died, leaving his only son a considerable fortune and the wherewithal to apply to join Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s second expedition to the Antarctic in 1910. Whilst short-sightedness was a problem at school, at Oxford he excelled at rowing, winning the Grand Challenge Cup at the 1908 Henley regatta. Robert Falcon Scott’s last voyage.Īpsley was born in Bedford in 1886, the son of a distinguished soldier who reached the rank of Major General, he had five sisters. Whilst the author returned from the Antarctic in 1913, World War I intervened to delay the writing and publishing of his account of Capt. Our Book of the Month was published 100 years ago in December 1922. This Book of the Month blog was researched and written by Tony Rhodes, library volunteer at the Devon and Exeter Institution library.
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