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'The late Sir Ernest Shackleton and the Crew of the "Quest"' (including Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton)

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'The late Sir Ernest Shackleton and the Crew of the "Quest"' (including Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton)

by Unknown photographer
photogravure, 1921
11 3/8 in. x 9 in. (290 mm x 228 mm) image size
Purchased, 1986
Photographs Collection
NPG x27774

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Marie Stopes, campaigner for women's rights and pioneer of family planning, opens her first clinic in London, offering a free service to married women. While Stopes's forthright and open-minded attitudes have helped to change opinion about family planning and sex, her opinions on eugenics have been criticised and are now out-of-step with current thinking.

Art and science

British-born star of Hollywood Charlie Chaplin visits London where he is greeted by thousands. In 1921 Chaplain made his film, The Kid, which told the story of a tramp who finds an abandoned baby in an alley and decides to look after him. The portrayal of poverty in the film drew on Chaplain's own experiences of growing up in a working class family in London.

International

The Anglo-Irish Treaty partitions Ireland into the Irish Free State (later the Republic of Ireland) and Northern Ireland. The Irish Free State was granted independence, while six of the Northern counties of Ulster decided to remain part of Britain. The treaty came into effect in 1922.

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Sally Douglas

06 August 2021, 07:58

James William Slessor Marr – Oceanographer 1929-1930. He was also a Zoologist, Marine Biologist and an expert in Krill. Nickname was Babe or Scout. He was on an early Shackleton expedition. Mount Marr is a peak in Enderby Land named for Dr Marr for his participation in BANZARE. At the start of WW II Marr conducted hands-on research in the Antarctic into the feasibility of whale meat for human consumption. Moreover, in 1940 Marr was commissioned by the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve serving in Iceland, the Far East and South Africa. In 1943 he was a Lieutenant Commander. He led ‘Operation Tabarin’ in 1944-1946. It was a British Antarctic Expedition ‘secretly’ set up to establish permanently occupied bases in the Falkland Island Dependencies. Marr Point, Marr Bay (Bahia Marr), Marr Glacier and Marr Ice Piedmont are also named for Dr James Marr. Marr Ice Piedmont - covering half of Anvers Island, Palmer Archipelago, and extending from Cape Bayle in N to Arthur Harbour in S, was presumably sighted by GAE, 1873-74; roughly charted by FAE, 1903-05 and 1908-10; named after Dr James William Slesser Marr (1902-65), British marine biologist; member (as boy scout), Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition, 1921-22, and (as biologist) British expedition to Svalbard, 1925; member of DI scientific staff, 1927-49, and of National Institute of Oceanography, 1949-65; William Scoresby, 1928-29, and Discovery II, 1931-33 and 1935-37; biologist, BANZARE, 1929-31 (Sir Douglas Mawson), and whale factory ship Terje Viken, 1939-40; Commander (as Lieut. Cdr, RNVR), Operation "Tabarin", and Base Leader, "Port Lockroy"; surveyed in part by FIDS from "Arthur Harbour" in 1955 and photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57.
I have included the above in another list I have written on Polar Medal awards in 1934.
I can check out the abbreviations eg GAE stands for the German Antarctic Expedition, and DI for Discovery Investigations. Sally Douglas

Dawn

11 October 2018, 15:19

Norman Mooney left the ship at Madeira, so his inclusion means the photograph was taken before November 1921 (by which time the ship had reached Rio).