Hartley Travers Ferrar

Hartley Travers Ferrar (born January 28, 1879 in Dalkey near Dublin , † April 1932 ) was a geologist who participated in the Discovery Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott .

biography

Ferrar moved to Durban in South Africa with his parents at a young age . He was then sent back to England to the Oundle School to complete his education. He then moved to Sidney Sussex College , Cambridge , where he studied geology. When he left Cambridge he received an offer from Scott to take part as a geologist on his first Antarctic expedition. He certainly benefited from the fact that he was a well-trained athlete. Ferrar was the youngest member of the scientific crew on Scott's team.

He sailed on the RRS Discovery , where he also met his future wife Gladys Anderson when the ship was in New Zealand. Scott and his crew sailed south and anchored on McMurdo Sound in the Ross Sea. The ship stayed there for two years and froze. Ferrar started his geological work and, together with Ernest Shackleton and Dr. Wilson among others also sleigh trips and so came in 1903 on the longest trip to the western mountains of Victoria Land. The Ferrar Glacier was later named after him. After his return on the Discovery, he wrote his geological report on this voyage. He then took up a position in Egypt, where he stayed until the outbreak of the First World War. He sent his family to New Zealand, but stayed in North Africa himself and served in the 1st Canterbury Regiment.

After the war he worked for the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences . In addition to research work, he also completed his doctoral thesis. Ferrar died in 1932 as a result of an operation.

Individual evidence

↑ Ferrar, Hartley Travers . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume 2 : Chalmers – Fytche . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1944, pp. 485 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Ferrar, Hartley Travers
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	geologist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 28, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dalkey near Dublin
DATE OF DEATH	April 1932

[1] Ferrar, Hartley Travers . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume 2 : Chalmers – Fytche . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1944, pp. 485 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).