![]() The family lived at 35 Marlborough Road in Dublin and in 1884 they moved to Sydenham in South London where Henry practiced for 30 years.Īfter attending school at Dulwich College as a day boy Ernest, aged 16, joined the Merchant Navy. ![]() In 1880 when Ernest was six his father gave up farming and went to Trinity College Dublin, and qualified to be a doctor. Famous past pupils include Cardinal Paul Cullen, Edmund Burke, famous political writer and orator and James Napper Tandy, United Irishman. Sir Ernest Shackleton had been to the Antarctic twice before: once with Scotts first expedition (from which he was sent home with scurvy), and once on his own. Abraham Shackleton, was a Quaker from west Yorkshire who came to Ballitore in County Kildare and started a school in 1726. South tells an iconic tale the slow, cracking death of the Endurance, crushed in the ice of the Weddell Sea, months of survival for 28 men on an ice floe, then the voyage from Elephant Island to South Georgia in the 22’ ship’s boat, James. A Book at Bunktime for the May 2022 edition of Yachting Monthly. His mother Henrietta was descended from the Fitzmaurices, a family which had been in Kerry since the Norman times in the 13th century. Folio Society edition (3 volume set with maps), 195. ![]() The second in a family of ten, his father Henry farmed at Kilkea. ![]() Ernest Henry Shackleton was born on the 15th February in 1874 in Kilkea House, County Kildare in Ireland. ![]()
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