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Priestley, Raymond Edward (1886 - 1974)

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Geologist and Antarctic explorer

Born: 20 July 1886 Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. Died: 24 June 1974 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

(Sir) Raymond Edward Priestley left an academic and administrative career at Cambridge University to accompany Shackleton and Scott on their Antarctic expeditions 1907-13. He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne until 1938 and then returned to the U.K.

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Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/scripts/fam-dynindex.php3?EID=P000725. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 2 August 2006

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