Ernest Shackleton: Ernest Shackleton. Self: South. The second in a family of ten, his father Henry farmed at Kilkea. His mother Henrietta was descended from the Fitzmaurices, a family which had been in Kerry since the Norman times in the 13th century. In 1880 when Ernest was six his father gave up farming and went to Trinity College Dublin, and qualified to be a doctor. The family lived at 35 Marlborough Road...
Known For: South (self, Leader of the Expedition(as Sir Ernest Shackleton)), Southward on the Quest (Self - Expedition Leader), The Bottom of the World (Self(as Sir Ernest Shackleton)), Mutual Weekly, No. 99 (Self)