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Sir Clements Markham, of honourable memory, died in London, one hundred years ago on 29 January 2016. Not long before, towards the end of a very full life, he had been walking his godson, little Peter Scott, in the garden.
He travelled in Peru, the Arctic, India and Abyssinia/Ethiopia, publishing many translations from the Spanish for the Hakluyt Society. He was President and Honorary Secretary of the Hakluyt Society as well as of the Royal Geographical Society over much of his life. His books and writings are legion. He is perhaps best remembered as having launched Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton, on their polar careers during the National Antarctic Expedition in Discovery, 1901-1904. The first long-distance journeys into the interior of Antarctica were made on that expedition. At the furthest south of the...