Joseph Foster Stackhouse
British traveller and would-be explorer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joseph Foster Stackhouse (10 August 1873 – 7 May 1915) was a British traveller and would-be explorer who, in 1911, led an expedition to the Arctic island of Jan Mayen. In 1914 he attempted to organise a British expedition to the Antarctic, but this was prevented by the outbreak of the First World War. He died in the sinking of the Lusitania.
Joseph Foster Stackhouse | |
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Born | (1873-08-10)10 August 1873 Kendal, United Kingdom |
Died | 7 May 1915(1915-05-07) (aged 41) |
Occupation | Explorer |
Born to an English Quaker family in the north of England, Stackhouse worked as an official with a railway company, while indulging in a passion for foreign travel. A member of the Royal Geographical Society, he was a friend and associate of Robert Falcon Scott, and assisted in the preparation of Scott's Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13. Stackhouse's aborted plan for an Antarctic expedition was originally conceived as a continuation of Scott's work. After its abandonment, he revised and extended his scheme into a broad oceanographic survey, and went to America to gather support and funding for this purpose. He was lost in the Lusitania while returning to England.