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William Speirs Bruce nacque a Londra, più precisamente a Kensington Gardens Square. Il padre Samuel, un medico di successo, era di origini scozzesi mentre la madre era gallese; il nonno paterno era originario di Glasgow, mentre la nonna era delle isole Orcadi. Formazione
William Speirs Bruce FRSE (1 August 1867 – 28 October 1921) was a British naturalist, polar scientist and oceanographer who organised and led the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (SNAE, 1902–04) to the South Orkney Islands and the Weddell Sea. Among other achievements, the expedition established the first permanent weather station in ...
William Speirs Bruce. William originally studied medicine at Edinburgh University, but dropped out to join a whaling expedition to the Falkland Islands. He lectured in geography at Heriot-Watt College from 1899-1901, and then from 1917 until his death. He was an avid recorder of weather, local wildlife and geology on his various expeditions, to ...
William Speirs Bruce, explorer and geographer, was born on 1 August 1867 in London, the son of a doctor. His early education was conducted at home, but from the age of eleven he attended Norfolk County School at North Elmham. While at school he became interested in natural history and this was his main hobby.
27 ott 2009 · William Speirs Bruce (1867–1921) had two consuming passions throughout almost the whole of his life: Scottish nationalism and polar science. His early life in London and Edinburgh is seen as a prelude to polar oceanographic exploration, culminating in the success of the Scotia Antarctic expedition, 1902–04. His later life was frustrated by ...
William Speirs Bruce (1867 – 1921) Scottish naturalist, polar scientist and oceanographer who led the first and only Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Born in London in August 1867, the fourth child of Samuel Noble Bruce, a Scottish physician, and his Welsh wife Mary, William Speirs Bruce developed an early interest in the natural world ...
Bruce studied at Norfolk County School, before reading medicine at the University of Edinburgh, but gave up his studies in 1892, before he qualified as a doctor, in order to take part in a whaling expedition to the oceans surrounding the Falklands. Though he was, officially, ship's surgeon, he spent most of his time sealing and making 2-hourly ...
