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Robert Falcon Scott: a Tasmanian connection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2011

Patrick G. Quilty  and
Gillian Winter
Patrick G. Quilty
Affiliation:
School of Earth Sciences, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 79, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia (P.Quilty@utas.edu.au)
Gillian Winter
Affiliation:
Pear Tree Press, 150 Goulburn St, West Hobart, Tasmania, 7000, Australia
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Abstract

The Edge Anglican church (originally St Alban's) in the northern Hobart suburb of Claremont has above its main altar a triptych stained glass window, a memorial to Robert Falcon Scott R.N. New information suggests that the designer/manufacturer was Auguste Fischer of Melbourne, a close associate of the church's architect, Alan Cameron Walker of Hobart. The window was promised by Mrs Edith Knight at the laying of the foundation stone of the church in July 1913, five months after Scott's death became known to the world. Lady Ellison-Macartney attended the ceremony. She was Scott's sister and wife of the recently appointed governor of Tasmania, Sir William Ellison-Macartney. Other members of Scott's family were also living in Hobart at the time. The Ellison-Macartneys and their daughter Esther attended the dedication of the window on 17 October 1915. Admiral E.R.G.R. Evans, second in command of Scott's expedition, spoke to The Royal Society of Tasmania on 29 March 1930, on the topic of Scott's last Antarctic venture.

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Polar Record , Volume 48 , Issue 2 , April 2012 , pp. 192 - 194
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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