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Monuments to Edward Wilson in Cheltenham

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Carolyn King*
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11 Oakfield Street, Tivoli, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL50 2UJ (carolynjk@hotmail.com)

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Edward Adrian Wilson was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England on 23 July 1872. He attended Cheltenham College and then proceeded to Cambridge where he read natural sciences and to St George's Hospital, London where he trained in medicine. His name is best known because of his participation in Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic expeditions of. 1901–1904 and 1910–1913. He reached the South Pole with Scott on 17 January 1912 and died with him on the return journey on or after 29 March 1912.

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