Antarctic explorer.- Evans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell, first Baron Mountevans, naval officer and antarctic explorer, 1880-1957) c. 190 signed cheques drawn on the Westminster Bank Limited, 85 x 208mm. & smaller, 1941-42.
⁂ In 1902 Evans was selected to be second officer of the Morning, the relief ship sent out by the Royal Geographical Society to the first Antarctic expedition of Scott. "In 1909 he was selected by Scott himself as second in command of his second expedition and captain of the Terra Nova, which left England in June 1910. He accompanied Scott in January 1912 to within 150 miles of the pole, where he turned back. Struck down by scurvy he was saved only by the devotion of his two companions, Chief Stoker Lashly and Petty Officer Crean. After a brief period of convalescence in England, which he devoted to raising money for the expedition, he returned to take command of the Terra Nova in New Zealand and sailed south, only to find on arrival at Cape Evans in January 1913 that Scott had died in an unparalleled period of bad weather when returning from the pole in March of the previous year." - Oxford DNB.
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