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Dr W. H. B. Webster, 1793–1875: Antarctic Scientist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

A. G. E. Jones
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In October 1834, The Suffolk Chronicle announced that “Mr. Webster of the Chanticleer is now practising surgery in this town” Earlier that year, he had achieved a little fame by publishing Narrative of a voyage to the Southern Atlantic Ocean in the years 1828, 29, 30, performed in H.M. Sloop Chanticleer, . . . from the private journal of W. H. B. Webster, surgeon of the sloop (London, Richard Bentley, 1834). This two-volume work sold fairly widely, and the Ipswich Public Library bought a copy at the time.

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Polar Record , Volume 17 , Issue 107 , May 1974 , pp. 143 - 145
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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1. London and Provincial Medical Directory, 1859 and 1864. Information from the Society of Apothecaries, Water Lane, Blackfriars, LondonGoogle Scholar.

2. Hedgpeth, Joel W. in his article “James Eights of the Antarctic (1798–1882)” in Quam, L. O.ed. Research in the Antarctic, Washington DC, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1971, p 3–4Google Scholar, states that Eights was “the first qualified naturalist to set foot on land south of the Antarctic Convergence”, but he has since agreed that Webster made his observations one season earlier.

3. London Medical Directory, 1845Google Scholar. London and Provincial Medical Directory, 1848Google Scholar, 1855, 1861, and 1868.

4. Many years ago, Mr H. R. Lingwood gave me these references, which I have not since been able to verify. Mr Lingwood was a meticulous local historian who had accumulated information about Ipswich from obscure sources over a long period, and I have no hesitation in relying on him.