1. Sir James Mann Wordie CBE FRS FRSGS LLD was a Scottish polar explorer and geologist.
16 Facts About James Wordie
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James Wordie was President of the Royal Geographical Society from 1951 to 1954.
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James Wordie went on to study Sciences at the University of Glasgow, graduating with a BSc in Geology in 1910.
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James Wordie then studied at St John's College, Cambridge, graduating with an MA in 1912, after which he undertook research.
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James Wordie's occupation brought him in contact with Frank Debenham and Raymond Priestley, who were members of the second Antarctic expedition of Robert Falcon Scott.
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In 1914, James Wordie joined Sir Ernest Shackleton's expedition to the Antarctic, known as the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, where he acted as geologist and chief of scientific staff.
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James Wordie was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Back Award in 1920.
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James Wordie became the elder statesman of British polar exploration, and few expeditions left Britain without first consulting Wordie.
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James Wordie was chairman of the Committee of Management of the Scott Polar Research Institute and president of the Royal Geographical Society from 1951 to 1954.
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James Wordie contributed to the British Naval Intelligence Division Geographical Handbook Series that was published during World War II.
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James Wordie died at Grange Court, Grange Road in Cambridge on 16 January 1962.
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James Wordie is buried in the churchyard of the Church of the Holy Rude in Stirling, Scotland.
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James Wordie was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1922.
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James Wordie's proposers were Frederick Orpen Bower, Andrew Gray, James Gordon Gray and James Currie.
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James Wordie was awarded the first W S Bruce Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in 1926, the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1933 and the Scottish Geographical Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in 1944.
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James Wordie was made Master of St John's College, Cambridge and in 1957 was knighted for his contributions to polar expeditions.