M’Kay, Alister Forbes ♂

Education

Student U.C.D. [University College Dundee] 1893-1894 Summer session 1894.

Birth/childhood

Born 22.2.1878 at Carskey, Kintyre

Attended Campbeltown Grammar School and George Watson’s School, Edinburgh (7).

Career

Also at Edinburgh University - M.B. 1901.

Served in Boer War. One of party of three who first reached magnetic South Pole in 1908. Appears on stamp of Australian Antarctic Territory. [Soldier, explorer, doctor]

Death

Died on Stefansson Expedition to Arctic 1914.

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