![]() ![]() Rejected a second time, he made the donation regardless. Cherry's application to join the expedition was initially rejected as Scott was looking for scientists, but he made a second application along with a promise of £1,000 (equivalent to £109,000 in 2021) towards the cost of the expedition. This was Scott's second and last expedition to Antarctica. Antarctica Īt the age of 24, 'Cherry' was one of the youngest members of the Terra Nova expedition. ![]() ![]() In September 1907, Edward Adrian Wilson met with Robert Falcon Scott at Reginald Smith's home in Cortachy, to discuss another Antarctic expedition Smith's young cousin Apsley Cherry-Garrard happened to visit and decided to volunteer. Apsley inherited the estate on his father's death in 1907.Ĭherry-Garrard had always been enamoured of the stories of his father's achievements in India and China where he had fought with merit for the British Army, and felt that he must live up to his father's example. His surname was changed to Cherry-Garrard by the terms of his great-aunt's will, through which his father inherited the Lamer Park estate near Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire. The Cherry-Garrard family with Apsley on the right ![]()
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