Monuments to Edward Wilson in Cheltenham

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: King, Carolyn
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2010
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Antarctic; South Pole; Antarc*; Polar Record; South pole
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247409990544; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247409990544

Edward Adrian Wilson was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England on 23 July 1872. He attended Cheltenham College and then proceeded to Cambridge where he read natural sciences and to St George's Hospital, London where he trained in medicine. His name is best known because of his participation in Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic expeditions of. 1901–1904 and 1910–1913. He reached the South Pole with Scott on 17 January 1912 and died with him on the return journey on or after 29 March 1912.