Robert Millner Shackleton. 30 December 1909 – 3 May 2001

• Published in: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
• Main Authors: Dewey, John Frederick, Leake, Bernard Elgey
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 2004
• Subjects: Antarctic; Herdman; Howell; Shackleton; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2004.0018; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbm.2004.0018

Robert Millner Shackleton, who died peacefully in his sleep on 3 May 2001, was born on 30 December 1909 in Purley, Surrey, the son of John Millner Shackleton (an electrical engineer of Irish derivation who, at one time, worked for the Post Office telephones) and Agnes Mitford Shackleton (née Abraham...