Hugh Robert Mill

Hugh Robert Mill

Hugh Robert Mill (28 May 1861 – 5 April 1950) was a Scottish geographer and meteorologist who was influential in the reform of geography teaching, and in the development of meteorology as a science. [cite web|url=http://www.todayinsci.com/5/5_28.htm|title=Today in Science History|accessdate=2008-06-10|publisher=www.todayinsci.com] Educated in Scotland, he graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1883. In 1892 he was appointed librarian to the Royal Geographical Society in London, a post which he held during the Society's involvement with the leading British Antarctic expeditions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was a friend and confidant to Scott, Shackleton, and especially to William Speirs Bruce, who led the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902–04. He initiated Bruce's move from medicine to polar research by recommending him to the Dundee Whaling Expedition to the Antarctic, 1892–93, and to other Arctic expeditions. [Speak, P. 17] In 1923 he produced the first full-length biography of Shackleton.

Mill is commemorated by the Mill Glacier, a tributary of the Beardmore Glacier at coord|85|10|S|168|30|E

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*cite web|url=http://www.todayinsci.com/5/5_28.htm|title=Today in Science History|accessdate=2008-06-10|publisher=www.todayinsci.com
*Speak, Peter: "William Speirs Bruce, Polar Explorer and Scottish Nationalist" National Museums of Scotland Publishing, Edinburgh 2003 ISBN 1 901663 71 X


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