Fram Farrington
James Edward Butler Futtit Farrington (6 April 1908 – 4 October 2002) (originally called Butler; later known universally as Fram)[1] was a key member of a secret wartime Antarctic expeditionary force and the last surviving holder of the Polar Medal in Bronze, abolished after 1941.[2]
Early life
Farrington was born on 6 April 1908, in
First visits to polar regions
After serving on
Wartime service
After the outbreak of war, Farrington became an
Post war
On his return from the Antarctic in 1946, Farrington became a scientific officer with the Telecommunications Research Establishment at Malvern, moving two years later to the new electronics division at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell. He retired in 1975 and returned to Northern Ireland in 1989, where he died on 4 October 2002, survived by his wife and son.[10]
Bibliography
- Thurston, Michael H. (1974). Crustacea Amphipoda from Graham Land and the Scotia arc, collected by Operation Tabarin and the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1944-59. London: British Antarctic Survey. ISBN 0856650242.
References
- ^ Stemming from a schoolboy holiday to Framlington-on-Sea Daily Telegraph Obituary
- S2CID 233314649. Retrieved 28 April 2018 – via Cambridge Core.
- ISBN 978-0-75249-356-5.
- ^ "University Library - University of Southampton". soton.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
- ISBN 978-0-75249-356-5.
- ^ It has, however, since been awarded to him after his death: Telegraph Obituary (ibid)
- ^ a predecessor of the British Antarctic Survey, launched to safeguard British interests south of the Falkland Islands, where both the Argentine and Chilean governments asserted claims to sovereignty War II-60.htm Further explanation[permanent dead link]
- ^ "ObituariesPR". antarctic-circle.org. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
- ^ Explanation of ruling
- ISBN 978-0-75249-356-5.