Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton, Baron Shackleton
(1911-1994), Geographer and politician; son of Sir Ernest ShackletonSitter in 8 portraits
A geographer and Labour Party politician, and was the son of the Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. In 1934 Shackleton organised the Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition and choose Gordon Noel Humphreys to lead it. Shackleton accompanied the party as the assistant surveyor to Humphreys. The expedition was eventually responsible for naming Mount Oxford (after the University of Oxford) and the British Empire Range. In 1946, Shackleton was elected to Parliament as a Labour MP. He stood down in 1955 and was made a life peer three years later. He served in a number of senior roles in Harold Wilson's government, including Minister for Defence and Paymaster General.
Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton, Baron Shackleton
by Nick Sinclair
bromide print, 1992
NPG P510(36)
Henry Shackleton; Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton, Baron Shackleton
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, circa 1911
NPG x36031
Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton, Baron Shackleton
by Edward Lyddell Sawyer
vintage print, mid 1910s
NPG x36022
Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton, Baron Shackleton; Cecily Jane Swinford Shackleton
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, circa 1918
NPG x36024
by Unknown photographer
vintage print, circa 1920
NPG x36023
Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton, Baron Shackleton
by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 4 June 1969
NPG x165973
Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton, Baron Shackleton
by Rowland Roques
bromide print, 1982
NPG x35374
Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton, Baron Shackleton
by Rex Coleman, for Baron Studios
5 x 4 inch film negative, 13 June 1962
NPG x191394
Related People
- Cecily Jane Swinford Shackleton (sister)
- Emily Mary (née Dorman), Lady Shackleton (mother)
- Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (father)
- Henry Shackleton (grandfather)
- Kathleen Shackleton (aunt)
- Raymond Swinford Shackleton (brother)
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