James Wordie

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Gender	Male
Death	62 years ago
Date of birth	April 26,1889
Zodiac sign	Taurus
Born	Partick
	Glasgow
	United Kingdom
Date of died	January 16,1962
Died	Cambridge
	United Kingdom
Parents	John Wordie
	Jane Catherine Mann
Job	Geologist
	Explorer
Education	The Glasgow Academy
	University of Glasgow
	St John's College
Awards	Founder's Gold Medal
First ascents	Beerenberg
Movies/Shows	South
Date of Reg.	2019-02-23 10:55:13
Date of Upd.	2023-07-23 11:40:19
ID	461721

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James Wordie Life story

Sir James Mann Wordie CBE FRS FRSGS LLD was a Scottish polar explorer and geologist. Friends knew him as Jock Wordie. He was President of the Royal Geographical Society from 1951 to 1954.

Shackleton's Endurance: The impossible search for the greatest shipwreck

Feb 4,2022 3:48 am

... Somewhere down there is the storekeeper Thomas Orde-Lees bicycle; the honey jars in which expedition biologist Robert Clark kept his samples; and the rocks geologist James Wordie collected from the bellies of penguins...