When Tom Crean was headhunted Surprisingly absent from the timeline of Tom Crean’s story until I got stuck into my research for Crean’s biography, is a man called Joseph Foster Stackhouse. Born in 1873 to a Quaker family in Kendal, the gateway to England’s Lake District, Stackhouse had been a […]
Joseph Foster Stackhouse
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A story that deserves a fitting end A man his leaders relied on To the men he served under, Tom Crean was a vital cog in the wheel that saw them pioneer exploration of the most inhospitable continent on Earth. It’s a fact that both Shackleton and Scott valued and relied […]