MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

“Generous £10,300 Donation” to Shackleton Scholarship FundNew Shackleton Bursary.

The success of an exhibition commemorating the Antarctic explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton , at his old school, Dulwich College in London, has resulted in a valuable donation of £10,300 (15,000 dollars) to the Shackleton Scholarship Fund in memory of Shackleton and his son, Lord Shackleton.

A similar sum from the proceeds has enabled the College to set up a separate Shackleton bursary. In a letter acknowledging what he called this "handsome donation", the Chairman of the London Committee of the Shackleton Fund, Mr David Tatham, has thanked the Master of Dulwich College, Mr Graham Able, and the College Governors, for their generosity.

Mr Tatham said: "The money will enable the Shackleton Scholarship Fund to pay for academic scholars to visit the South Atlantic as part of their research and for Quality of Life scholars to visit the Falkland Islands to entertain and instruct the Islanders in a great variety of artistic and sporting pursuits". Mr Tatham added: "We must also thank the enduring appeal of that great old Alleynian (former pupil of Dulwich College) himself....the exhibition touched the growing enthusiasm around the world for Sir Ernest Shackleton's achievements."

Mr Tatham, the Fund's principal founder, paid tribute to the College Archivist and Curator, Dr Jan Piggott, for his "brilliant organisation" of the exhibition which, during its four months, attracted thousands of visitors from the United States, Canada, South Africa, and Ireland as well as the United Kingdom.

Entitled " Shackleton: the Antarctic and Endurance", it was mounted in co-operation with the James Caird Society (named after Shackleton's famous lifeboat) and opened by Sir Ernest's granddaughter, the Honourable Alexandra Shackleton. The exhibits included the James Caird, as well as works by two members of the 1914 expedition, oil paintings by George Marston and the famous photographs of Frank Hurley; and memorabilia from the National Maritime Museum, the Royal Geographical Society, the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge, and other institutions, the Shackleton family, and descendants of Shackleton's men.

More than a century after he was a pupil at the college, the explorer's fame is not just raising money for good causes but also attracting a fresh wave of international interest. A quarter of a million visitors thronged two Shackleton exhibitions in the United States two years ago. New books, films, television and radio programmes, and media articles have focused on his exploits.

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