Clarence Howard Hare collection

The collection comprises of material relating to the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904 (leader Robert Falcon Scott) and correspondence by Hare.

Clarence Howard Hare was born in Invercargill, New Zealand, on 2 December 1880. He was educated at East Christchurch School, after which he worked as a clerk in New Zealand and Fiji. It was while working as a clerk in Lyttelton that he was recruited as assistant steward on the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904 (leader Robert Falcon Scott). He took part in the sledging programme, including an attempt on Cape Crozier in March 1902. His one-year engagement terminated, he joined the relief ship Morning in March 1903, returning to Lyttelton, and went on to England in Discovery a year later.

On his return to New Zealand in 1904, he took various jobs on sheep and cattle farms before returning to office work in Christchurch. He became a professional piano tuner and repairer, working in the Australian cities of Sydney and Melbourne, and he retired in 1957. He died in Australia on 31 May 1967.

The collection is split into two sub-fonds, covering expedition material and correspondence respectively.

By appointment.

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Descriptions compiled by N. Boneham, Assistant Archivist with assistance from R. Stancombe and reference to Antarctic (September 1967) volume 4 number 11 p579-580 and Encyclopaedia of Antarctica and the Southern Oceans ed. Bernard Stonehouse, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester (2002) ISBN 0471986658 SPRI Library (7) and Robert Keith Headland Antarctic Chronology, unpublished corrected revision of Chronological list of Antarctic expeditions and related historical events, (1 December 2001) (Cambridge University Press 1989) ISBN 0521309034

Clive Holland Manuscripts in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England - a catalogue, Garland Publishing, New York and London (1982) ISBN 0824093941.

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Further accessions possible.

See SPRI collection Leslie Quartermain (MS 671/13 Letters (2) to Reginald Pound, 1965)