Shackleton.

Miss Janet Stancomb-Wills, town councillor, philanthropist, suffragette, and major donor to the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

“As a result, or otherwise, Shackleton extracted from Dudley Docker, of the BSA company in Birmingham, a gift of £10,000 to pay for Endurance. Lord Iveagh, once more, guaranteed a loan, this time for £5,000. Finally, an Australian banker living in London, Sir. Robert Lucas-Tooth, guaranteed another £5,000. It was enough to save the government grant, which was officially announced on 4 May. Only half was to be paid that year, however. The remaining £5,000 had to wait until 1915. Various benefactors obliged with small donations. Neville Chamberlain, for example, then an alderman of Birmingham, gave £5. Elizabeth Dawson-Lambton, faithful still, produced money for Shackleton yet again. The big donors hung back, but at this point Shackleton approached a wealthy spinster called Janet Stancomb-Wills.”
— Roland Huntford

“I have pleasure in giving you my cheque for £24,000 without any conditions in the hope that others may make their gifts for this Imperial journey also free of all conditions.”
— Sir James Caird, 17 June 1914

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“Frank Wild was a placid little man whom nothing ever upset… we always called him Frankie, or Frank, nobody ever called him anything else, the lower deck always called him Mr. Wild. They were never required to but they did automatically. He was a man who exercised a wonderful control without any outward sign of authority.”
— Alexander Macklin

“The top post as second-in-command went to Frank Wild, a very small but powerfully built man whose thin, mousy hair was rapidly disappearing altogether. Wild was a soft-spoken and easy-going individual on the surface, but he had a kind of inner toughness… The two men, in fact, formed a well-matched team. Wild’s loyalty to Shackleton was beyond question, and his quiet, somewhat unimaginative disposition was a perfect balance for Shackleton’s often whimsical and occasionally explosive nature.”
— Alfred Lansing

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