Dr. Andre Chissel B.Sc (Hons), M.Sc, PhD is a British Ex Pat living in Singapore and a qualified Australian and New Zealand Patent and Trade Mark Attorney as well as a European Design Attorney. He has an interest in the War of 1982 and has published an online book about the bombing of the British military hospital at Ajax Bay entitled ‘Air Raid Warning Red !’ which is available on request.
Bill Featherstone has made multiple donations of papers and ephemera to the Falkland Islands Museum and to over 20 museums in the UK and Europe. He has just retired as Editor of the Upland Goose, Journal of the Falkland Islands Philatelic Study Group after 18 years in charge, and is now concentrating, as Trustee on the exciting projects being undertaken by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust.
Ian Hart is a whaling historian who has written several books about the history of whaling worldwide, with particular interest in the Antarctic, the peri-Antarctic islands, Brazil and the Hebrides in Scotland. He has contributed a good number of biographies to the Dictionary of Falklands Biographies and written the biography of the former South Georgia magistrate Edward B. Binnie. He is a Shackleton Scholar and was awarded a Morag Husband Campbell medal in 2024 for his outstanding contributions to the history and heritage of South Georgia. He first ventured to the Falkland Islands in 1963 as a crew member of the Danish ship A.E.S. on charter to the Falkland Islands Company. He visited South Georgia for the first time in 1989 onboard HMS Endurance and was the first curator of the South Georgia Museum 1992-96. Ian Hart is a retired land-surveyor and land reclamation officer and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Robin Isherwood is a retired accountant living in Lancashire. As a schoolboy his favourite subject was Geography, so when the Falklands were invaded in 1982 he knew quite a lot about the them (unlike the vast majority of people in the UK). His schoolboy hero was Sir Ernest Shackleton and having read every book on him that he could find, it became a lifelong ambition to stand next to his grave in Grytviken, South Georgia. He never thought there was a remote possibility – but in 2018 he managed to go to the Falklands and then on to South Georgia and then to the Atlantic Peninsula. This must have stimulated his interest and for some reason he decided to do an updated Gazetteer of the Falkland Islands, in order to identify the location of all the ‘lesser known’ place- names, which were not easy to find in Atlases or on the internet. He is a keen cricket enthusiast and a member of the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (UK).
John Milsom is a retired exploration geophysicist and author of The Hunt for Earth Gravity, a history of the use of measurements of gravity field to study Earth shape and structure. It was while carrying out research for that book that he came on the story of viiithe scientific voyage and ultimate wreck of the Uranie in Berkeley Sound. Pendulums for gravity measurement were among the instruments carried and were saved from the wreck to make the first ever gravity measurements in the Falkland Islands. Together with Sylvie Brassard of the University of Western Australia, he is currently preparing an annotated translation of the memoirs of Joseph-Paul Gaimard, junior surgeon on the Uranie, for publication by the Hakluyt Society. He currently lives in the Welsh border town of Presteigne.
Hugh Osborne has been collecting Falkland Island stamps for at least the last 35 years, now specializing in South Georgia Postal History. He was Chairman of the Falkland Islands Philatelic Study Group 2006 to 2013 and is a Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society, London and Secretary of the Friends of the Falkland Islands Museum and the Jane Cameron National Archives (FIMA).
Stephen Palmer served as Rector of Christ Church Cathedral in the 1990s. During his time in the Falklands, he was encouraged by Jane Cameron to start contributing to the Falkland Islands Journal – and he has done so every year since 1995. On his return to the UK, he completed a PhD on a Falklands-related subject. He is now retired from full-time ministry.
Phil Stone is a Research Associate with the British Geological Survey. He has worked in South Georgia (with the British Antarctic Survey) and the Falkland Islands where, between 1998 and 2008, he acted as geological adviser to the Department of Mineral Resources.
David Tatham was born in York in 1939, read history at Wadham College, Oxford and entered the Diplomatic Service in 1960. From 1992 to 1995 he was governor of the Falkland Islands and commissioner for South Georgia. After retiring in 1999 he edited and published a Dictionary of Falklands Biography in 2008. He is a vice-president of the Falkland Islands Association, president of the South Georgia Association and president of the Friends of the Falkland Islands Museum and Jane Cameron National Archives.
Edward Walsh has researched and written about 19 th century Irish migration history and the Irish people (including the Catholic priests) who came to live and work in the Falklands. He was awarded a Shackleton Scholarship in 2006 and is a contributor to the Dictionary of Falklands Biography. He lives and works in London.