Robert Falcon Scott was born into a reasonably well to do family in Devon, England in 1868. There was a tradition of seafaring on both his mothers and fathers sides of the family and he first went to sea at the age of 13 years old. He learnt his trade well and progressed through the ranks of the Royal Navy.
He met by chance a geographer called Clements Markham, while on Naval duty in the West Indies. Markham was impressed by Scott's intelligence, enthusiasm and charm and wrote "My final conclusion was that Scott was the destined man to command the Antarctic Expedition".
Scott later met Clements Markham once again. While home on leave in June, 1899; "Chancing one day to be walking down the Buckingham Palace Road, I espied Sir Clements Markham and accompanied him to his house. That afternoon I learned for the first time that there was such a thing as a prospective Antarctic Expedition; two days later I wrote applying to command it". - Scott wrote, in The Voyage of the Discovery,
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