Philip Brocklehurst

Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst, 2nd Baronet (7 March 1887 – 28 January 1975[1]) is known particularly as a member of the Nimrod Expedition in Antarctica of 1907–1909, led by Ernest Shackleton.

[4] Brocklehurst was educated at Eton College (1 year only), Park Holm, Buxton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he left without taking a degree.

[4][5] Ernest Shackleton, looking for members of his proposed expedition to Antarctica, met Brocklehurst in London in 1906, and was impressed by his boxing achievements.

[8] After a base was established in Antarctica at Cape Royds in February 1908, he was one of a party which climbed the volcano Mount Erebus (unclimbed until then).

The party of Edgeworth David, Douglas Mawson, Alistair Mackay, Eric Marshall, Brocklehurst and Jameson Adams started on 5 March.