Robert Rudmose-Brown

Consultant, Scottish Spitsbergen Syndicate Vice-president, International Polar Congress Lecturer (geography), Sheffield University

Robert Neal Rudmose-Brown (13 September 1879 – 27 January 1957) was a Scottish academic botanist[1] and polar explorer.

[4] At Dundee he met William Speirs Bruce who invited him to join the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition where he catalogued the wildlife of the South Orkney Islands.

In 1907 he was appointed a lecturer in geography at Sheffield University and spent several seasons as a field botanist in Svalbard.

As a result of this when war came he worked at the Intelligence Department of the Naval Staff in London with responsibility for Arctic information, a role he reprised between 1939 and 1945.