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.

[2] Rudmose-Brown was born on 13 September 1879, the younger son of an Arctic enthusiast, [3] and educated at Dulwich College.

[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.

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.