Thomas Frank McLeod (10 November 1873 – 16 December 1960) was a Scottish sailor who took part in three expeditions to the South Pole.
He first went to sea aged 14, and in 1910 joined the Terra Nova Expedition, led by Robert Falcon Scott as an able seaman (AS).
A year later, in 1914, McLeod joined the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, this time led by Ernest Shackleton, again serving as an able seaman.
[2] Once the men of the Endurance were rescued from Elephant Island, McLeod later bestowed the Bible to a family that he was staying with during his convalescence in Punta Arenas.
[2] McLeod was a lifelong bachelor,[4] and in his later years he moved into a retirement home in Kingston, Ontario, where he died on 16 December 1960, aged 87.