Frank Debenham (1883–1965) by Herbert George Ponting, 1911 © Popperfoto
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J. A. Steers
revised by Elizabeth Baigent
Debenham, Frank (1883–1965), geographer and polar scientist, was born at Bowral, New South Wales, on 26 December 1883, the second son of the Revd John Willmott Debenham, vicar of Bowral and schoolmaster, and his wife, Edith Cleveland. He attended the school run by his father and, after his death in 1898, by his mother, and from there went to the ...