Thomas W. Bagshawe

Thomas Wyatt Bagshawe (18 April 1901 – 28 January 1976 ) was an explorer, museum curator and folklorist.

Early life Bagshawe was born in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, on 18 April 1901, and attended Rugby School before reading geology at Cambridge University.

Graham Land Expedition

In 1920, Bagshawe left his studies to take up an opportunity to join the British Graham Land Expedition to Antarctica, to continue mapping the western coastline of the Weddell Sea.

As their base, Bagshawe and Lester constructed a hut out of an abandoned whalers' water boat and packing cases. They managed to continue their work, carrying out observations of weather conditions, tidal measurements and studies of penguins, before being picked up by a Norwegian whaling ship in January 1922. Later, the Bagshawe Glacier, on the Danco coast of Antarctica, was named after him.

In 1933 he was awarded the Museum Association's diploma. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1928 and of the Royal Historical Society in 1932.

Bagshawe was also a member of the Folklore Society, often submitting to its journal, news from museums with folklore and folk life collections. Bagshawe served as President of the Folklore Society in 1955 and was also elected a Fellow of both the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Historical Society. Bagshawe, Thomas Wyatt (1940). Pompey was a Penguin. London: Oxford University Press. OCLC 156587984.