Australian explorer born St. Fagans, Glamorgan, near Cardiff, Wales, one of the members of the Shackleton's second expedition (1907-1909) which located the magnetic south pole, and returned to Sydney as hero. B.A. at Oxford University (1881) and postgraduate at the Royal College of Science, London (1882), then Assistant Geological Surveyor of the Geological Survey of New South Wales (1882-1891) and professor of geology at the University of Sydney (1891-1924).
Eager to contribute to the war effort, he organized a corps of miners and engineers to travel to the Western Front (1915). He then joined the tunnellers as a major in the AIF, then served as chief geologist for the British Expeditionary Force. Knight (1920 he spent the last years of his life in an ambitious attempt to produce a summary of Australia's geology and published a detailed geological map of the continent (1932). He died in Sydney (1934) and was granted a state funeral. His daughter Mary published an affectionate and entertaining biography of her father, Professor David (1937).
Source: http://www.dec.ufcg.edu.br/biografias/
Order T - Biography - Brazil School
Source: Brazil School - https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/biografia/tannatt-william-edgeworth-david.htm
