Tannatt William Edgeworth (Edgeworth) David (1858–1934)

Geologist. BA, Oxford, 1881. Assistant geological surveyor, New South Wales, Australia, 1882. Professor of geology, Sydney, 1891. Leader of an expedition to Funafuti atoll in the Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu) to bore a deep section, 1897–8. Joined Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition, 1907–9. Knighted, 1920.