Background
SHACKLETON, Robert was born on December 30, 1909 in Purley, Surrey. Son of John Milner Shackleton and Agnes Mitford Shackleton.
SHACKLETON, Robert was born on December 30, 1909 in Purley, Surrey. Son of John Milner Shackleton and Agnes Mitford Shackleton.
Sidcot School, Somerset, University of Liverpool and Imperial College, London.
Lecturer, Imperial College 1934-1940. Geologist, Geological Survey, Kenya 1940-1945. Lecturer, Imperial College 1945-1948.
Herdman Professor, of Geology, University of Liverpool 1948-1963.
Professor, of Geology, University of Leeds 1963-1976, Director Research Institute of African Geology 1966-1976. Senior Research Fellow, Open University since 1977.
Visiting Professor, Imperial College 1985-1989.
Married 1st Gwen Isabel Harland in 1933 (divorced). Married 2nd Judith Wyndham Jeffreys in 1948 (divorced). Married 3rd Peigi Wallace in 1983.
