Scoresby

Scoresby, WILLIAM, D,D. (1789-1857), Arctic explorer, was born in Yorkshire, and was the son of a master-mariner, to whom he was apprenticed. Being of a studious disposition, he afterwards entered Edinburgh University, and took a degree. He then became commander of a whaler, and published his work, The Arctic Regions, in 1819. After the death of his wife he became a clergyman, but still voyaged occasionally and made some very valuable observations and surveys, and published also the results of some important magnetical researches instituted by him.