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27-686: The northern point of the range lies between Keltie Glacier , flowing from the east, and Mill Glacier flowing from the south and converging with Beardmore Glacier . Ranfurly Point is its northernmost point. Laird Glacier flows from the range in Keltie Glacier, and Snakeskin Glacier flows along the northeast side of the range into Keltie Glacier. Other features in the north include Scully Terrace, Mount Kinsey and Mount Westminster. Features further south include Mount Iveagh, Mount Judd, Mount White and Mount Henry Lucy. The Jensen Glacier flows along

54-517: A different thing to throw the whole place open with standing advertisement for eligible Members at a salary. The horde of impecunious babblers and busybodies attracted by such a bait would trample down the class of man who compose the present House of Commons and who are, in various ways, in touch with all the multiform interests of the nation. The Strand Magazine , 1893 I would rather have been editor of Punch , than Emperor of India Yesterday Herbert Spencer died at Brighton. His natural temperament

81-579: A financial supporter of the expedition. 85°04′S 169°38′E  /  85.067°S 169.633°E  / -85.067; 169.633 . A broad mountain in the Supporters Range, overlooking the east side of Mill Glacier 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) northwest of Mount White. Discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-09 and named for Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh , who helped finance

108-490: A little toadie, who afterwards toadied himself into a title". Ambrose Bierce , 1910. Lucy wrote many articles for Punch , The Strand Magazine , Harper's Magazine , Cornhill Magazine , The New York Times and others. Some of these are noted below. Lucy wrote two autobiographies , each in three volumes: Sixty Years in the Wilderness The Diary of a Journalist On occasion Lucy used one of

135-401: Is now known as "Lucys" on Lucys Hill). Lucy left a huge sum of money, over £250,000, and was probably the wealthiest Victorian journalist who was not also a newspaper proprietor. In his will he endowed a "Sir William Henry Lucy Bed" at Shrewsbury's Royal Salop Infirmary "in memory of his pleasant connection with Shrewsbury" as a journalist. In 1935, his widow Lady Lucy donated £1,000 to found

162-492: Is spasmodic, the strength artificial, and the listener has a feeling that at any moment a spring may break, a screw go loose, and the whole machinery come to a sudden stop. Remarking on the Liberal counterpart's performance in the chamber, he sensed that Gladstone 's tours de force are perfectly natural. When after one of his great speeches he resumes his seat, he is, and often proves himself to be, ready to start again. With

189-535: The Shropshire News . Before giving notice to the Chronicle he wrote leader articles for the other Shrewsbury papers, which mostly replied to his own leaders in the Chronicle the week before, besides writing "penny-a-liners" of Shropshire news for London newspapers. Lucy married on 29 October 1873 Emily Anne (1847–1937), daughter of his old schoolmaster at Liverpool, John White. There were no children of

216-831: The Sir Henry Lucy Scholarship at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby . There are several portraits of Sir Henry Lucy at the National Portrait Gallery , including one by John Singer Sargent . The mixed perceptions of his personality have been left to modern biographers to examine more deeply. US President Woodrow Wilson credited Lucy with propelling him into public life, describing his articles in The Gentleman's Magazine as "the deciding impulse of [my] life; vivid descriptions of Parliament, which took an enthralling hold on [my] young imagination" ( The New York Times , 1912). "Never in

243-697: The British Antarctic Expedition 1907-09 and named for Sir Henry Lucy , M.P., who publicized Shackleton's expedition and assisted in obtaining a financial grant from Parliament for the expedition. Keltie Glacier Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.133 via cp1102 cp1102, Varnish XID 547009812 Upstream caches: cp1102 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:39:44 GMT Henry Lucy Sir Henry William Lucy JP , (5 December 1842 – 20 February 1924)

270-748: The Department of Lands and Survey, New Zealand, for Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand, 1897-1904. 84°53′S 169°06′E  /  84.883°S 169.100°E  / -84.883; 169.100 . A bold, flat-topped terrace which is triangular in plan and borders the northwest part of Supporters Range between Ranfurly Point and Mount Kinsey, on the east side of upper Beardmore Glacier. Named in 1986 by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after R. Tucker Scully, Director, Office of Oceans and Polar Affairs, United States Department of State, with responsibility for policy and negotiations relative to Antarctic resources, conservation, and

297-706: The Home Rule Parliament, 1892–1895 (1896), A Diary of the Unionist Parliament, 1895–1900 (1901), and The Balfourian Parliament, 1900–1905 (1906). They amount to a history of the Commons in its heyday and have been extensively mined by historians. Lucy was a long-running friend and fund-raiser for Shackleton's expeditions to the South Pole. His generosity exceeded Shackleton's expectations, guaranteeing their success. Knighted in 1909, he

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324-675: The House, but always of it, Lucy seemed to occupy for a long time a position of his own, as a species of familiar spirit or licensed jester, without which no Parliament was complete." The journalist and writer Frank Harris said of Lucy: "He met everyone, and knew no-one." Mount Henry Lucy (3,020 metres) in Antarctica was named after him by Shackleton in 1909, as thanks for Lucy's help in publicising his Nimrod Expedition and raising funds. "Shackleton's naming an Antarctic mountain after Sir Henry Lucy amuses me. I knew Lucy very well –

351-577: The Lords. His London home was at 42 Ashley Gardens, and he was a member of the National Liberal Club . A pioneer of the profession of public affairs consultancy, Lucy had already been awarded a knighthood, when invited to Buckingham Palace by Queen Mary , to whom he presented a gift of his political anecdote collection. Sir Henry Lucy died of bronchitis at Whitethorn , his country house at Hythe, Kent in 1924, aged 81. (The house

378-471: The Premier, the excitement of the moment over and the appointed task achieved, he falls into a state of prostration painful to witness. His eyes seem to lose all expression, his cheeks fall in, and his face takes on a ghastly hue. Physically he is at least ten years older than Gladstone. The House of Commons is unique in many ways. I believe the main foundation of the position it holds among the parliaments of

405-495: The affairs of the expedition in New Zealand. 84°59′S 169°22′E  /  84.983°S 169.367°E  / -84.983; 169.367 . A mountain, 3,370 metres (11,060 ft) high, on the east side of Beardmore Glacier, standing 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) south of Mount Kinsey. Discovered and named by the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-09. Named for Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster ,

432-651: The expedition. 85°04′S 170°26′E  /  85.067°S 170.433°E  / -85.067; 170.433 . A prominent bare rock mountain, over 2,400 metres (7,900 ft) high, surmounting the ridge running north from Mount White. Named by US-ACAN for Robert C. Judd, USARP meteorologist at South Pole Station, winter 1964, and Hallett Station, 1964-65 summer season. 85°09′S 170°18′E  /  85.150°S 170.300°E  / -85.150; 170.300 . A massive mountain, 3,470 metres (11,380 ft) high, standing 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) north-northwest of Mount Henry Lucy and forming

459-560: The following pseudonyms for his works. Lucy wrote a number of books: Lucy's analytical observations of the Conservative antagonist Benjamin Disraeli were characteristic: The physical energy with which this election speech was delivered was certainly very remarkable for a man in his seventy-fourth year. There is, however, unmistakeable evidence of pumping up in the Premier's ( Beaconsfield's ) latest oratorical feats. The vigour

486-505: The highest elevation in the Supporters Range. Discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-09 and named for the Secretary of the expedition. 85°11′S 170°26′E  /  85.183°S 170.433°E  / -85.183; 170.433 . A prominent peak, 3,020 metres (9,910 ft) high, standing 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) south-southeast of Mount White at the south end of Supporters Range. Discovered by

513-502: The inspection of foreign stations under the Antarctic Treaty. 84°55′S 169°18′E  /  84.917°S 169.300°E  / -84.917; 169.300 . A mountain, 3,110 metres (10,200 ft) high, at the east edge of Beardmore Glacier, standing 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) southwest of Ranfurly Point. Named by the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-09 for J.J. Kinsey of Christchurch, who conducted

540-525: The marriage. Lucy lived in Paris during 1869 and learned French. After returning to England he wrote for Pall Mall Gazette from 1870 and as parliamentary reporter for Daily News from 1873. He stayed with the Liberal newspaper, for which he was promoted the editor. He was a parliamentary sketch writer for Punch magazine from 1881. In 1880, Lucy began writing for The Observer 's "Cross Bench" column. This he continued to do for 29 years. He used

567-551: The pseudonym "Toby, M.P." from 1881 to 1916. He wrote the weekly column "The Essence of Parliament" in Punch for 35 years. When not writing under one of his pseudonyms, he was usually styled Henry W. Lucy . Lucy's lasting memorial is in the volumes he compiled from his Punch parliamentary sketches: A Diary of Two Parliaments (2 vols., 1885–1886), A Diary of the Salisbury Parliament, 1886–1892 (1892), A Diary of

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594-596: The southeast of the range, separated from the Snakeskin Glacier by the Lhasa Nunatak . Features, from north to south, include: 84°50′S 169°36′E  /  84.833°S 169.600°E  / -84.833; 169.600 . A low rocky point marking the convergence of the Beardmore and Keltie Glaciers, at the northern extremity of Supporters Range. Named by D.B. Rainey, Cartographic Branch of

621-411: The world is the condition of volunteered unremunerated service. In spite of the sneers from disappointed or flippant persons, a seat in the House of Commons remains one of the highest prizes of citizen life. There is no reason why any constituency desiring to do so may not return a member on the terms of paying him a salary. It is done in several cases, in two at least with the happiest results. It would be

648-713: Was a famed English political journalist of the Victorian era , acknowledged as the first great lobby correspondent . He wrote for Punch , The Strand Magazine , The Observer , The New York Times and many other papers. He also wrote books, detailing the workings of the Houses of Parliament and two autobiographies. He was knighted in 1909. Lucy was widely known also in North America. President Woodrow Wilson said Lucy's articles in The Gentleman's Magazine inspired his mind and propelled him into public life. Lucy

675-567: Was a serious parliamentary commentator, but also an accomplished humorist and a parliamentary sketch-writer . His friend, the explorer Ernest Shackleton , named a mountain in Antarctica after him. Henry Lucy was born in Crosby , near Liverpool in 1842, the son of Robert Lucy, a rose-engine turner in the watch trade, and his wife, Margaret Ellen Kemp. He was baptised, William Henry on 23 April 1843 at St. Michael's Church , Crosby. While he

702-591: Was still an infant the family removed to Everton, Liverpool , where he attended the private Crescent School until August 1856; thereafter until 1864 he was junior clerk to Robert Smith, hide merchant, of Redcross Street, Liverpool. While working as a clerk he had poetry published in the Liverpool Mercury ; taught himself shorthand. Worked for the Shrewsbury Chronicle as chief reporter from 1864, and for Shrewsbury 's local Observer , and

729-434: Was the first lobby correspondent to be seen as a social equal of the politicians in the Commons on whom he reported. He rose to national prominence during the constitutional crises of 1909–1910, during which he revealed to the Commons that Navy estimates had been as much as £60 million all along. His article was used as evidence by Hugh Foster MP to demand clarity from the government on the budgetary proposals being blocked in

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