ALL GOOD WISHES

 

From a 2011 e-Bay auction in Great Britain.

"A rare original autograph signed in ink by ROSALIND CHETWYND the American born actress ( Rosa Lynd ). Most famous for her affair with the Polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton between 1910-1922. It reads " All Good Wishes From Yours Sincerely Rosalind Chetwynd.

SHACKELTON THE FILM

 

MEN WANTED FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY

VIAJES ELPAIS. COM on SHACKELTON

 

 

THIS IS THE AD he placed to find men who wanted the adventure of a journey that was hazardous, paid badly, and risked danger.

"SOMETHING TO KEEP YOU WARM IN ANTARTICA DEAR"

Mistress Rosalind Chetwynd  gave Sir Ernest this sweater and it sold at auction in 2012 at Christies for $15, 028.


DINOSAURS AND ROBOTS LINK to picture and auction info 

GOOGLE HONORED SHACKLETON'S BIRTHDAY WITH THIS SPECIAL PAGE HEADER

SHACKLETON'S BIRTHDAY HITS THE GOOGLE HEADLINES


Shackleton enthusiasts will be delighted to know that on Shackleton's birthdate, 15th February 2011, Google honoured the great explorer with one of its special page headers.

It looked like this:

 

 

A quote from the JAMES CAIRD SOCIETY WEB SITE:

 

"On his return to Britain, Shackleton was restless and began drinking too much: 'frivolously boyish' was one acquaintance's opinion of his behaviour. He found domestic life stifling and veered between irritability and remorse. He was sent on a war propaganda mission to Buenos Aires, unsuccessfully trying to persuade Argentina and Chile to forsake neutrality and enter the war with the Allies. Then in 1918 he headed an undercover expedition to establish a British presence in the far north of neutral Norway (where he had a suspected heart attack). Finally, following the Armistice in November, he became 'staff officer in charge of Arctic equipment' during the Allies' war against the Bolsheviks in the new Soviet Union, remaining in Murmansk as little more than a glorified storekeeper. Most of the time in between he lived at the Mayfair home of his mistress, American divorcée Rosalind Chetwynd. South, his account of the Endurance escapade, was published in 1919 and he hit the lecture circuit with tales of the ordeal."

 

JAMES CAIRD SOCIETY LINK to SHACKELTON PAGE

ROSALIND SECOR CHETWYND (ACTRESS ROSA LYND) : MISTRESS OF SIR EARNEST SHACKLETON of ANTARTICA FAME

The married Antarctic explorer Sir Earnest Shackleton was involved with the American born actress ROSALIND CHETWYND, also known as ROSA LYND, from 1910-1922.  He lived in her Mayfair, London home much of the time, while he and his wife had three children.

(This picture of Rosalind is from a closed e-Bay auction in Great Britain - via Google Images.)

As depicted in the film starring Kenneth Branagh about the 1914 Endurance expedition to the South Pole, which appeared doomed after their ship got stuck and then crushed by ice, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton was a rugged and commanding leader.  He took his party of 28 men to cross Antarctica by foot, pulling two small boats with them, and hoping to get to a whaling station.  Effort alone wasn't enough.  By some miracle they made it. 

The communication systems that exist today that make the South Pole a photo-op for politicians, and the kind of tough but doable travel as exhibited by Prince Harry and a group of disabled veterans in recent times, was not available in the early 20th century, so there was no way for Skackleton and his men to let it be known that they were stranded and needed a rescue. Shackleton was gone a couple years and even considered to be dead.  In one scene in the movie his wife and his mistress talk on the phone.  Neither is giving up on him yet. That made me curious; WHO WAS HIS MISTRESS?

According the obituary that appeared in the New York Times on October 10, 1922, Rosalind Secor was the daughter of William Holt Secor, a New York lawyer, and became "Rosa Lynd", the actress. In 1902 she married Guy Chetwynd, son of Sir George Chetwynd, who was part of the peerage. The couple had a child together, Sir Victor James Guy Chetwynd, 6th Bt. born 14 Nov 1902.  (At some point the couple divorced.) She died in London, suddenly, on October 9, 1922.

So Rosalind is a relatively unknown person, while her man was and is world famous!
(Not so unusual, you know!)