Sir Ernest Shackleton.
Sir Ernest Shackleton was born on 17 of February1874 in Kilea near Athy,county kildare, Ireland about 30 miles (48 km) from Dublin. His fathers name was Henry Shackleton,and his mothers name was Henrietta Letitia Sophia Garvan.His Fathers family is Anglo-Irish, originally from Yorkshire,England.His Mothers family was Irish from cork.Ernest was the second of their ten children and the first of two sons the second,Frank his brother,was a suspect for theft for steeling from Ireland's Crown Jewels.