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ENDURANCE — Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton(1874-1922) The Shackleton Family came originally from Yorkshire. The father of the family was Abraham Shackleton, a Quaker who moved to Ireland early in the eighteenth century and started a school at Ballytore, near Dublin. Henry Shackleton, Earnests father, was Abrahams direct descendant in the fourth generation.? He was brought up an Anglican, not a Quaker, of the first generation apostates. He tried to enter the army but sickness stopped him, and he became a farmer instead. Ernest Shackleton was born on February 15, 1874, in later years he liked to