In 2012, George and Valerie Skinner wrote "William Lashly- A Tribute", drawing together as much information as they could about the life of William. A limited number of copies of the study was printed for family use. The report may be read by clicking on the file at the bottom of the page.

Note on Copyright

In William Lashly - a Tribute we have drawn widely on published sources. We have also included the full text of the notes provided by William to Apsley Cherry-Garrard, taken from The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Worst Journey in the World and used under the public domain licence provided on the website, www.gutenberg.net. To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free distribution of electronic works, if you make use of this material you must agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project Gutenberg-tm Licence available online at www.gutenberg.org/license.

Most of our sources are published books, many of which are now out of print. Publication details are, wherever possible, provided in full in the Notes and References section. We were also able to study William’s original diaries and a number of his letters at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge. Although these are not normally on display they can be viewed under normal archive conditions by appointment. We are grateful to the archive and library staff there for their support and assistance. We are also grateful to Michael Tarver for his help with clarifying Williams’s role with the Board of Trade and to Christine Trickett for information about William’s time in Hambledon.

The copyright of this study, including all original text as well as a small number of modern photographs, belongs to George and Valerie Skinner. We have no objections to any of this material being freely used for private projects, research, education or any other non-commercial purposes (though an acknowledgement of the source is always encouraging!) and we welcome all efforts to understand and to promote awareness of the contribution of William Lashly to polar exploration. The contents of this report may not be reproduced or sold for profit and its reproduction in any format for commercial purposes should respect the laws of Copyright.

Most of the illustrations used in this study are either in the public domain or taken from books and other sources which are out of copyright, most in our own collection. The main exception to this is a small number of photographs from the Scott Polar Research Institute Freeze Frame Project. This outstanding educational website seeks to make historic photographs of Polar Regions and exploration more widely available and allows their use for non-commercial private and educational purposes. Clearly, these may not be reproduced from their website nor from our study except in accordance with the SPRI user licence which can be found at www.freezeframe.ac.uk/home/project.