Personnel Profile
Robert McClure
Naval officer and Arctic explorer
Robert McClure served in a role connected with the Royal Navy during nineteenth century. This career belongs to the broader professional and institutional history of Britain’s maritime world.
He is associated with arctic exploration and association with the northwest passage. This formed part of the way maritime service operated through discipline, knowledge, administration, exploration, or specialist expertise.
He is significant because this biography helps widen the personnel record beyond the most familiar names. Robert McClure belongs to the broader human history of British naval and maritime service.