Rae, John, Arctic voyager, born in Orkney, studied medicine in Edinburgh; first visited the Arctic regions as a surgeon; was engaged in three expeditions to these regions, of which he published reports; was made a LL.D. of Edinburgh University on the occasion of Carlyle's installation as Lord Rector (1813‒1893).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Radowitz, Joseph von * Raeburn, Sir Henry