Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
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Alexander McDonald
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John Franklin statue
{On the front of the plinth:} To the great arctic navigator and his brave co...
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Robert Hopcroft
Role on the lost expedition: Royal marine on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
John Hanning Speke
Explorer. Born Devon. The first European, while on an expedition with Richard Burton to East Africa in 1858, to discover Lake Victoria. On a subsequent journey with James Grant in 1862, he confirme...
Captain Matthew Flinders
Explorer and navigator of the Australian seas. Born in Donington, Lincolnshire. Invented the Flinders Bar, a device for counteracting the vertical component of a ship's magnetic field, and gave Aus...
William Borough
Explorer and naval administrator. Born Devon, the younger brother of Stephen.
Robert O. Sargent
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
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Samuel Phelps
Actor/manager, born in Devonport. In his early working life he worked on the York theatre circuit and acted in numerous tragic roles. In 1837 played Shylock at the Haymarket. He then had a short r...
Tyburn Stone
W2, Edgware Road, Hilton London Metropole hotel
We could not read most of the inscription on the stone but found it at San Francisco Call, Volume 105, Number 173, 22 May 1909 at cdnc. ...