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Alexander McDonald

Categories: Exploring, Tragedy

Alexander McDonald

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

Robert Hopcroft

Role on the lost expedition: Royal marine on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.

Person, Exploring, Tragedy

1 memorial
John Hanning Speke

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...

Person, Exploring, Africa

1 memorial
Captain Matthew Flinders

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...

Person, Exploring, Australia

2 memorials
William Borough

William Borough

Explorer and  naval administrator. Born Devon, the younger brother of Stephen.

Person, Exploring

1 memorial
Robert O. Sargent

Robert O. Sargent

Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.

Person, Exploring, Tragedy

1 memorial

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Samuel Phelps

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...

Person, Education, Music / songs, Theatre

2 memorials
Tyburn Stone

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. ...

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