Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
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George Kinnaird
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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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Alexander Paterson
Role on the lost expedition: Royal marine on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Captain Robert Scott
Born Devonport. Royal Navy Antarctic explorer. With four companions, E.A. Wilson, H.R. Bowers, L.E.G. Oates, E. Evans, died returning from the South Pole, having been pipped at the post by Amundsen...
Henry Robertson Bowers
One of Scott's four companions who died with him, returning from the South Pole. Lieutenant in the Navy. Nicknamed Birdie due to his beak-like nose.
William Orren
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Mary Kingsley
Traveller and ethnologist. Born Islington as Mary Henrietta Kingsley. Only after the death of her parents could she fulfil her aspirations of travel. Her first book, "Travels in West Africa", publi...
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Jonathan Tyers
Born on Bermondsey Street. Initially worked in his family's wool, skin and fur business. In 1729 he acquired the lease for what would become Vauxhall Gardens and transformed it into a successful, f...
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