Arctic explorer. Born at the Hall of Clestrain, near Stromness, Orkney Islands. He studied medicine and became doctor to the Hudson Bay Company. From 1846 to 1848 he undertook several expeditions to the Arctic, one of these involved the search for the missing ships of John Franklin's expedition. In 1864 he made a telegraph survey from Winnipeg over the Rockies. Died at his home, 4 Addison Gardens, Kensington.
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Founder and first governor of Australia. Born in the ward of Bread Street. Entered the Royal Navy 1753. In 1787 he led a fleet of 11 ships, with a complement of four companies of marines as well a...
Role on the lost expedition: Royal marine on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Above the entrance at the left: "1883". above the two large windows: "Wesleyan Schools". Now, 2021, residential. The plaques, which we h...
1990 - awarded the MBE for charitable services to the City of London, where she is associated with Portsoken Ward. Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
David Graham Foulkes was born on 27 March 1983 in Oldham, Lancashire, the son of Graham Foulkes and Janet Foulkes née Wrigley. Electoral registers from 2004 to 2005 show him listed at 5 North Nook,...
Chairman of the Committee for the 1901 Shoreditch Town Hall Extension.
Dog show promoter. Worked as a travelling salesman for Spratt's. His first dog show was run in 1878 at the request of the French breeders at the Paris Exhibition. There followed some more on beh...
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