Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
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John Weekes
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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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Admiral George Anson
Admiral. Born Staffordshire. 1740-4 circumnavigated the globe. Captured a Spanish galleon loaded with gold and silver (aren't they all?) and returned home a wealthy man. Died at home, Moor Par...
Francis Pocock
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Bartolomeu Dias
Portuguese nobleman who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa, in 1488, the first European known to do so since ancient times.
Christopher Newport
Seaman. Baptised at Harwich, Essex, on 29 December 1561. He was the captain of the Susan Constant, the largest of the three ships which carried settlers to found the Jamestown Settlement in 1607. I...
Robert Thomas
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
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King Charles III
One-time patron of the Goon Show Preservation Society. On the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II on 8 September 2022, Charles, the longest-serving British heir apparent, went from Prince of W...
Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, K.C.
Sixth son of King George III, created Duke of Sussex on 24 November 1801 but he had no legitimate issue so the title became extinct on his death. 1840 he gave Queen Victoria in marriage to Prince A...
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