Sea captain. Looking for a trade route, the North-East Passage, a 3 ship expedition set sail, from Harwich, with Willoughby in charge and captain of the 'Bona Esperanza'. The Esperanza and the 'Bona Confidentia' were separated from the third ship, the 'Edward Bonaventure' captained by Stephen Borough and carrying the chief pilot, Richard Chancellor. The two lost ships got no further than an area near Murmansk where the bodies were found by Russian fishermen many months later. The precise cause of their demise is not known.
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Sir Hugh Willoughby
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David Leys
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
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Henry Sait
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
Canterbury Association
Formed to establish a colony in what is now the Canterbury region of New Zealand.
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Henry Wilks
Role on the lost expedition: Royal marine on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
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John Francis Sartorius
SW3, Old Church Street, 155
London County Council John F. Sartorius, c1775 - c1830, sporting painter, lived here, 1807 - 1812.
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War dead, WW1
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John Felton
Catholic lay priest and martyr. Father of Thomas Felton. A wealthy man, he lived at Bermondsey Abbey (the mansion built on the site) and supposedly fixed a copy of the papal bull excommunicating Qu...
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