Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
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Thomas Johnson
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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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George Kinnaird
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
William Reed
Role on the lost expedition: Royal marine on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
William Moorcroft
Pioneer veterinary surgeon, Asian explorer. Born Lancashire. First Englishman to qualify as a vet, in France, during a revolution. He set up in practice in Oxford Street, creating a horse hosp...
Person, Animals, Exploring, Medicine, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Tibet, Uzbekistan
John S. Peddie
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Robinson Crusoe
Titular character in the novel by Daniel Defoe published in 1719. See also Friday.
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Sir John Fowler
Civil engineer. Born in Wadsley, Sheffield. Fowler's was a long and eminent career, spanning most of the 19th century's railway expansion, and he was engineer, adviser or consultant to many British...
Sir Victor Horsley
Scientist and soldier. Born Victor Alexander Haden Horsley in 2 Tor Villas, Campden Hill, Kensington. As a physician, he developed many practical neurosurgical techniques and was the first person t...
Person, Armed Forces, Medicine, Politics & Administration, Egypt, France, Iraq
Oliver Heaviside
Born in Camden Town. Aged 12 the family could no longer afford to send him to school so he continued studying on his own. Thus he was largely self-taught, no secondary education or university. In ...
Sir Bernard Eckstein
Bernard Friedrich Eckstein was the son of Friedrich Gustav Jonathan Eckstein who became wealthy through gold mining activities in South Africa. Bernard lived at his father’s home in Park Lane, Lond...
Andrew Sweet
Deputy Chairman of the Highways Sewers and Public Works Committee, St Pancras Vestry in the late 1800s.
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