11 Facts About Francis Crozier

Francis Crozier was born in Banbridge, County Down, in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland.

At the age of 13, Francis Crozier volunteered for the Royal Navy and joined HMS Hamadryad in June 1810.

Francis Crozier joined Captain William Parry's second Arctic expedition to traverse the Northwest Passage in 1821.

Francis Crozier returned to the North with Parry a second time in 1824, this time on Hecla.

Francis Crozier was promoted to lieutenant in 1826, and a year later, he once more joined Parry in his attempt to reach the North Pole; ultimately a futile endeavour.

Francis Crozier was elected to become a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1827, after conducting valuable astronomical and magnetic studies on his three expeditions with Parry.

Francis Crozier commanded Terror, and was appointed to the rank of captain in 1841.

Francis Crozier was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1843, in recognition of his outstanding work on magnetism.

In 1845, Francis Crozier joined Captain Sir John Franklin as captain of the Terror on the Franklin expedition to traverse the last unnavigated section of the Northwest Passage.

Francis Crozier himself was offered the command of the expedition, but, with "characteristic modesty", he deferred to Franklin.

Francis Crozier appears as a character and the primary narrator of the 2007 best-selling novel, The Terror by Dan Simmons, a fictionalized account of Franklin's lost expedition, as well as the 2018 television adaptation, where Crozier is portrayed by Jared Harris.