23 Facts About John Franklin

Sir John Franklin was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer.

John Franklin was born in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, on, the ninth of twelve children born to Hannah Weekes and Willingham John Franklin.

John Franklin's father was a merchant descended from a line of country gentlemen while his mother was the daughter of a farmer.

John Franklin must have been affected by an obvious desire to better his social and economic position, given that his elder brothers struggled, sometimes successfully and sometimes not, to establish themselves in a wide variety of careers.

John Franklin did not join the vessel until the autumn of 1800.

John Franklin accompanied Captain Nathaniel Dance on the Earl Camden, frightening off Admiral Charles de Durand-Linois at the Battle of Pulo Aura in the South China Sea on.

In 1819, John Franklin was chosen to lead the Coppermine expedition overland from Hudson Bay to chart the north coast of Canada eastwards from the mouth of the Coppermine River.

In 1823, after returning to England, John Franklin married the poet Eleanor Anne Porden.

John Franklin erected a flagpole with buried letters for Parry.

John Franklin returned to winter at Fort Franklin on Great Bear Lake.

John Franklin reached Liverpool on the first of September 1827.

John Franklin was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land in 1837, but was removed from office in 1843.

John Franklin's wife worked to set up a university, which was eventually established in 1890, and a museum, credited to the Royal Society of Tasmania in 1843 under the leadership of her husband.

Lady John Franklin may have worked to have the Lieutenant-Governor's private botanical gardens, established in 1818, managed as a public resource.

Lady John Franklin established a glyptotheque and surrounding lands to support it near Hobart.

John Franklin was renamed Mathinna and was raised with their own daughter Eleanor, but she was abandoned in Tasmania when the Franklins returned to England in 1843.

Shortly after leaving his post as Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land, John Franklin revisited a cairn on Arthurs Seat, a small mountain just inside Port Phillip Bay in Victoria, Australia, that he had visited as a midshipman with Captain Matthew Flinders in April 1802.

John Franklin was given command on, and received official instructions on.

Ballads such as "Lady John Franklin's Lament", commemorating Lady John Franklin's search for her lost husband, became popular.

Many presumed John Franklin was still alive, and he was promoted to Rear-Admiral of the Blue in October 1852, an example of an unintentional posthumous promotion.

John Franklin was told both ships had become icebound, and the men had tried to reach safety on foot but had succumbed to cold, and some had resorted to cannibalism.

John Franklin believes both ships drifted southwards, with at least two crew remaining until the final destruction of their vessels.

Grenier wonders if what they saw was the funnel from the galley still smoking from a meal cooked that morning, before the last of John Franklin's men disappeared from history.