William Scoresby was an English whaler, Arctic explorer, scientist and clergyman.
15 Facts About William Scoresby
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In 1811, William Scoresby's father resigned to him the command of the Resolution.
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On 29 June 1816, commanding the Esk on his fifteenth whaling voyage from Whitby, William Scoresby encountered grave problems when ice damaged his ship.
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In 1819, William Scoresby was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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William Scoresby's proposers were Robert Jameson, John Playfair and Sir G S Mackenzie.
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William Scoresby made two visits to America, in 1844 and 1848; on his return home from the latter visit he made observations on the height of Atlantic waves, the results of which were given to the British Association.
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In 1850, William Scoresby published a work urging the prosecution of the search for the Franklin expedition and giving the results of his own experience in Arctic navigation.
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William Scoresby began divinity studies at Queens' College, Cambridge, enrolling under the ten-year divinity statute and thus becoming a ten-year man, and became the curate of Bessingby, Yorkshire.
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William Scoresby published numerous works and papers of a religious character.
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From 1839 to 1846 William Scoresby was vicar of Bradford, Yorkshire, a "large, industrial, dissenting parish", described as an "ever-expanding, raucous, restless industrial conurbation", 15 miles across.
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William Scoresby addressed matters in hand, but succeeded only in generating contentious issues.
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William Scoresby believed in smaller catchment districts for churches; he clashed with Morgan over this issue.
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William Scoresby tried unsuccessfully to divide the parish in 1843.
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William Scoresby is buried in the churchyard at Upton and commemorated by a memorial which is decorated with mariner's compass and dividers, and a Bible.
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William Scoresby is memorialised on the family grave in Whitby.