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Charles Frederick Des Voeux
Charles Frederick Des Voeux (c. 1825—after 28 May 1847) was an Irish officer in the British Royal Navy. He served as mate aboard HMS ''Erebus'' during the 1845 Franklin Expedition which sought to chart the Canadian Arctic, including the Northwest Passage, and make scientific observations. All personnel of the expedition, including Des Voeux, died in what is now Nunavut, Canada in uncertain circumstances. He and Graham Gore signed and deposited the Victory Point Record, one of the only official communications of the expedition yet found. Life and career Family Charles Frederick Des Voeux was the son of Reverend Henry Des Voeux and Frances Dalrymple and a member of the Des Voeux family. He was the brother of cricketer Henry Des Voeux, half-brother of colonial administrator William Des Voeux, and grandson of Sir Charles Des Voeux, 1st Baronet. His great-grandfather Anthony Vinchon de Bacquencourt moved from France to Ireland after renouncing his Catholic faith in favour of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by Kingdom of England, English and Kingdom of Scotland, Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against Kingdom of France, France. The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the early 16th century; the oldest of the British Armed Forces, UK's armed services, it is consequently known as the Senior Service. From the middle decades of the 17th century, and through the 18th century, the Royal Navy vied with the Dutch Navy and later with the French Navy for maritime supremacy. From the mid 18th century, it was the world's most powerful navy until the World War II, Second World War. The Royal Navy played a key part in establishing and defending the British Empire, and four Imperial fortress colonies and a string of imperial bases and coaling stations secured the Royal Navy's ability to assert naval superiority ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Grey
Admiral The Hon. Sir Frederick William Grey GCB (23 August 1805 – 2 May 1878) was a Royal Navy officer. As a captain he saw action in the First Opium War and was deployed as principal agent of transports during the Crimean War. He became First Naval Lord in the Second Palmerston ministry in June 1861 and subsequently published a pamphlet ''Admiralty Administration, 1861–1866'' describing his reforms which included, inter alia, the notion that all senior naval promotions and appointments should be non-political and should be discussed and agreed by the Naval Members of the Admiralty Board on a collective basis before recommendations were made to the First Lord of the Admiralty. Early career Born the son of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (who served as Prime Minister in the 1830s), and Mary Elizabeth Ponsonby (daughter of William Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby), Grey joined the Royal Navy in January 1819. He initially joined the fifth-rate HMS ''Naiad'' in the Mediterranean Fle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Henry Hodgson
George Henry Hodgson (25 January 1817–) was an English Royal Navy officer and polar explorer. He fought in the First Opium War (1839-1842) where he distinguished himself in combat. He later served under Captain Francis Crozier as Second Lieutenant aboard HMS ''Terror'' on the 1845 Franklin Expedition, which sought to chart unexplored areas of the Canadian Arctic, find the Northwest Passage, and carry out scientific observations. All personnel of the expedition, including Hodgson, perished in what is now Nunavut, Canada. Hodgson is the great-great-uncle of Queen Elizabeth II through her mother. Life and naval career Early life George Henry Hodgson was born 25 January 1817 in London, England, to Rector and future Dean of Carlisle Robert Hogdson and his wife Mary Tucker. His older sister was Henrietta Mildred Hodgson, wife of Oswald Smith and great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II. Through his father, he was cousins to eminent naturalist Brian Houghton Hod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Irving (Royal Navy Officer)
John Irving (8 February 1815 – c. 1848) was a British officer in the Royal Navy and polar explorer. He served under Francis Crozier as Third Lieutenant on the ship HMS ''Terror'' during the 1845 Franklin Expedition which sought to discover and chart as-of-yet unexplored parts of the Canadian Arctic, including the Northwest Passage, and make scientific observations. All personnel of the expedition, including Irving, perished in and around King William Island in what is now Nunavut, Canada. Irving is one of the few men whose remains have been supposedly identified and re-interred in Britain. Early life John Irving was born on Princes Street in Edinburgh, Scotland on 8 February 1815, the fourth son of John Irving, a lawyer who was a member of the Society of Writers to the Signet and childhood friend of Sir Walter Scott, and Agnes Hay, daughter of Colonel Lewis Hay, a noted engineering officer who perished in the 1799 Anglo-Russian Invasion of Holland. John Irving attended sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Walter Fairholme
James Walter Fairholme (10 January 1821 – after 24 May 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and polar explorer who in 1845 served under Sir John Franklin on the during the Franklin expedition to discover the Northwest Passage, which ended with the loss of all 129 crewmen in mysterious circumstances. He was born in Kinnoull in Perth, Scotland in 1821, one of five children of the Hon. Caroline Elisabeth ''née'' Forbes (born 1799) and George Fairholme (1789–1846), a land owner, banker, traveller, naturalist and scriptural geologist. His siblings included George Knight Erskine Fairholme (1822–1889) and Elizabeth Marjory Fairholme. Through his mother he was a grandson of Walter Forbes, 18th Lord Forbes. Naval career Fairholme joined the Royal Navy on 12 March 1834 aged 13 as a First-class Volunteer on board the ''Gannet'' under Captain John Balfour Maxwell, with whom, and with Commodore Sir John Strutt Peyton, of the ''Madagascar'', he served on the West India s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hastings (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral Sir Thomas Hastings, KCB DL (25 Jan 1786 – 3 January 1870) was a British artist, innovator, instructor, and distinguished officer of the Royal Navy. He was renowned as an expert gunner, and some believe him to be the first officer to take a truly scientific approach to gunnery. Biography Hastings was born on 25 Jan 1786, the third son (and fifth child) of Rev. James Hastings (later Rector of Martley, Worcestershire) and Elizabeth (''née'' Paget). He was brother to Sir Charles Hastings (founder of the British Medical Association). Another brother, Francis Decimus Hastings (1796–1869), also served in the Royal Navy from the age of twelve, reaching the rank of Rear-Admiral in 1859 having been obliged to relinquish active service because of his wounds, hardships and length of service. While a lieutenant in 1812, he painted ''Storm at Sea''. On 29 April 1812, Hastings participated in an attack led by Captain Thomas Ussher on French privateers of Málaga, in wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portsmouth
Portsmouth ( ) is a port and city status in the United Kingdom, city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. The city of Portsmouth has been a Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority since 1 April 1997 and is administered by Portsmouth City Council. Portsmouth is the most densely populated city in the United Kingdom, with a population last recorded at 208,100. Portsmouth is located south-west of London and south-east of Southampton. Portsmouth is mostly located on Portsea Island; the only English city not on the mainland of Great Britain. Portsea Island has the third highest population in the British Isles after the islands of Great Britain and Ireland. Portsmouth also forms part of the regional South Hampshire, South Hampshire conurbation, which includes the city of Southampton and the boroughs of Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport, Havant and Waterlooville. Portsmouth is one of the world's best known ports, its history can be traced to Roman Britain, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Boyne (1810)
HMS ''Boyne'' was a 98-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Nicholas Diddams at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 3 July 1810 at Portsmouth. On 12 February 1814 she took part with HMS ''Caledonia'' in a hot action against the French line-of-battle ship ''Romulus'' off Toulon; the French 74 managed to escape to Toulon by sailing close to the coast to avoid being surrounded. With the 1817 changes to the rating system ''Boyne'' was rerated as a 104-gun first rate ship. On 23 November 1824, ''Boyne'' was driven ashore at Portsmouth during a gale. In 1826 she was cut down (razeed) to become a two-deck, 76-gun third-rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker). Years of experience proved that the third ... ship of the line. On 1 December 1834 she was renamed HMS '' Excellent'' and becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Fitzjames
James Fitzjames (27 July 1813 – disappeared 26 April 1848) was a British Royal Navy officer who participated in two major exploratory expeditions, the Euphrates Expedition and the Franklin's lost expedition, Franklin Expedition. Early life He was of illegitimate birth, and during his life and after, his friends and relatives took great pains to conceal his origins. Though biographer William Battersby initially believed Fitzjames was born on in Rio de Janeiro in what was then Colonial Brazil, he later issued a correction on his website stating Fitzjames was more likely born in Devon, England, as he stated on his naval entry papers. Fitzjames was baptised on at St Marylebone Parish Church in London. The names given by the people who posed as his parents, "James Fitzjames" and "Ann Fitzjames," are presumed to be false. Illegitimate birth The identification of his true family has been a mystery. In different sources it has been suggested that he was a Child abandonm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Cornwallis (1813)
HMS ''Cornwallis'' was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 May 1813 at Bombay. She was built of teak. The capture of ''Java'' by delayed the completion of ''Cornwallis'' as ''Java'' had been bringing her copper sheathing from England. ''Cornwallis'' arrived at Deal, Kent on 31 May 1814, having escorted several East Indiamen (including , , and ), and two whalers (including ). On 27 April 1815, ''Cornwallis'' engaged the American sloop , which had mistaken ''Cornwallis'' for a merchant ship. Heavily outgunned, ''Hornet'' was forced to retreat. The crew threw boats, guns and other equipment overboard in order to escape.James (1837), Vol.6, p.387. After China's defeat in the First Opium War, representatives from the British and Qing Empires negotiated a peace treaty aboard ''Cornwallis'' in Nanjing. On 29 August 1842, British representative Sir Henry Pottinger and Qing representatives, Qiying, Yilibu and Niujian, signed the Treaty of Nanki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough
Field Marshal Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, (3 November 1779 – 2 March 1869) was an Irish officer of the British Army. After serving as a junior officer at the seizure of the Cape of Good Hope during the French Revolutionary Wars, Gough commanded the 2nd Battalion of the 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot during the Peninsular War. After serving as commander-in-chief of the British forces in China during the First Opium War, he became Commander-in-Chief, India and led the British forces in action against the Marathas defeating them decisively at the conclusion of the Gwalior Campaign and then commanded the troops that defeated the Sikhs during both the First Anglo-Sikh War and the Second Anglo-Sikh War. Early career Born the son of Lieutenant Colonel George Gough and Letitia Gough (née Bunbury) of Lisnavagh, Gough was commissioned into the Limerick Militia on 7 August 1793. He transferred to a locally raised regiment on 7 August 1794 and, having been promo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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