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Francis Crozier was born in Banbridge, County Down, in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland. He was the eleventh of thirteen children, and the fifth son of solicitor George Crozier, who named him after his friend Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Earl of Moira. Crozier attended school locally in Banbridge, with his brothers William and Thomas ...
Frank Crozier may refer to: Frank R. Crozier (1883–1948), Australian war artist; Frank Percy Crozier (1879–1937), British military officer
This Pestilence is a literary version of the real life Captain Francis Crozier, R.N., an Ulsterman who was second in command in Franklin's lost expedition to the Northwest Passage and later disappeared after taking command of the expedition from the deceased Franklin. In 1845, F.R. Crozier was appointed doctor and chief science officer for an ...
Catharine Crozier was born in Hobart, Oklahoma to the Rev. Walter Stuart Crozier and Alice Condit Crozier. As a child, she studied violin, piano, and organ, and made her first public appearance on the piano at age six. [2] She studied at Central High in Pueblo, Colorado from 1927 until 1931. [3]
William Crozier (February 19, 1855 – November 11, 1942) was a career United States Army officer in the Ordnance Corps and the 11th Chief of Ordnance. Early life [ edit ]
Crozier was born in Cadiz, Ohio on October 13, 1827, the son of John Thomas Crozier (1790–1867) and Jane Ann (Ginn) Crozier (1801–1839). [1] [a] He attended the public schools and Cadiz Academy, then began to study law with an attorney in Carrollton, Ohio. [1] He was admitted to the bar in 1848, and began to practice in Carrollton. [1]
Crozier wrote the libretto for Ruth, a 1956 sacred opera by Lennox Berkeley, after the Old Testament Book of Ruth. [10] He also worked closely with Arthur Bliss, contributing the words for his Cradle Song for a Newborn Child (1964) [11] as well as helping him with the proofs and advising on the content of his biography As I Remember (1970). [12]
Crozier Island is named after the Irish-born, British naval officer Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier, second-in-command (and commander after Franklin's death) of John Franklin's ill-fated Naval Northwest Passage Expedition, 1845–1848, by Elisha Kent Kane between 1854 and 1855 during his second Grinnell Expedition, after it was sighted by Hans ...