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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.
John Gregory (6 September 1806—c. May 1848) was an English railway and naval engineer. He served as engineer aboard HMS Erebus during the 1845 Franklin Expedition, which sought to explore uncharted parts of what is now Nunavut, including the Northwest Passage, and make scientific observations.
Eric Crozier (baseball) (born 1978), American professional baseball player; Fitzroy Crozier (born 1936), Ceylon cricketer; Francis Crozier (1796–1848), Irish polar explorer; Frank Percy Crozier (1879–1937), British Army general; Frank R. Crozier (1883-1948), Australian war artist of the First World War; Georgie Crozier (born 1963 ...
James Fitzjames (27 July 1813 – c. May 1848) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer.. The illegitimate son of a man with ties to the Navy, Fitzjames distinguished himself in an ill-conceived expedition to establish a steamship line in Mesopotamia in the 1830s, and in combat during the Egyptian–Ottoman War and the First Opium War.
The building was sponsored by William Bucknell, the benefactor of Bucknell University, in memory of his late wife Margaret Crozer, the daughter of John Price Crozer. In addition to the $30,000 cost of the building, Bucknell also gave $25,000 for the cost of books and $10,000 for an endowment fund.
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 ...
Post-war Crozier appears to have made a living as a prolific painter of farm scenes and landscapes [6] 1928, 16–27 October: New Gallery, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne [7] 1940, August: War paintings and landscapes in aid of A.I.F. 22nd Battalion Comforts Fund in a show curated by Cecily Crozier (his niece) at Velasquez Gallery, Melbourne [8] [9]