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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
He first compiled a crossword to amuse his wife, Marjorie, who remained much better at solving them than her husband. [8] Soon after, he was introduced by Jack White to Irish Times editor Bertie Smyllie at the paper's 1942 Christmas party in a Dublin pub, where he claimed that compiling crosswords was a longstanding hobby and persuaded Smyllie ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Crozier was born in Elsternwick, on 21 July 1911 to Australian-born parents Robert Henry Crozier (1884–1939), a mining engineer, and Elsa McGillivray (1881–1957). She had two brothers, Laurie and Brian, two and five years her junior.
Born in Oxford, Plummer was the son of William Edward Plummer (1849–1928) [2] [3] [4] and nephew of the distinguished astronomer John Isaac Plummer (1845-1925). He gained his education at St. Edward's School and then Hertford College at Oxford University.