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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.
Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier: Captain: Banbridge, Down: 49 Edward Little: First Lieutenant (Commander) Hornsey, Middx. 33 George Henry Hodgson: Second Lieutenant London 28 John Irving: Third Lieutenant Edinburgh: 30 Thomas Blanky: Ice-Master: Whitby, Yorkshire: 44 Frederick John Hornby: First Mate: 26 Robert Thomas: Second Mate Gillies ...
Frank Crozier may refer to: Frank R. Crozier (1883–1948), Australian war artist; Frank Percy Crozier (1879–1937), British military officer
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.
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]
Sir James Clark Ross DCL FRS FLS FRAS (15 April 1800 – 3 April 1862) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer of both the northern and southern polar regions. In the Arctic, he participated in two expeditions led by his uncle, John Ross, and in four led by William Edward Parry: in the Antarctic, he led his his own expedition from 1839 to 1843.
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. [1] His older sister was Henrietta Mildred Hodgson, wife of Oswald Smith and great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II. [2]
HMS Erebus was a Hecla-class bomb vessel constructed by the Royal Navy in Pembroke dockyard, Wales, in 1826.The vessel was the second in the Royal Navy named after Erebus, the personification of darkness in Greek mythology.