John franklin northwest passage
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The Ages of
Exploration
Introduction
In the late 19th century, there were several British expeditions launched to search for the Northwest Passage, a waterway through Canada believed to have connected the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. One of the most well known of those expeditions was in 1845, led by Sir John Franklin. Although Franklin did not discover the Northwest Passage before his disappearance, he was one of the first to map the northern coastlines of Canada in the Arctic.
Biography
Early Life
John Franklin (later known as Sir John Franklin) was born on April 16, 1786, in Spilsby, England. He grew up in a large family, and was the ninth child of 12 born to Willingham Franklin and his wife Hannah. Franklin began his education at a young age. He first attended a preparatory school at St. Ives in Huntingdonshire. Then, at the age of 12, he attended Louth Grammar School. As a young man, Franklin had a great interest in sea travel and exploration, although his father did not approve of that lifestyle. Yet, Franklin was allowed to accompany a merchant s
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John Franklin Biography and Facts
John Franklin (1786 – 1847) was a famous British Royal Navy officer that remains remembered today for not only his long and distinguished military career but also as an artic explorer who undergo 4 difficult missions that served as an important markers in the history of so called “Heroic Polar Exploration”. While he managed to discover previously unseen areas, his Artic exploits are today remembered not because of their success, but because of the hardships he encounter on them that were highly publicized in North America and Europe.
Franklin was born on 16 April 1786 in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, as the son of the Willingham Franklin and his wife Hannah Weekes. He was enchanted with sea from very young age, which prompted him to push his father into enabling him spot on ship deck. After his first tour on a merchant ship, he was accepted as a young deckhand on the HMS Polyphemus at the age of 14. During his early life as a midshipman, he managed to be part of several battles at sea including Battle of Copenhagen, Battle of Trafalgar, Battle of Ne
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FRANKLIN, Sir JOHN, naval officer, explorer, colonial governor, and author; b. 16 April 1786 in Spilsby, England, son of Willingham Franklin and Hannah Weeks; m. first 19 Aug. 1823 Eleanor Anne Porden (d. 1825) in London, England, and they had one daughter; m. secondly 5 Nov. 1828 Jane Griffin* in Stanmore (London), England; they had no children; d. 11 June 1847, probably on board hms Erebus near King William Island (Nt).
John Franklin, the ninth child and youngest son in a family of twelve, was born over his father’s shop in the market town of Spilsby. The Franklins had formerly been landowning yeoman farmers, but John Franklin’s great-grandfather and grandfather were so improvident that his father, Willingham Franklin, had gone into trade – then socially frowned upon – as the only way to restore the family’s fortunes. Willingham met with enough success as a dry-goods and fine-cloth merchant that he was able to purchase a small country estate near the village of Mavis Enderby, thus providing his childr
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