John Franklin

John Franklin

male, deceased (1847)
explorer, officer, knight, British, Explorer of Australia, Explorer of the Arctic…Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Royal Navy, RoyalGeographicalSociety
Rear Admiral Sir John Franklin FRGS (April 15, 1786 - June 11, 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer who mapped almost two...
Roderick Murchison

Roderick Murchison

male, deceased (1871)
Old Dunelmian, FRS, buried at Brompton Cemetery, Baronet in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, durham, silurian…Royal Society of Edinburgh, Geological Society of London, President of the Royal Geographical Society, Fellow of the Royal Society, RoyalGeographicalSociety
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison KCB FRS (19 February, 1792 - 22 October, 1871), was an influential Scottish geologist who first described and...
Clements Markham

Clements Markham

male, deceased (1916)
Fellow of the Royal Society, British, ceylon, Malaria, northwest passage, Portuguese-English translator…Royal Navy, Royal Society, RoyalGeographicalSociety, President of the Royal Geographical Society
Sir Clements Robert Markham KCB FRS (20 July 1830 - 30 January 1916) was a British explorer, author and geographer. As President of the Royal...
Wilfred Thesiger

Wilfred Thesiger

male, deceased (2003)
From Addis Ababa, Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford, Order of the British Empire, Explorer of Asia, Old Etonian, addis ababa…RoyalGeographicalSociety
Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger, KBE, DSO, (3 June, 1910 - August 24, 2003) was a British explorer and travel writer born in Addis Ababa, the capital...
Baden Powell

Baden Powell

male, deceased (1860)
Christian, Savilian chair of geometry, RoyalGeographicalSociety, FRGS, Royal Society, Master of Arts…Fellow of the Royal Society
Baden Powell, MA, FRS, FRGS (22 August 1796 - 11 June 1860) was an English mathematician: He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University...
George Everest

George Everest

male, deceased (1866)
Geographer, Fellow of the Royal Society, mount everest, mathematics, welsh, Surveyor…Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Royal Military Academy, RoyalGeographicalSociety
Colonel Sir George Everest (4 July, 1790 - 1 December, 1866) was a Welsh surveyor, geographer and Surveyor-General of India from 1830 to 1843. He...
Leonard Darwin

Leonard Darwin

male, deceased (1943)
Royal Engineers officer, Darwin-Wedgwood family, English, Darwin — Wedgwood family, UK Liberal Unionist politician, member of the United Kingdom Parliament…President of the Royal Geographical Society, RoyalGeographicalSociety
Major Leonard Darwin (15 January 1850 - 26 March 1943), a son of the English naturalist Charles Darwin, was variously a soldier, politician,...
James Wordie

James Wordie

male, deceased (1962)
Geologist, Explorer of Antarctica, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Scottish, University of Glasgow, oceanography…President of the Royal Geographical Society, RoyalGeographicalSociety
Sir James Mann Wordie, CBE (26 April, 1889 – 16 January, 1962) was a Scottish polar explorer and geologist. Wordie was born at Partick, Glasgow, in...