John Irving (1815 1847?) was a lieutenant on board H.M.S. Terror
during Sir John Franklin's fateful expedition, and had the
melancholy distinction of being the first identifiable body to be
found by a subsequent search party - that of the US officer
Frederick Schwatka - in 1878. Irving was identified by a silver
medal, won for mathematics in 1830. His remains were brought back
to Britain and reburied in his home town, Edinburgh, and at the
request of Irving's father this 'memorial sketch', including some
of the young lieutenant's letters to his family, was published in
1881 by Benjamin Bell (1810 83), great-grandfather of the surgeon
Joseph Bell, Conan Doyle's model for Sherlock Holmes. As well as
the touching memoir, the work includes details of the various
search and rescue attempts, and a reconstructed chronology by
Clements Markham of the Franklin expedition up to its disastrous
end."
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