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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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++++ Three Essays On Taxation Of Income: With Remarks On The Late
Act Of Parliament On That Subject, On The National Debt, The Public
Funds, On The Probable Consequences Of The Law For The Sale Of The
Land Tax, And On The Present State Of Agriculture In Great Britain:
With A Scheme For The ... Benjamin Bell Printed for T. Cadell and
W. Davies, successors to Mr. Cadell, and D. Bremner, successor to
Mr. Elmsly, 1799 Finance, Public
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