[117] Bushnan, on his return, was appointed to Franklin’s land journey, but died before starting, in 1825.
[118] All three were with Parry again in his third voyage.
[119] Mr Hooper was with Parry in his third voyage. Afterwards he for some time held the post of Secretary to Greenwich Hospital. He died in 1833.
[120] The Rev. G. Fisher was afterwards Head Master of Greenwich School from 1834 to 1863. He died in 1873.
[121] The instructions for Parry’s second expedition were signed by Sir George Cockburn, Sir Henry Hotham, and Sir George Clerk.
[122] Captain Lyon served on board the Albion at the battle of Algiers. He made an important journey from Tripoli to Mouzourk and wrote an excellent account of a very little known country. In 1825 he married Lucy, daughter of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, who died in 1826. In 1828 he published a journal of travels in Mexico. This accomplished and much beloved officer died in 1832.
[123] Henry Foster, son of the Rev. Henry Foster of Woodplumpton near Preston, was born in 1796. He was a midshipman in the Conway with Captain Basil Hall on the Pacific Station, an excellent school for young officers; then in the Griper with Clavering, Assistant Surveyor in Parry’s third voyage, and in the voyage of 1827, when he explored Hinlopen Strait. His magnetic work was published in the Philosophical Transactions of 1826, for which he received the Copley Medal of the Royal Society. In 1827 he became a Commander, and the Duke of Clarence gave him the command of a discovery ship owing to his exceptionally high scientific attainments. He commissioned the Chanticleer in 1827 with Horatio T. Austin as his first Lieutenant. Foster was chiefly engaged in pendulum observations, going as far south as the South Shetlands and surveying Staten Island. He was drowned in the Chagres river, when engaged in determining the meridian distance between Chagres and Panama on February 5th, 1833. The polar story would be incomplete without a notice of one of the most distinguished of Arctic scientific officers.
[124] Or rather connection. The step-mother of Flinders was Franklin’s aunt on the mother’s side.
[125] The Civil Lord of the Admiralty who signed Parry’s instructions.
[126] This is manifestly an error for 1845–46.