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Persoon · 1792-1871

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish geologist who served as director-general of the British Geological Survey from 1855 until his death in 1871. He is noted for investigating and describing the Silurian, Devonian and Permian systems.

Franklin, Sir John
Persoon · 1786-1847

Sir John Franklin was a British Royal Navy officer and Artic explorer. After serving in wars against Napoleonic France and the United States, he led two expeditions into the Canadian Arctic and through the islands of the Arctic Archipelago, in 1819 and 1825, and served as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land from 1839 to 1843. During his third and final expedition, an attempt to transverse the Northwest Passage in 1845, Franklin's ships became icebound off King William Island in what is now Nunavut, where he died in June 1847. The icebound ships were abandoned ten months later and the entire crew died, from causes such as starvation, hypothermia and scurvy

Lent, Norman T
Persoon · 1923-

Gatekeeper at Battersea Park

Newman, Rosalind
Persoon · 1923-

Helper at Children's Zoo at ZSL London Zoo

O'Connor, Margaret
Persoon · 1923-

Menagerie Helper at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo