John Shaw Torrington (1825 – 1 January 1846) was a Royal Navy stoker. He was part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition to chart unexplored areas of what is...
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Torrington is the most populated municipality and largest city in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States, and the Northwest Hills Planning Region...
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writer John Torrington, English explorer and Royal Navy stoker George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, British naval officer and statesman Torrington, New...
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Franklin's lost expedition (redirect from Sir John Franklin Arctic expedition)
there. They started with John Torrington, the first crew member to die.[self-published source] After completing Torrington's autopsy and exhuming and...
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Great Torrington (often abbreviated to Torrington, though the villages of Little Torrington and Black Torrington are situated in the same region) is a...
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expedition's first year. He was buried on Beechey Island, next to John Torrington, who had become the expedition's first fatality on New Year's Day of...
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months into the expedition, and was buried on Beechey Island with John Torrington and John Hartnell. He died last, and his corpse was in the worst condition...
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ships spent the first winter at Beechey Island, where three men (John Torrington, John Hartnell, and William Braine) died and were buried. The ships were...
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Litchfield County, Connecticut (redirect from Torrington, CT μSA)
is the state's largest county by area. Litchfield County comprises the Torrington, CT, Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the New York–Newark...
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of Franklin's crewmen – Petty Officer John Torrington, Royal Marine Private William Braine, and Able Seaman John Hartnell – but no written record nor indication...
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Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic in 1845, under the command of Sir John Franklin and using the ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. The following is...
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in 1984 and 1986 of the frozen bodies of Petty Officer John Torrington, Able-bodied Seaman John Hartnell and Royal Marine William Braine, on Beechey Island...
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Northwest Passage (section John Rae)
tissue and bone from the frozen bodies of three seamen, John Torrington, William Braine and John Hartnell, exhumed from the permafrost of Beechey Island...
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Chris Selwood Chief Finance Officer: Tony Patterson Company Secretary: John Torrington Football Secretary: Jonny Irwin Board of Directors: Chris Selwood,...
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Viscount Torrington is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. The Peerage was created in 1721 for the statesman Sir George Byng, 1st Baronet, along with...
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Franklin's lost expedition, finds the graves of crew members John Torrington, William Braine and John Hartnell on Beechey Island 1851: William Kennedy leads...
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Torrington was a county constituency centred on the town of Torrington in Devon. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the...
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Little Torrington is a village and a civil parish near Great Torrington, in the Torridge district, north Devon, England. In 2001 the population of the...
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refer to: Admiral John Byng (1704–1757), British admiral, shot by sentence of a court martial Admiral George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington (1668–1733), the...
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Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist and academic (b. 1743) 1846 – John Torrington, English sailor and explorer (b. 1825) 1853 – Gregory Blaxland, Australian...
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Deere & Company, doing business as John Deere (/ˈdʒɒnˈdɪər/), is an American corporation that manufactures agricultural machinery, heavy equipment, forestry...
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The Torrington Tornadoes were a minor league baseball team based in Torrington, Connecticut. Torrington played the 1896 season as members of the Independent...
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Admiral Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington (c. 1648 – 13 April 1716) was an Anglo-Welsh Royal Navy officer, peer and politician. Dismissed by King...
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Torrington High School is the lone public high school in the city of Torrington, Connecticut, United States. The current high school building opened in...
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graves of Petty Officer John Torrington, Royal Marine Private William Braine, and Able Seaman John Hartnell, three members of Sir John Franklin's crew who...
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and year of death and the graves were of Petty Officer John Torrington, Able-bodied Seaman John Hartnell and Royal Marine William Braine. Beattie had obtained...
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The Torrington Company was a firm that developed in Torrington, Connecticut, originally called the Excelsior Needle Company. It was formed in 1866 around...
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father, Louis Speziale, was a former member of the Torrington City Council. He graduated from Torrington High School in 1940 and received a B.A. in economics...
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A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story (category Torrington, Connecticut)
made-for-television drama film based on the 1985 ruling Thurman v. City of Torrington. The film stars Nancy McKeon as Tracey; Dale Midkiff as Buck; and Bruce...
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Torrington Square is a square in Bloomsbury, owned by the University of London, located in central London, England. Today it is a square in name only,...
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