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    George Francis Lyon FRS (23 January 1796 – 8 October 1832) was an English naval officer and explorer of Africa and the Arctic. While not having a particularly...
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  • Admiral George Francis Lyon (1795–1832), Arctic and African explorer George Ella Lyon (born 1949), American author from Kentucky G. B. Lyon-Fellowes...
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    thirteen children, and the fifth son of solicitor George Crozier, who named him after his friend Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Earl of Moira. Crozier attended...
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    was an easy and cheap meal. An English naval officer and explorer, George Francis Lyon, wrote in 1826 about eating dried beef in a chili sauce with Rancheros...
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    Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th and 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, KG, KT, GCVO, TD (14 March 1855 – 7 November 1944), styled as Lord Glamis from...
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    Franklin's death the next year, Fitzjames became second-in-command to Captain Francis Crozier of HMS Terror. The ships were abandoned in April 1848 and the survivors...
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    Franklin, had died. The survivors, now led by Franklin's second-in-command, Francis Crozier, and Erebus's captain, James Fitzjames, set out for the Canadian...
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    in overall command of the expedition, and Terror was again commanded by Francis Crozier. The expedition was ordered to gather magnetic data in the Canadian...
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  • Cheryle Lyon was born February 8, 1948, in Orlando, Florida, to Francis Stephen "Frank" Lyon and Berylene Elisabeth Owen. Lynda and her sister Denyce (born...
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    of Charles III. Claude Lyon-Bowes was born in Redbourn, Hertfordshire. He was the second surviving son of Thomas George Lyon-Bowes, Lord Glamis (son...
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    of HMS Erebus, and Franklin was named the expedition commander. Captain Francis Crozier, who had commanded HMS Terror during the Ross expedition of 1841–1844...
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    The Right Honourable the Lord Lyon King of Arms, the head of Lyon Court, is the most junior of the Great Officers of State in Scotland and is the Scottish...
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    The wedding of Prince Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI) and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother) took place on...
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    everyday life, and those of George Francis Lyon were widely read after they were both published in 1824. Captain George Comer's Inuk wife Shoofly, known...
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    participated in the bombardment of Fort McHenry; the latter attack inspired Francis Scott Key to write the poem that eventually became known as "The Star-Spangled...
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    commanding HMS Fury accompanied by HMS Hecla under George Francis Lyon. Others with him were George Fisher, scientist and chaplain, William Hooper, purser...
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  • (23 km) from Clapperton Island. The cape was named in honor of Captain George Francis Lyon, R.N. by John Franklin. The topography presents with gently swelling...
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    such as through intermarrying. In 1824, HMS Griper, under Captain George Francis Lyon, anchored off Cape Pembroke on Coats Island in Hudson Bay. The whalers...
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    beyond north of Mexico City. English naval officer and explorer, George Francis Lyon, explained that while most Rancheros had a light, active and sinewy...
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    University of Alberta Press, USA, 2007, ISBN 0-88864-482-5 Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy...
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    carried four officers – John Ross, James Clark Ross, William Thom, surgeon George McDiarmid – and 19 men. The goal was Prince Regent Inlet at the west end...
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    Government declined. Lady Franklin organized a private expedition under Francis Leopold McClintock, who, in 1859, located the only written account of the...
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    FitzGerald (1798 - September 1826), married on 5 September 1825 Capt. George Francis Lyon (died 8 October 1832). There are Lord Edward Streets named in his...
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    private school in Greenwich. Barrow taught mathematics to the son of Sir George Leonard Staunton; through Staunton's interest, he was attached on the first...
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    location):   Lônes et coteaux   Lyon-Centre (Lyon-Centre)   Lyon-Est (Lyon-East)   Lyon-Nord (Lyon-North)   Lyon-Ouest   Lyon-Sud   Lyon-Sud-Est   Ouest   Plateau...
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    table forks that had been the property of Le Vesconte. When in March 1859 Francis McClintock and his expedition found a group of Inuit at Cape Victoria they...
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    and natural history. This was also where he served as midshipman with Francis Crozier, who would later become his close friend and second-in-command...
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  • River Niger and the location of Timbuktu. Ritchie chose subordinate George Francis Lyon to accompany him. The expedition was underfunded and lacked necessary...
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    North Pole, all under Lieutenant William Edward Parry or Commander George Francis Lyon, and spent many winters iced in without serious damage. On the first...
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    Sir Francis Leopold McClintock KCB FRS (8 July 1819 – 17 November 1907) was an Irish explorer in the British Royal Navy, known for his discoveries in...
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