Reference WMO/294193
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Tablet: IN MEMORY/ OF/ CAPTAIN SIR JOHN FRANKLIN, R.N.,/ K.C.H._K.R._D.C.L.,/ THE ARCTIC NAVIGATOR AND EXPLORER./ BORN AT SPILSBY, APRIL 16TH 1786,/ DIED IN THE ARCTIC SEAS, JUNE 11TH 1847,/ WHILE IN COMMAND OF THE EXPEDITION/ WHICH FIRST DISCOVERED/ THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE./ "THEY FORGE THE LAST LINK WITH THEIR LIVES"./ ERECTED BY HIS WIDOW. Plaque: TO THE MEMORY OF/ ELEANOR ANNE PORDEN FIRST WIFE OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN/ A POETESS ENDEARED TO MANY BY HER GENTLE VIRTUES, AND FOR/ HER GIFTS OF INTELLECT ENROLLED A MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE;/ WHO SMITTEN BY MORTAL ILLNESS YET SPEEDED HER HUSBAND ON HIS/ SECOND ARCTIC EXPEDITION AND SURVIVING HIS DEPARTURE ONLY SIX DAYS/ DIED 1825 AGED 29 AND WAS BURIED AT ST. JOHN'S WOOD:/ AND OF THEIR ONLY CHILD ELEANOR ISABELLA, WIFE OF JOHN PHILIP GELL/ OF THE COUNTY OF DERBY {SOMETIME WARDEN OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE TASMANIA,/ VICAR OF NOTTING HILL, AND RECTOR OF BUXTED}, WHO DIED 1860 AGED 36/ AND WAS BURIED AT TREDUNNOC MONMOUTHSHIRE LEAVING SEVEN CHILDREN:/ AND OF JOHN FRANKLIN GELL M.A. ELDEST SON OF THE ABOVE/ WHO DIED AT MADRAS 1884 AGED 33:/ THIS TABLET IS DEDICATED IN COMMEMORATION/ OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S DEATH/ IN THE ARCTIC SEA BY HIS SURVIVING GRANDSONS
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