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Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield KCB FRS FRGS (27 March 1820 – 4 September 1894) was a Royal Navy officer who led one of the searches for the missing Arctic explorer John Franklin during the 1850s.
Edward Augustus Inglefield was born in 1820 at Cheltenham into a family of distinguished naval stock. At the age of twelve, he entered the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth, joining the Royal Navy two years later and serving in South America, North Africa and the West Indies.
Edward Augustus Inglefield was a naval officer and polar explorer involved in the search for the ships and crew of Sir John Franklin’s 1845 British Northwest Passage Expedition.
Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield. British admiral. Learn about this topic in these articles: exploration of Ellesmere Island. In Ellesmere Island. …was named in 1852 by Sir Edward A. Inglefield’s Expedition (which navigated the coast in the Isabel) for Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere. Read More.
Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield was born on the 27 March 1820 and was educated at Royal Naval College in Portsmouth. At the age of 25, he was promoted to the post of Commander. In 1852 he volunteered his services in the search for Sir John Franklin who went missing with his crew during their search for the North West Passage.
Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield. Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry. Inglefield entered the Navy at the age of fifteen. In 1852, he led an expedition to search for Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, who had disappeared while attempting to navigate a section of the Northwest Passage.
Upon arrival at Beechey Island, Inglefield discovered that all four of Belcher's ships and Investigator had been abandoned and that their crews were assembled on board North Star, the only remaining vessel.
