John Irving (Royal Navy officer)
John Irving | |
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Irving c. 1845 | |
| Born | February 8, 1815 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Disappeared | April 25, 1848 (aged 33) Victory Point, King William Island, Nunavut, Canada |
| Status | Declared dead in absentia 3 March 1854; body allegedly discovered 1879 |
| Died | King William Island, Nunavut, Canada |
| Burial place | Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Occupation | Royal Navy officer |
| Known for | Franklin's lost expedition |
John Irving (8 February 1815 – c. 1848) was a British officer in the Royal Navy and polar explorer. He served under Francis Crozier as Third Lieutenant on the ship HMS Terror during the 1845 Franklin Expedition which sought to discover and chart as-yet unexplored parts of the Canadian Arctic, including the Northwest Passage, and make scientific observations. All personnel of the expedition, including Irving, perished in and around King William Island in what is now Nunavut, Canada. Irving is one of the few men whose remains have been supposedly identified and re-interred in Britain.