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- Sir Francis Leopold McClintock (born July 8, 1819, Dundalk, County Louth, Ire.—died Nov. 17, 1907, London, Eng.) was a British naval officer and explorer who discovered the tragic fate of the British explorer Sir John Franklin and his 1845 expedition to the North American Arctic.
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McClintock, Sir Francis Leopold (1819–1907), Royal Naval officer and Arctic explorer, was born 8 July 1819 at 1 Seatown Place, Dundalk, Co. Louth, eldest surviving son of Henry McClintock, collector of customs in Dundalk and formerly an officer in the 3rd Dragoon Guards, and his wife Elizabeth Melesina, daughter of the Ven. George Fleury, DD ...
Francis Leopold McClintock, the ‘Arctic Fox’. The last few years have seen a sudden resurgence of interest in the history of polar exploration, focused mainly on the major Antarctic expeditions of the early twentieth-century ‘heroic period’.
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 the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
Jul 8, 2022 · Francis Leopold McClintock, a British naval officer, was born July 8, 1819. McClintock took part in four separate voyages to the Arctic between 1848 and 1859 in search of John Franklin’s lost Arctic expedition, not heard from since 1845.
May 14, 2018 · Sir Francis Leopold McClintock (1819-1907) was a British admiral and Arctic explorer. He mapped a great deal of hitherto-uncharted territory and made a number of geographical discoveries. Leopold McClintock was born on July 8, 1819, in Dundalk, Ireland.
Francis McLintock MBE (born 28 December 1939) is a Scottish former footballer, football manager and businessman. [5] He also worked as a sports agent and football pundit in his later life. He began his career in Scottish Junior football with Shawfield, before earning a professional contract with English First Division club Leicester City in ...
