See also:SIR See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES See also:CLARK See also:ROSS (1800-1862)
, See also:British See also:rear-See also:admiral and Polar explorer, was See also:born in See also:London on the 15th of See also:April 1800
.
He entered the See also:navy in 1812 under his See also:uncle, See also:Captain (afterwards See also:Sir) See also:John See also:Ross, whom he accompanied on his first See also:Arctic voyage in See also:search of a See also:North-See also:West passage (1818)
.
Between 1819 and 1827 he returned four times to the same seas in the Arctic expeditions under See also:Parry, and in 1829-33 again served on the same See also:mission under his uncle, and while thus employed determined (1831) the position of the North Magnetic See also:Pole
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In 1834 he was promoted captain, and from 1835-38 was employed on the magnetic survey of See also:Great See also:Britain
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In 1839-43 he commanded the See also:Antarctic expedition of the " See also:Erebus " and " Terror " (see POLAR REGIONS), and for this service he received a See also:knight-See also:hood (1844) and was nominated to the See also:French See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour
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He published a narrative of this expedition under the See also:title of A Voyage of See also:Discovery and See also:Research to See also:Southern and Antarctic Regions (1847), and was the author also of various reports on zoological and other matters See also:relating to his earlier voyages
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He was elected to the Royal Society in 1848, and in that See also:year made his last expedition, as captain of the " Enter-prise," in the first See also:Franklin search expedition
.
He died at See also:Aylesbury on the 3rd of April 1862
.
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