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, FRANCIS EDWARD (1851- )
• CLARK, GEORGE ROGERS (1752—1818)
• CLARK, JOHN BATES (1847— )
• CLARK, JOSIAH LATIMER (1822—1898)
• CLARK, SIR ANDREW
• CLARK, SIR JAMES (1788—1870)
• CLARK, THOMAS (1801—1867)
• CLARK, WILLIAM (1770-1838)
• CLARK, WILLIAM GEORGE (1821—1878)

CLARK

See also:

• ROSS
• ROSS, ALEXANDER (1699-1784)
• ROSS, GEORGE WILLIAM (1841- )
• ROSS, JOHN, or KOOESKOOWE (179o-1866)
• ROSS, ROBERT (1766-1814)
• ROSS, SIR HEW DALRYMPLE (1779-1868)
• SIR JAMES CLARK ROSS (1800-1862)
• ROSS, SIR JOHN (1777-1856)

ROSS (1800-1862)  , British rear-admiral and Polar explorer, was born in London on the 15th of April 1800 . He entered the navy in 1812 under his uncle, Captain (afterwards Sir) John Ross, whom he accompanied on his first Arctic voyage in search of a North-West passage (1818) . Between 1819 and 1827 he returned four times to the same seas in the Arctic expeditions under Parry, and in 1829-33 again served on the same mission under his uncle, and while thus employed determined (1831) the position of the North Magnetic Pole . In 1834 he was promoted captain, and from 1835-38 was employed on the magnetic survey of Great Britain . In 1839-43 he commanded the Antarctic expedition of the " Erebus " and " Terror " (see POLAR REGIONS), and for this service he received a knight-hood (1844) and was nominated to the French order of the Legion of Honour . He published a narrative of this expedition under the title of A Voyage of Discovery and Research to Southern and Antarctic Regions (1847), and was the author also of various reports on zoological and other matters relating to his earlier voyages . He was elected to the Royal Society in 1848, and in that year made his last expedition, as captain of the " Enter-prise," in the first Franklin search expedition . He died at Aylesbury on the 3rd of April 1862 .