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I took a DNA test – and found I’m related to a famous explorer who was eaten by his crew
“I was, in a way, delighted.” The tooth belonged to James Fitzjames, captain of HMS Erebus, which had departed England in 1845 with another ship, HMS Terror, to explore the Northwest Passage ...
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Second Member Of Lost 1845 Arctic Expedition Identified, Along With His Grim Fate
His name was Captain James Fitzjames, a senior officer onboard HMS Erebus born on July 27, 1813. In a grim twist, the latest ...
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The Note in the Cairn
James Fitzjames Captain HMS Erebus F. R. M. Crozier Captain & Senior Offr And start on tomorrow 26th for Backs Fish River ...
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James Kenneth Stephen
Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1829-1894). A brilliant athlete and intellectual, Jem went “mad” in the late 1880s, according to Virginia Woolf, and was committed to St. Andrews Hospital in Northampton, ...