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    Who was Lady Franklin, who was her husband, and how has his fate been immortalized?

    Question #69793. Asked by smartie806. (Aug 17 06 10:49 AM)


    chiboy65

    		Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Aug 17 06, 11:32 AM
    Brainyblonde

    		Lady Jane Franklin was one of the colony's most culturally erudite and forceful women. She was also an adventurous traveller and participated in expeditions which explored Tasmania, including one which crossed the island from Hobart to Macquarie Harbour in 1841-42.

    Before his Tasmanian appointment he had conducted two significant polar explorations, and he later lost his life on the greatest of his expeditions (1845-1847) to discover the N W Passage.


    http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/franklin.biography.html

    Sir John Franklin was appointed Lieut-Governor of Van Diemen's Land in 1837 and moved to Hobart with his wife that year. During the politically turbulent years of his office (1837-1843) he strove to promote the development of cultural pursuits in a colony of brutalised convicts and Aborigines, and free settlers.



    Aug 17 06, 11:33 AM
    McGruff

    		Franklin's fate has been immortalized in the song, "Lady Franklin's Lament" sometimes found under the title, "Franklin the Brave." I believe the tune is also known as "The Croppy Boy."
    http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiLADYFRAN;ttCROPPIE2.html

    Aug 17 06, 11:48 AM
    Baloo55th

    		It's one of those tunes that got used for a whole load of sets of words. Even hymns...

    Aug 17 06, 3:28 PM

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