Fur-trader, surveyor and mapmaker. Born Dafydd ap Thomas at Marsham Street, London. He was chosen to be an apprentice to the Hudson Bay Company. Transferring to the North West Company in 1797 he embarked on many expeditions to map the country. He was the first European to navigate the Colombia river. Died in near obscurity in Montreal.
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David Thompson
Explorer. Born Paris. For his participation in the 1845 Anglo-French expedition to Madagascar Bellot received the Legion of Honour. 1851 he joined Captain Kennedy's expedition to find the Frank...
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Role on the lost expedition: Royal marine on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Portuguese nobleman who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa, in 1488, the first European known to do so since ancient times.
In 1484 the Pewterers Company acquired a site in Lime Street (which they still own) where they built a Hall, completed in 1496. This was destroyed in the Great Fire of London and a more modest sec...
Employed at the Holloway tram garage. Served and was killed in WW1.
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