Explorer. Born Devon. He and his wife Isabel, have a very unusual tomb at St Mary Magdalen, Worple Road, Mortlake.
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Dr. Edward Adrian Wilson
Born Cheltenham. One of Scott's four companions who died with him, returning from the South Pole. Cheltenham honours Wilson with a statue on the Promenade and an exhibition in the town museum.
2 memorials
James Fitzjames
Role on the lost expedition: Captain on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
Thomas R. Farr
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
Bartolomeu Dias
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.
1 memorial
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