M'Clure, SIR ROBERT JOHN LE MESURIER

M'Clure, SIR ROBERT JOHN LE MESURIER, the discoverer of the North-west Passage, was born at Wexford, 28th January 1807, and entered the navy in 1824, served in Back's Arctic Expedition in 1836, and Ross's Franklin Expedition in 1848. As commander of another Franklin Expedition (1850-54) he passed in a sledge from Barrow Strait, where his ship, the Investigator, lay, to Melville Sound, connecting with the Arctic Ocean to the west. M'Clure was rescued by another expedition, made K.C.B., and after serving in Chinese waters, an admiral. He died 17th October 1873. See POLAR EXPLORATION and works there cited.