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| John Franklin R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 15 April 1776 | Born (Spilsbury, Lincolnshire) | ||
| 16 August 1823 | Married, firstly, Eleanor Anne (died 1825), youngest daugher of William Porden, of London | ||
| 5 November 1828 | Married, secondly, Jane (1792-1875), daughter of John Griffin, of London | ||
| 29 April 1829 | Knighted | ||
| 25 January 1836 | K.C.H. (Knight Commander of the Oder of the Guelphs) | ||
| 11 June 1847 | Died (in the area of King William Island, about halfway along the Northwest Passage) | ||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 1 October 1780 | Entered Navy | ||
| 11 February 1808 | Lieutenant | ||
| 1 January 1821 | Commander | ||
| 20 November 1822 | Captain | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 14 January 1818 | November 1818 | Lieutenant and commander in Trent, hired brig, together with Dorothea, Captain David Buchan, voyage of discovery to Spitzbergen | |
| 23 May 1819 | September 1822 | Iin command of an overland exploration of the Coppermine River area of northern Canada, in which 11 of the 20 members of the pary died of starvation or exposure, or at the hands of their comrades | |
| 16 February 1825 | 26 September 1827 | Second, more successful, overland expedition of northern Canada | |
| 23 August 1830 | January 1834 | Captain in Rainbow (1823, sixth rate), Mediterranean | |
| 6 January 1837 | 21 August 1843 | Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) | |
| 3 March 1845 | 11 June 1847 | Captain in Erebus, patricular service (together with Terror, Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier, the ill-fated British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition, 1845-1848, led by Franklin, and sent by the Admiralty to search for a Northwest Passage beyond Lancaster Sound and Barrow Strait in the unexplored region south-west of Barrow Strait) | |
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