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Sir John Richardson (
November 5,
1787 –
June 5,
1865) was a
Scottish naval surgeon,
naturalist and
arctic explorer.
Richardson was born at
Dumfries. He studied
medicine at
Edinburgh, and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He travelled with
John Franklin between 1819 and 1822 in search of the
Northwest Passage. Richardson wrote the sections on geology, botany and icthyology for the official account of the expedition.
Franklin and Richardson returned to
Canada between 1825 and 1827, again travelling overland to the
Arctic Ocean. The natural history discoveries of this expedition were so great that they'd to be recorded in two separate works, the
Flora Boreali-Americana (1833-40), written by
William Jackson Hooker, and the
Fauna Boreali-Americana (1829-37), written by Richardson,
William Swainson,
John Edward Gray and
William Kirby.
Richardson was knighted in 1846. He travelled with
John Rae on an unsuccessful search for Franklin in 1848-49, describing it in
An Arctic Searching Expedition (1851). He retired to the
Lake District in 1855, and is buried at
Grasmere.
He also wrote accounts dealing with the natural history, and especially the ichthyology, of several other Arctic voyages, and was the author of
Icones Piscium (1843),
Catalogue of Apodal Fish in the British Museum (1856), the second edition of
Yarrell's history of British Fishes (1860), and
The Polar Regions (1861).
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