[Sir] Francis Leopold McClintock

Life
1819-1907 [M’Clintock]; b. Dundalk, British Navy, 1831; Lieutenant, 1845; led Arctic voyages on Intrepid; sailed on the “Fox”, bought by Lady Franklin, to find her husband Sir John in the Arctic, recovering graves and possession along with Franklin’s journal up to 25 April 1848; returned to England, 1859; issued an account of the voyage as The Voyage of the Fox in the Arctic Seas (1859); also a Narrative of the Fate of Sir John Francis and His Companions (q.d.); knighted 1860; M’Clintock Channel, Canada, is named after him; served in Mediterranean, North Sea, America, and West Indies; KCB 1891; superintend. Portsmouth Dock. d. London. DIB DIW

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Criticism
David Murphy, The Arctic Fox: Francis Leopold McClintock (Cork: Collins Press 2004) 176pp.

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Notes
Brian Cleeve & Ann Brady, A Dictionary of Irish Writers (Dublin: Lilliput 1985), lists Voyage &c. 1859); ‘found evidence in King William’s Land that Franklin had died in 1847 after his ships had been locked in pack ice for nine months .. abandoned by their crews [who died] trying to reach civilisation ... McClintock knighted 1860 and given Freedom of City [of London].’

Bernard Share, ed., Far Green Fields, 1500 Years of Irish Travel Writing, ed. (Blackstaff 1992), contains extract from F. L. McClintock, The Fate of Sir John Franklin [1st pub. 1860; 5th edn.] (London: John Murray 1881).

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