Polar Exploration

Memorial: M1229

Monument in Church Square, Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland commemorating Captain Francis Crozier, RN who died in 1848 on expedition to discover the North West Passage.

Location

Church Square, Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland

Transcript

'To perpetuate the remembrance of talent, enterprise and worth as combined in the character and evinced by the life of Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier R.N., F.R.S this monument has been erected by friends who, as they valued him in life, regret him in death,. He was second in command with Captain Sir John Franklin R.N., F.R.S. and Captain of H.M.Ship Terror in the polar expedition which left England on 22 May 1845', 'Altho' there remained no survivors of the expedition, enough had been ascertained to shew that to it is justly due the honor of the discovery of the long sought North West Passage, and that Captain Crozier, having survived his chief, perished with the remainder of the party after he had bravely led them to the coast of America: he was born at Banbridge the 17th September 1796, but the place or time of his death no man knoweth to this day'

Details

Description: 7ft statue of Crozier in naval uniform and cloak. Gothic plinth supported on red and blue granite pillars surrounded by four polar bears on flying buttresses. Between the bears on the central column, two reliefs of ships beset in the ice and two inscription panels. More reliefs were planned but not sufficient funds were raised to complete them.
Type: Memorial
Date Erected: 1862
Artists: Joseph Kirk, W. J. Barre

People

Crozier, Francis Rawdon Moira
Age: c. 51-52
Date of Death: 1848
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: DOSSIER. Statue by Joseph Kirk, plinth by W.J. Barre.
Also M1228, Memorial in Seapatrick Church.

Bibliography: Cyril Barrett 'The Crozier Memorial' 'Gatherum' vol. 5.
Recorder: Banbridge Heritage Development Ltd

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters