The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-08
THE LATE LADY FRANKLIN.

The london Times publishes long obituary
notice of the late Lady Franklin, from which we
quote as follows
Jane Franklin was the second daughter of Jno.
| Griffin and his wife Mary, nee Guillemard, whose
| family took refuge in England after the revoca-
ton of the edict Of Nantes, and it was probably
| from her Huguenot ancestry that she derived
that steadfastness and tenacity OF purpose which
was mingled throughout her career with the lively
characteristics of the Norman race. Her father
was by habit traveller, and this passion for
| travel descended to his daughter, who accompa-
MED him in his yearly journeys through England
and the Continent, which she first visited in 1874
| Immediately after the peace of Amiens, going
| first to Genoa and then to Naples, where the
escape of Napoleon from Elba found them in
| favor of Murat returning to Genoa, they passed
the winter OF 1856 among family connections
in this now additionally exclusive community,
over which Milan 80 long exercised q powerful
influence. In subsequent years we find her with
her father travelling in Germany, Bohemia Den
mark, Norway, Holland. She afterward visited
Madrid, and lastly st. Petersburg and Moscow, a
journey which Immediately preceded her mar
riage on the 9Th of November, 1928, with Captain
(afterward Sir John Franklin, who had then re-
turned from his second expedition of discovery
on the coast of Arctic America.
The year alter their return to England, Sir
John received from Lord Gleneig the appoint
ment Of Governor Of Van Dieman's land, after
ward Tasmania, where, amidst the multifarious
duties OF her position, she found time to visit
almost all parts OF that beautiful island. In 1889
she crossed over to the then infant colony of
Port Philip, and was the first lady who travelled
overland from Melbourne to Sydney This jour
ney of many hundred miles lay for the most part
Though an unsettled region, as yet occupied
only by the earliest squatters and the aborigines
Of the country. She subsequently visited the
new colony Of South Australia the scene of her
husbands labors, when, as q midshipman. some
thirty-fve years before, he had served with his
commander and cousin, Matthew Flinders
While here she visited the conspicuous hill
from which Flinders had discovered and taken
possession of that fine territory, and this spot
she subsequently placed monument to that
gator. After visiting New Zealand. Lady Frank
lin sailed early in 1874, with her husband, for
England. A few months after their return Sir
John was offered the command Of the expedition |
about to be sent to discover the northwest pas
sage, and with her majestys ships, Erebus and |
Terror, left England for the last time, on the |
18th OF May, 1845.
In the spIing of 1s4s the uueasiness which for |
some months had been felt in regard to the fate |
of the Erebus and Terror had ripened into ankle
ty, which developed itself into the form Of two
government expeditions, the one by land, the |
other by sea. The first undertaken by Franklin's |
old companion and valued friend, Sir John Rich
ardson, was designed for the examination Of the
northern seaboard Of the American continent;
the other, destined to follow the presumed
track of the missing ships, was placed under the
of friend hardly less tried and no less
true-Sir James Clarke Ross. After the search
by the government had closed with the return
Of Sr Edward Belcher's expedition in 1854,
Lady Franklin embarked once more in pri-
vato enterprise for the attainment of her object.
In carrying this out she had the singular advan-
tage OF securing as commander OF the Fox the
chief Of living artic explorers, now
Admiral Sir Leopold McClintock. How fully his
mission was accomplished is known to all. The
early proceedings of her husbands expedition,
The date of his own DEATH the death Of nine Off
GERS and fifteen men were recorded on the au
shority OF the record found on King Williams
Land by Lieut.. Hobson, of the Fox and fu ther
evidence was obtained Of the desperate efforts at
escape in which all persisted.
The Fox returned from her arctic voyage in the
autumn Of 1859, when Lady Franklin had been
again ordered to the South after severe illness.
She shared in the honors bestowed upon those
Who had achieved the object of her life in being
he first woman upon whom the gold medal Of
he Royal Geographical Society was conferred-a
distinction extended since only to the late Mrs.
,omerville. 1t was given to Lady Franklin in re-
,ognition both of her husbands discovery OF the
northwest passage and ofthose efforts of her own
which had been the means of ascertaining his {
The last years Of her life were passed in
lmost Incessant travel. In 1853 she visited
Ilgiers, Tunis Malta. and, in 1862 New York, |
,anadas and Montreal, whence she started on S
oyage round the American continent. She !
listed Rio Janeiro, San francisco, the Sand !
Tieh Islands, Japan, China and Egypt, and in
ater years parts of India, Ceylon, Italy, Spain,
'enerife Western Africa, the Azores and Portu- I
al. In her eightieth year she again came to
lew York, having travelled from San Francisco
y rail
We have received the fourth number of Sumac =
cares, an interesting little magazine, published :
' the young ladies of the Feliciana Female Col z
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