biography
| name: |
Richardson, Sir John
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1787–1865)
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| biography:
| Naturalist and explorer, born in Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland, UK. A surgeon in the Royal Navy (1807–55), he served in the Arctic expeditions of Parry and Franklin (1819–22, 1825–7), and the Franklin search expedition of 1848–9. He wrote Fauna Boreali-Americana (1829–37) and Ichthyology of the Voyage of HMS Erebus and Terror (1844–8), and made major contributions to the knowledge of ichthyology of the Indo-Pacific region. |
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