One I so truly loved:  Francis Crozier in the writings of James Clark Ross1. “I feel

One I so truly loved:  Francis Crozier in the writings of James Clark Ross1. “I feel it my duty in a more especial manner to recommend to your Lordships favourable consideration Mr Crozier my first Lieut: whose previous services under the distinguished Sir E. Parry and the high character he maintained … and his having been upward10 years a Lieut: are alone strong claims to your Lordships consideration.” – to Lord Minto, 30 September 1836Image: The Northern Whale Fishery by John Ward, c. 1830—2. “The high example of Naval Enterprize that he has on this occasion manifested and the zealous and efficient manner in which he has fulfilled his trying and difficult duties makes me anxious that an officer of such high reputation who has given so many instances of distinguished merit should receive that promotion which it has been the invariable practice of the Admiralty to bestow on the first Lieut. of all the Arctic Expeditions that have hitherto been sent forth.” –  to Lord Minto, 30 September 1836Image: “A practical illustration of a striking defect in naval uniform” by Owen Stanley, 1845—3. “It affords me the highest gratification to acquaint you that I have received the most cordial and efficient co-operation from my well-tried friend and colleague Captain Crozier, and no terms of admiration that I can employ can do justice to his great merit.” – to the secretary of the Admiralty, 7 April 1841Image: Photograph of James Clark Ross by Maull & Polyblank, c. 1856—4. “The eastern cape at the foot of Mount Terror was named after my friend and colleague Commander Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier, of the Terror, to whose zeal and cordial co-operation is mainly to be ascribed, under God’s blessing, the happiness as well as success of the expedition.” – p. 219, A voyage of discovery and research in the southern and Antarctic regions, vol. 1, 1847Image: Daguerrotype of Francis Crozier, taken on board HMS Terror by Richard Beard, 1845—5. “Under the circumstances we were placed in, it is impossible for others fully to understand the value of having so tried a friend, of now more than twenty years’ standing, as commander of the second ship, upon whom the harmony and right feeling between the two vessels so greatly depends.” – p. 219, A voyage of discovery and research in the southern and Antarctic regions, vol. 1, 1847Image: A Ship Against the Mewstone by J.M.W. Turner, 1814—6. “Captain Crozier was distinguished for devotion to his duties as an officer, zeal for the advancement of science, and the untiring assiduity and exactness of his magnetic and other observations.” – obituary written for the Royal Society, 1856Image: Rossbank Observatory by Thomas Bock, c. 1841—7. “Captain Crozier was of an amiable and cheerful disposition, and his unbending integrity and truthfulness, invariably won the affection and respect of those he commanded as well as the admiration and firm friendship of all those officers under whom he had served.” – p. 5-6, Memoir of the Late Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier, 1859Image: Walking in the Pack by John Edward Davis, c. 1842—8. “I was limited to 12 lines to speak of his services. It was hardly possible to say the thousandth part of what I should have like to have said of one I so truly loved.” – to Eleanor Franklin Gell, 20 March 1855. Image: Posthumous portrait of James Clark Ross, by Stephen Pearce, 1871—With thanks to @handfuloftime and @annecoulmanross for finding some of these!  -- source link

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