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Title
Francis Crozier (1796–1848)
Date
1861–1862
Medium
limestone, granite & sandstone
Accession number
BT32_AL_S030
Work type
Monument
Owner
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council
Custodian
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council
Work status
extant
Listing status
B1 (Northern Ireland)
Unveiling date
1862
Listing date
17/05/76
Access
at all times
Inscription description
inscribed on the front niche: TO / PERPETUATE THE REMEMBRANCE / OF TALENT, ENTERPRISE, AND WORTH / AS COMBINED IN THE CHARACTER AND EVIDENCED / IN 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 THE 22ND MAY 1845; and on the niche at the back: ALTHO / THERE REMAINED NO / SURVIVORS OF THE EXPEDITION ENOUGH / HAS BEEN ASCERTAINED TO SHEW THAT TO IT / IS JUSTLY DUE THE HONOR OF THE / DISCOVERY OF THE LONG SOUGHT FOR / 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 () SEPTEMBER 1796. / BUT OF THE PLACE OR TIME OF HIS DEATH / NO MAN KNOWETH UNTO THIS DAY; and below the illustrated niche on the left side in raised lettering: CROZIER