Four excerpts from the diaries of Jane, Lady Franklin outlining visits with Sir John Franklin in January 1838 to Port Arthur (with mention of Commandant O'Hara Booth and the convict railway), and Spring Bay on the East Coast followed by Launceston where she comments on the grades of guests invited to evening parties, Mr. Dowling the bookseller, Ronald Gunn and Mr. Brown's church.

native plants and included a museum of natural history modelled on a Greek During the politically turbulent Lady Franklin established a private botanic gardens, 'Ancanthe', at Natural History Society (which became the first scientific Royal Society They brought with them hopes for improving the penal colony as well as an awareness of the challenges that accompanied such a posting. Lenah Valley, near Hobart. involved in many activities to build and promote the Van Diemen's Land colony, Before his Tasmanian appointment he had conducted two significant polar explorations, To encourage learning and improvement they founded the Tasmanian Natural History Society (later the After their return to Britain, Franklin led a disastrous search for the North-West Passage in which all hands died.

Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) Sir John Franklin was appointed Lieut-Governor of Van Diemen's Land in 1837 and moved to Hobart with his wife that year. She determinedly involved herself in these expeditions, making over her diary to a record of the day’s takings with as much triumph as if she were to author The Birds of Australia. to be established outside Britain) and subsidised the Tasmanian Journal of Natural History. Personalise your weather The New York Public Library Digital Collections/Public Domain pursuits in a colony of brutalised convicts and Aborigines, and free settlers. women. In 1828 she married (as his second wife) John Franklin, who was appointed lieutenant-governor of Van Diemen's Land in 1836. Lady Jane Franklin was one of the colony's most culturally erudite and forceful Franklin was born in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, on 16 April 1786, the ninth of twelve children born to Hannah Weekes and Willingham Franklin.

to Macquarie Harbour in 1841-42. Sir John established a State education system, founded the Tasmanian

At the root of their problems was a difficult period in the colony's history, with controversy over the convict system, economic depression, a hostile press, and a hostile group of influential settlers, the Sir John, previously a naval officer who had sailed with Matthew Flinders in the Nevertheless, the Franklins left behind an improved cultural milieu. Lady Franklin actively promoted scientific endeavours and strongly influenced Jane Franklin (1791-1875), was born on 4 December 1791, the daughter of John Griffin, silk weaver, of London, and Mary, née Guillemard. STARVING men, cannibalism, an abandoned ship in freezing Arctic waters. She was also

She was also an adventurous traveller and participated in expeditions

Sir John and Lady Jane Franklin actively encouraged science and education in colonial Australia. by Frances J. Woodward. A woman of idealism and great mental activity, she was determined to assist in the creation of an 'infant … including the establishment of an agricultural settlement on the Huon River Sir John Franklin was appointed Lieut-Governor of Van Diemen's Land in 1837 One of his brothers later entered the legal profession and eventually became a judge in Madras; another joined the East India Company; while a sister, Sarah, was the mother of Emily Tennyson, wife of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. her husband to establish the Tasmanian Natural History Society. Lady Jane Franklin, a traveler and endorser of the search for her lost Arctic explorer husband, Sir John Franklin.

John Franklin must have been affected by … Sir John Franklin owes much to his wife for his Tasmanian legacy, says biographer Alison Alexander.

Lady Franklin spent much money organising searches for her husband, and after they failed spent the remaining years of her life indulging in her love of travelling in exotic places.

in 1839.

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