William Parker Snow (1817–95)

Merchant seaman, writer, and adventurer. Spent some years in Australia as a young man. Worked as an amanuensis in England; spent a year in America, returning in 1850. Joined the expedition to search for Sir John Franklin as purser, doctor, and chief officer on board the Prince Albert. Went to Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, and the Falklands in command of the South American Missionary Society’s vessel Allen Gardiner in 1854; removed from command for disobedience by the superintending missionary at the Falkland Islands, 1856. Moved to New York and wrote and edited travel books. Spent the last years of his life in England researching the fate of the Franklin expedition.