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Robert FitzRoy

1805 - 1865

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Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy (5 July 1805 – 30 April 1865) was an English officer of the Royal Navy, politician and scientist who served as the second governor of New Zealand between 1843 and 1845. He achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous voyage, FitzRoy's second expedition to Tierra del Fuego and the Southern Cone. FitzRoy was a pioneering meteorologist who made accurate daily weather predictions, which he called by a new name of his own invention: "forecasts". In 1854 he established what would later be called the Met Office, and created systems to get weather information to sailors and fishermen for their safety. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert FitzRoy is the 100th most popular explorer (down from 93rd in 2019), the 966th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 789th in 2019) and the 15th most popular British Explorer.

Robert Fitzroy was an English naval officer and meteorologist who led the first scientific expedition to New Zealand. He is most famous for being the captain of the HMS Beagle on its voyage around the world, which took place from 1831 to 1836.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Robert FitzRoy ranks 100 out of 498. Before him are Benjamin of Tudela, Salomon August Andrée, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, Charles Marie de La Condamine, Cosmas Indicopleustes, and Davy Crockett. After him are James Clark Ross, Bjarni Herjólfsson, Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Atlantic voyage of the predecessor of Mansa Musa, Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, and Frederick de Houtman.

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Among people born in 1805, Robert FitzRoy ranks 16. Before him are Fanny Mendelssohn, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Marie d'Agoult, Khachatur Abovian, and Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin. After him are Adalbert Stifter, Robert Anderson, Thomas Graham, George Müller, Ewelina Hańska, and August Bournonville. Among people deceased in 1865, Robert FitzRoy ranks 14. Before him are Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Johann Franz Encke, William Jackson Hooker, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, and Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia. After him are Heinrich Barth, Infante Francisco de Paula, Duke of Cádiz, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Princess Sophie of Sweden, and John Lindley.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert FitzRoy ranks 966 out of 8,785. Before him are Francis Hutcheson (1694), Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891), Edmund Spenser (1552), Jessica Tandy (1909), Brenda Blethyn (1946), and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817). After him are John Ray (1627), Leonora Carrington (1917), James Hadley Chase (1906), Kim Cattrall (1956), John Dryden (1631), and Richard Stone (1913).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Robert FitzRoy ranks 15. Before him are Henry Hudson (1570), John Ross (1777), William Dampier (1651), John Smith (1580), Richard Francis Burton (1821), and William Parry (1790). After him are James Clark Ross (1800), Thomas Cavendish (1560), George Vancouver (1757), Mary Kingsley (1862), Ranulph Fiennes (1944), and Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet (1764).

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