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Edward Belcher, KCB (Halifax, Nueva Escocia, 27 de febrero de 1799-Londres, 18 de marzo de 1877), fue un oficial naval y explorador británico. Fue el bisnieto del gobernador Jonathan Belcher (1682-1757).
Admiral Sir Edward Belcher KCB (27 February 1799 – 18 March 1877) was a British naval officer, hydrographer, and explorer. Born in Nova Scotia, he was the great-grandson of Jonathan Belcher, who served as a colonial governor of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New Jersey.
Edward Belcher, KCB, fue un oficial naval y explorador británico. Fue el bisnieto del gobernador Jonathan Belcher (1682-1757). Su esposa, Diana Jolliffe, era la hijastra del capitán Peter Heywood. Fue conocido como un duro comandante que inspiraba odio a sus oficiales.
19 de jul. de 1998 · Sir Edward Belcher (born 1799, Halifax, Nova Scotia [now in Canada]—died March 18, 1877, London, Eng.) was a naval officer who performed many coastal surveys for the British Admiralty. The grandson of a governor of Nova Scotia, Belcher entered the navy in 1812.
Sir Edward Belcher was a war hero, an explorer, a scientist, and a writer. He commanded a voyage around the world and made significant contributions to geography, nautical surveying, climatology, and other naval and scientific endeavors.
Prominent in the important but routine survey work undertaken by the British Navy around the globe after the Napoleonic wars, a spectacular failure as an arctic explorer, and most unpopular officer in the fleet, Sir Edward Belcher remains today in relative, perhaps deserved, obscurity. ...
Between 1852 and 1854, Sir Edward Belcher commanded what would be the final expedition in search of Sir John Franklin organised by the Admiralty.
