Biografie
In c1719 he entered the service of the Hudson's Bay Co.
He commanded the HBC ship Hannah in 1725.
He commanded the Seahorse I in 1734 and the Hudson's Bay V in 1737 in voyages to Hudson Bay.
He undertook original work in magnetic variations of the compass in Hudson Bay and published a paper in 1726.
He was the leader of an Admiralty expedition 1741-42 to search Hudson Bay for the entrance to the Northwest Passage in the Furnace and the Discovery. The expedition was plagued with problems but he maped Wager Bay, Roes Welcome Sound and Repulse Bay.
In 1745 he was given command of the Shark but was placed on half-pay shortly afterwards.
Benannte Orte
Cape Middleton (NT)
Referenzen
Davis, Richard C. (Ed.) (1996)
