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Richard Mayne (explorer)

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In 1886, Allen was among the Liberal MPs who broke with Gladstone over Irish Home Rule. Shortly after the election was announced, Mayne arrived in the constituency launch his campaign. At a meeting at the Masonic Hall in Pembroke, he emphasised that he had consulted with Allen before travelling to
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requested the Lords of the Admiralty to ask Capt. Mayne to collect several boatloads of fossil bones of extinct species of quadrupeds. Admiral Sulivan had previously discovered an astonishingly rich accumulation of fossil bones not far from the Straits. These remains apparently belonged to a more
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In 1870, Captain Mayne married Miss Sabine Dent, a daughter of Sir Thomas Dent (1796–1872) and his wife, Sabine Ellen Robarts, daughter of James Thomas Robarts (1784–1825), another influential opium merchant. Sabine Dent was a relation of
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until severely wounded in 1863 and invalided home. For these services he was mentioned in despatches and promoted to the rank of Captain; and in 1867 received the Companionship of the Bath.
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A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, Fourth edition. BURKE. Sir John Bernard, London: Harrison, 1875, 1886. 2 vol.
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and by other naturalists and therefore of great interest to science. Many of these were collected with the aid of Hydrographer Capt. Richards R.N. and deposited in the
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Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885--1912
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Calendar of State Papers Ireland, 1611-1614, HMPRO, Edited by The Rev C.W. Russell, D.D., and John P. Pendergast, Esq., London: Longman & Co. 1877
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Four years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island. An account of their forests, rivers, coasts, gold fields, and resources for colonisation.
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and was assigned the exploration and mapping of hitherto unknown parts of the colony. His journal of these activities is a classic source of
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for his vessel. For this work, in 1860, he was promoted to Commander and returned to England. In 1862 he was appointed to the command of
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had not yet been founded or named at the time of publication. Likewise the name "British Columbia" references the
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the constituency and stated that he had a letter in his possession from Allen confirming his decision to retire.
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on the survey expedition to the Straits of Magellan, 1866–9. The naturalist on the voyage was
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Letter from B.J. Sulivan, 27 June 1866 and nn. 6 and 7 in the Darwin Letters. See:
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Sailing Directions for Magellan Strait, and Channels Leading to the Gulf of Peñas
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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Pembrokeshire constituencies
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The Fermanagh Story, Pedar Livingston, The Clogher Historical Society, 1969
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officer and explorer, who in later life became a Conservative politician.
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In 1856 Lieutenant Mayne was attached to the Nautical Survey of
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After retiring from the Navy, he unsuccessfully contested the
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Inquisition Ultonium, Fermanagh (33),(40) and (55) Car I
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Irish emigrants to pre-Confederation British Columbia
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ancient period, than the collection by Mr Darwin on
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Four years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island
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Index

Richard Charles Mayne
Richard Mayne (disambiguation)

Rear-Admiral
CB
FRGS
Royal Navy
Richard Mayne
KCB
Edward Mayne
Trinity College, Dublin
Eton
County Fermanagh
Plantation of Ulster
County Cavan
Vancouver Island
George Henry Richards
HMS Plumper
HMS Hecate
British Columbia
Royal Engineers
Colonel Richard Moody
British Columbia history
Royal Engineer
Henry Spencer Palmer
Mayne Island
Gulf Islands
Hecate Strait
HMS Eclipse
New Zealand Wars

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