William Hulme Hooper

William Hulme Hooper (13 June 1826 – 19 May 1854) was an English Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer who served on HMS Plover under Commander Thomas E. L. Moore, which sailed out of Plymouth, England, in 1848, on a mission to find the lost remains of Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition of 1845.

For other people with similar names, see William Hooper (disambiguation).

William Hulme Hooper
Born(1826-06-13)13 June 1826[1]
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Died19 May 1854(1854-05-19) (aged 27)
London, Middlesex, England
Branch Royal Navy
RankLieutenant

South of the Bering Straits at the onset of winter, the Plover overwintered in Providence Bay, Siberia, which they named for the fortune that brought them there. Hooper and his companions fell in with the Chukchi, an experience he wrote about in his book Ten Months among the Tents of the Tuski (1853).

His health weakened by three Arctic winters, Hooper died in London on 19 May 1854.[2]

References

Footnotes
  1. Robinson 1883, p. 259.
  2. Laughton 1893, p. 207.

Bibliography
  • Hooper, W. H. (1853). Ten months among the tents of the Tuski, with incidents of an Arctic boat expedition in search of Sir John Franklin. London: John Murray. OCLC 1157905068.
  • Laughton, J. K. (1893). "Hooper, William Hulme". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. XXVII. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 207.
  • Robinson, C. J. (1883). A register of the scholars admitted into Merchant Taylors' School: from A.D. 1562 to 1874. Vol. II. Lewes: Farncombe & Co. OCLC 4543977.
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