LADY FRANKLIN.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 314, 9 October 1875, Page 2

LADY FRANKLIN.

Lady Franklin died on Sunday evening, the 18th, at the advanced age of eightythree. She was a Miss Griffin, on her mother’s side, descended from the French Huguenot family of■- Guillemard. She travelled extensively with her father, and on November 5, 1858, married Captain Franklin. Her residence in Australia is thus recorded in her memoir in the Times, her husband-Naving had a command in the Mediterranean fleet, during which she had resided at one of .tb# naval ..stations in. that sea.;—“Hie year ’ after their return to England Sir John received from Lord Glenelg the appointmenfcpf Governor of Van Diemen s Land. aftSwrtrda Tasmania'— amidst duties of her position, she’round time to visit almost all parts of that beautiful island. In 1839 -she I crossed over to the. infant Colony of Port Phillip, and was the first ilajdy who "travelled overland from Melbourne to Sydney, Jlhis journey of iqany hundreij. mjles lay for the most part through an unsettled region, as yet only by the earliest squatters afid.'abori’grhes of the country. She subsequently visited 'the 'new Colony of South Australia, the scene of herhusband’s labours when, as a midshipman some thirty-five years- before, '■ he had served With his commander and cousin; Matthew Flinders. While here she visited the conspicuous lull from which Flinders had discovered and taken possession of that fine territory, and on this spot she subsequentlyplaced a monument to that bold'and skilful ' though long neglected navigator-. It might have, 'been stated’ 'th'ajt Franklih Was with Flinders when he e/itered; Port Phillip Bay, “ After visiting New Zealand, ,Lady Franklin sailed early in 1844 with her husbanfi for England.’’ On May 18, 1845, Sir John left England on the expedition from which he never retufned. Since that time Ills devoted widow has been constantly before the public in connection with -expeditions to discover information respecting him. She has also made journeys in various parts of the world, the last extensive one having been in North America, when she was upwards'of eighty years of‘age. She had jno children of her own, but her husband left by a previous--marriage one daughter, who was married to the Rev. J. Gcll, of St John’s, Notting Hill, and who died a few years ago.