[Born 1812. Still living.]
The only surviving son of George Canning, Prime Minister of England. Has
been Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and for a short time,
in 1846, was Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests. He was Chairman of
the Council of Juries in the Great Exhibition of 1851.
[By Macdonald.]
480.* WILLIAM HULME HOOPER. _Naval Officer._
[Born in London, 1826. Died there 1854. Aged 27.]
One of the intrepid Arctic explorers, whose spirit of enterprise has
impelled them to invade the ocean, in his sternest and most terrific
domain, through hope to solve the mystery hanging over the fate of Sir
John Franklin. Lieutenant Hooper commanded the second cutter in the
remarkable voyage of the boats of Her Majesty’s ship “Plover” from Icy
Cape to Cape Bathurst. Lost for three days and nights in an Arctic snow
storm, quartered two long and lonely winters away from his ship in
log-huts with a few of his men, under every privation, he brought home
the fastened malady of the lungs which so early cut short his ardent
career.
[This bust is by David Dunbar.]
PRELATES AND THEOLOGIANS.