George Beagle – The HMS Beagle and King George IV
http://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:George_Beagle#axzz7W7D78Ita
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Beagle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_IV
George Beagle is the Royal Attaché and leader of the Expeditionary Force to MooShu, but he and his team went missing in Kembaalung.
HMS Beagle was a Cherokee-class 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, one of more than 100 ships of this class. The vessel, constructed in 1817 at a cost of £7,803 (roughly equivalent to £712,245 or $835,400 in 2022), was launched on 11 May 1820 from the Woolwich Dockyard on the River Thames. Later reports say the ship took part in celebrations of the coronation of King George IV of the United Kingdom, passing through the old London Bridge, and was the first rigged man-of-war afloat upriver of the bridge. The Beagle was famous for bringing Charles Darwin on his voyage around the world (1831-1836) and surveying Australia (1837-1843).
George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from the death of his father, King George III, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten years later. He had already been serving as Prince Regent since 5 February 1811, during his father’s final mental illness.
This is the thirty-fourth article chronicling the #W101PopCulture references starting in Wizard City and the twelfth for Krokotopia. The current list of all the (known) Krokotopia references can be found here. These articles were originally put together for a Facebook group I belong to. Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
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HMS Beagle in the Straits of Magellan – Wikipedia – R. T. Pritchett – The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 57 p. 87, reproduction of frontispiece from Darwin, Charles (1890), Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle etc. (First Murray illustrated edition), London: John Murray (The Voyage of the Beagle). It is in the public domain.
King George IV – Wikipedia – Thomas Lawrence – from the Royal Collection object 405918 – Public Domain
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