# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-torrington
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:04:57.502Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-torrington"
name: "John Torrington"
slug: "john-torrington"
description: "John Shaw Torrington was a Royal Navy stoker. He was part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition to chart unexplored areas of what is now Nunavut, Canada, find the Northwest Passage, and make scientific observations. He was the first fatality of the expedition, of which all personnel ultimately died, mostly in and around King William Island. Torrington was buried on Beechey Island. His body was exhumed by forensic anthropologist Owen Beattie in 1984, to try to determine the cause of death. His remains are among the best preserved example of a corpse since the ancient Tollund Man which was found in the 1950s. Photographs of his mummified remains were widely published and inspired music and literature."
tagline: "British explorer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Torring_grave_sm.jpg/330px-Torring_grave_sm.jpg"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1825"
deathDate: "1846-01-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.5910735826296744
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جون ٹورینگٹن"
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    title: "جون تورينجتون (مستكشف من المملكه المتحده لبريطانيا العظمى و ايرلاندا)"
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    title: "John Torrington"
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    title: "John Torrington"
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    title: "John Torrington"
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    title: "Торрингтон, Джон"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump