Francis Younghusband is remembered for reaching places that the written record had not yet described.
The record lists Francis Younghusband as British army explorer (1863–1942).
Francis Younghusband was born at Murree in 1863. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom.
Nineteenth-century exploration turned inland - Africa, Asia and Australia - and was entangled from the start with empire, missions and the geographical societies that funded it.
He is recorded as explorer, athletics competitor and non-fiction writer.
What an expedition is remembered for is rarely what it set out to do.
Recognition followed: Order of the Star of India, Patron’s Medal, Plancius medal and Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire.
Francis Younghusband died in 1942, aged 79. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Order of the Star of India
- Patron’s Medal
- Plancius medal
- Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire
- Recorded as explorer, athletics competitor and non-fiction writer
