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416 LADY FRANKLIN. that it had been his great good fortune to die on board his ship, escaping all the horrors of that terrible overland march. Indeed, he died before the expedition had experienced anything other than brilliant and striking success. In 1860, Lady Franklin was presented with a gold medal by the Royal Geographical Society. She died in. 1875. The monument erected to her husband in West- minster Abbey records, after his exploits and his fate, her name, her devotion, the date of her death, and the inseparable connection of her fame with his.