This memorial was originally published in 1881 at the request of Irving's father. Born in 1815, Irving was a lieutenant on HMS Terror during Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition to find the North West passage. Found by a search party in 1878, a body was identified as Irving's by a silver medal and was returned to Edinburgh for burial. This memorial contains biographical details of Irving, his letters, details of the various search and rescue attempts, a description of his funeral and a reconstructed chronology of the Franklin expedition compiled by Clements Markham.