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Rh metallurgy and chemistry, created the wonderful steel manufacture from the Cleveland iron ore in North- West Yorkshire. He sat for many years in Parliament, as a Gladstonian M.P., and won many honours by his knowledge in his own line and his public services. On December 21 the Navy lost, at the age of eighty-nine, the "Father of the Fleet", Admiral Sir Erasmus Ommanney, who fought, in October, 1827, as a midshipman of thirteen, on board a wooden man-of-war, in the Battle of Navarino, in Southern Greece, when the British, French, and Russian squadrons destroyed the Turkish and Egyptian fleets. In 1850 he was with the Arctic expedition searching for the lost Sir John Franklin, and commanded an expedition to the White Sea during the Crimean war. His scientific work on several societies earned for him the Fellowship of the Royal Society.