The remains of a Lincolnshire explorer credited with naming Australia will be reburied in his home village in 2024, BBC Radio Lincolnshire has revealed.
Captain Matthew Flinders, from Donington, led the first circumnavigation of Australia.
In Grantham, one of the houses of the Boys’ Central School was named after him, together with fellow explorers Banks, Smith and Franklin.

His remains were identified after they were found in an HS2 rail project dig at St James’s burial ground in Euston, London, in 2019.
The pandemic delayed reinterment but a £35,000 grant means it can now proceed.
Jane Pearson, of the Matthew Flinders Bring Him Home group, told BBC Radio Lincolnshire: “What we want to do is make sure he has the proper tributes to him, the proper grave.
“He will be buried within the [village] church so we have been through the church authorities, got the faculty permission to dig up the church floor.
“It will be the first burial within the church since the 19th Century.
“His grave will be marked with a splendid black marble ledger stone, all of which is a big expense, so having this UK levelling up fund grant gives us the assurance to go ahead with doing all the right things.”
She said Flinders’ coffin will be carried by Royal Navy pall bearers during the service at St Mary and the Holy Rood Church in Donington on 13 July 2024, with services for children and the village either side of the interment.
Flinders joined the navy aged 15 and he made several coastal explorations of Australia, completing the circumnavigation in 1803.
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