A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Aldrich, Robert Dawes
ALDRICH. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Robert Dawes Aldrich entered the Navy 22 Jan. 1824; passed his examination 1 Sept. 1830; and served for some time, as Mate, on board the Buzzard and Wizard, Lieut.-Commanders Chas. Fitzgerald and Thos. Fred. Birch, employed in the suppression of the slave-trade on the coast of Africa. He was promoted (from the Caledonia 120, flagship at Plymouth of Sir Graham Moore) to the rank of Lieutenant, 7 March, 1842. His appointments have since been – on the 9th of the latter month, to the Winchester 52, flag-ship of Hon. Josceline Percy, at the Cape of Good Hope – 1 Aug. 1842, to the Bittern 16, Capt. Edm. Peel, on the same station – and, 6 April, 1846, as First, to the Apollo troop-ship, Capt. Wm. Radcliffe, with whom he is at present serving.