A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Brown, Thomas Bourmaster
BROWN. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 18; h-p., 9.)
Thomas Bourmaster Brown, born 17 March, 1806, is eldest son of Rear-Admiral Thos. Brown.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 March, 1820, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Vigo 74, commanded by his father, then Flag-Captain to Rear-Admiral Robt. Lambert, on the St. Helena station. He next, from Sept. 1821, until Jan. 1826, served in South America, as Midshipman of the Beaver 10, Capt. Archibald Maclean, Créole 36, Commodore Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy, and {sc|Tartar}} 42, Capt. Brown; became, on the latter date, attached to the Victory 104, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Geo. Martin; passed his examination 1 March following; and, after an intermediate servitude, as Mate, in the Espiégle 18, Capt. Chas. Ramsay Drinkwater, Isis 50, flag-ship of Sir Lawrence Wm. Halsted, and Aurora 46, Capt. Chas. John Austen, on the West India station, was made Lieutenant into the Espiégle, Capt. G. A. Yates, 15 March, 1828. He returned home, in June, 1830, in the Fairy 10, Capt. Fras. Blair, and successively joined, between that period and April, 1835, when he invalided, the Prince Regent 120, flag-ship at the Nore of Sir John Poo Beresford, one, afterwards, of an experimental squadron under Rear-Admiral Wm. Parker – Donegal 78, Capt. John Dick, similarly employed – and Talavera 74, and Caledonia 120, both commanded by his father, in the North Sea and Mediterranean. He was subsequently appointed for short periods – 30 March, 1836, to the Minden 74, Capt. Alex. Ronton Sharpe, on the latter station – 26 July, 1838, to the Britannia, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Philip Durham – and, 30 Oct. 1840, to the Indus 78, Capt. Sir Jas. Stirling, also in the Mediterranean. He was promoted to his present rank 23 Nov. 1841, and since 10 Jan. 1846, has been in command of the Snake 16, at the Cape of Good Hope.
Commander Brown married, 1 Feb. 1837, Louisa, eldest daughter of the late Dr. Peter Breton, Superintendent of the Bengal Native Medical Establishment, and by that lady has issue. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.