A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Burridge, Richard

1643184A Naval Biographical Dictionary — Burridge, RichardWilliam Richard O'Byrne

BURRIDGE. (Captain, 1846.)

Richard Burridge entered the Navy, 2 Sept. 1808, on board the Skylark 16, Capt. Henry Evelyn Pitfield Sturt, on the North Sea station, and afterwards served, until the establishment of peace, with the same officer, and Capts. Geo. Wm. Hughes D’Aeth, Rich. Buck, and Gawen Wm. Hamilton, in the Termagant 28, and Rainbow 32. While attached to the Termagant he assisted, under Capt. Sturt, at the defence of Sicily against the threatened invasion of Murat in 1810, and was frequently in hostile collision with the enemy’s gun-vessels and batteries on the coasts of Italy and Spain. In the Rainbow Mr. Burridge witnessed the fall of Genoa in April, 1814. Between the latter period and the receipt of his first commission, 10 Nov. 1824, he successively joined, on the West India, Newfoundland, and Mediterranean stations, the Esk 20, Capt. Geo. Gustavus Lennock, Drake 10, Capts. Wm. Nugent Glascock and Octavius F. C. Venables Vernon, and Phaeton 46, Capt. H. E. P. Sturt. His appointments as Lieutenant appear to have been — 4 July, 1826, to the Pelorus 18, Capts. Wm. Hamley and Peter Richards, on the last-named station — 25 June, 1830, as First, to the Wolf 18, Capt. Wm. Hamley, in the East Indies — and, 10 May, 1834, in the same capacity, to the Portland 62, Capt. Wm. Price, again in the Mediterranean. He was awarded a second promotal commission 28 June, 1838; and, on 11 March, 1841, was selected to command the Thunderer 84, Capts. Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley and Daniel Pring, in which ship he served for some time in the Mediterranean and at the Cape of Good Hope, as well as in attendance upon the Queen off Walmer Castle in Nov. and Dec. 1842. Capt. Burridge, who has been unemployed since Oct. 1843, at which period the Thunderer was placed out of commission, attained his present rank 9 Nov. 1846.

He married, 2 April, 1845, Mary, relict of the late Geo. Green, Esq., merchant, and daughter of the late Thos. Hurd, Esq., of Ewell Court, Surrey. He became a widower 12 April, 1846. Agents — Messrs. Stilwell.