A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Edwards, Rowland
EDWARDS. (Lieutenant, 1841)
Rowland Edwards, born in 1813, is third son of John Edwards, Esq., of the Hall, Great Ness, near Shrewsbury, a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Shropshire, by Charlotte Margaret, daughter of the Rev. Geo. Martin, Vicar of Great Ness, by Lady Mary Murray, youngest daughter of John, third Duke of Atholl.
This officer entered the Navy 31 May, 1827; and passed his examination in 1834. While Mate of the Larne 18, Capt. Augustus Leopold Kuper, he acquired great credit for his conduct in the boats under Lieut. Rundle Burges Watson, in an impressive attack made upon 13 Chinese war-junks, near Chuenpee, 7 Jan. 1841.[1] Soon after his promotion, which took place 6 May following, Mr. Edwards joined the Wellesley 72, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Jas. John Gordon Bremer. His appointments, since his return to England in 1842, have been – 9 Sept. 1844, as First-Lieutenant, to the Osprey 12, Capt. Fred. Patten, in the East Indies – and, 9 June, 1845, to the Pilot 16, Capt. Geo. Knyvett Wilson, under whom he is at present serving on the same station.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, pp. 1281-23.