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EDWARDS—EDWIN—XEDYEXX—EGERTON.
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.
EDWARDS. (Lieut., 1821. f-p., 12; h-p., 25.)
Sampson Edwards, born in Jan. 1797, is second son of the late Sampson Edwards, Esq., Admiral of the Red, who died, 14 Sept. 1840, aged 95; nephew of Capt. Valentine Edwards, R.N., who was lost in the Sceptre 64, at the Cape of Good Hope, 5 Nov. 1799; and cousin of Rear-Admiral Valentine Collard. This officer entered the Royal Naval College 23 Jan. 1810; and embarked, 11 May, 1812, as a Volunteer, on board La Nymphe 38, Capt. Farmery Predam Epworth, under whom we find him blockading for a considerable time the port of Boston. Until Aug. 1815, he afterwards served with the same officer in the Bulwark 74. He then successively joined the Albion 74, Capt. Jas. Walker, Romney 50, Capt. John Mackellar, and Salisbury 50, bearing the flag in the West Indies of Rear-Admiral John Erskine Douglas, where, from Dec. 1816, until July, 1817, he appears to have officiated as Acting-Lieutenant of the latter ship and of the Active 46, Capt. Philip Carteret. After an intermediate re-attachment, as Admiralty-Midshipman, to the Salisbury, and a further servitude, in a similar capacity, on board the Hind 20, Capt. Sir Chas. Burrard, and Vigo 74, bearing the flag at St. Helena of Rear-Admiral Robt. Lambert, Mr. Edwards was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 5 Feb. 1821, and appointed to the Heron 18, Capts. Job Hanmer and Henry Fras. Greville. He returned home from the Cape of Good Hope in March, 1823.; and has not since been employed.
He married, 22 April, 1828, Harriett Anne, only daughter of the Rev. P. W. Jolliife, Incumbent of Poole, Dorset.
EDWARDS. (Retired Commander, 1840. f-p., 18; h-p., 33.)
William Edwards was born 30 Oct. 1781.
This officer entered the Navy, 21 Jan. 1796, as Ordinary, on board the Atlas 98, Capts. Edm. Dod, Matthew Squire, Shuldham Peard, and Theophilus Jones, stationed in the Channel, where he speedily attained the rating of Midshipman. Soon after his removal to the Defiance 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Thos. Graves, we find him witnessing Lord Keith’s capture, on 19 June, 1799, of three frigates and two brigs under Rear-Admiral Perrée; and, while in the same ship, sharing in the battle off Copenhagen, 2 April, 1801. Subsequently to that event, Mr. Edwards joined the Dreadnought 98, Capt. Jas. Vashon, Dryad 36, Commodore Wm. Domett, and Prince of Wales 98, flag-ship in succession of Vice-Admirals Sir Robt. Calder and Edw. Thornbrough, under the former of whom he bore a part in the action of 22 July, 1805. Attaining the rank of Lieutenant, 15 Aug. 1806, he was next appointed, in the autumn of that year, to the Agamemnon 64, Capt. Jonas Rose; in command of a party of seamen belonging to which ship he joined the naval brigade employed at the siege of Copenhagen, in Sept. 1807. His appointments afterwards were – 26 May, 1809, to the Foudroyant 80, flag-ship at the Brazils of Rear-Admiral Hon. Michael De Courcy – 26 Dec. 1809, and 19 Dec. 1810, to the Zephyr 14, and Fly 16, commanded in the Downs by Capts. Fras. Geo. Dickins and Manley Hall Dixon – 8 May, 1813, to the Impress service at Waterford, where, and at Cork, he served until the following Dec. – and, 31 Jan. 1818, to the command of the Lynx Revenue-cutter. Commander Edwards, who has been on half-pay since 1821, assumed the rank he now holds 16 Jan. 1840.
He married, 13 Jan. 1812, Maria, second daughter of John Pitt, Esq., and sister of Lieuts. Wm. and Henry Pitt, of the R.N. and R.M.
EDWIN. (Commander, 1835. f-p., 22; h-p., 15.)
Felix Edwin entered the Navy, 12 Aug. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Donegal 74, Capt. Pulteney Malcolm; under whom, on 15 Nov. in the same year, we find him assisting in an attack made by Capt. Chas. Grant, of the Diana, on the two French frigates Amazone and Eliza, protected by the fire of several strong batteries, near Cherbourg. After serving for some time in the Boyne 98, flagship of Sir Harry Burrard Neale, Royal Oak 74, Capt. P. Malcolm, and San Josef 110, Capt. Robt. Jackson, he became Midshipman, in Oct. 1813, of the Comet 16, Capt. Geo. Wm. Blamey, on the Newfoundland station. Until Feb. 1821 he next, in succession, joined, on the Channel, St. Helena, Portsmouth, African, and American stations, the Leven 20, Capt. Buckland Stirling Bluett, Phaeton 46, Capt. Fras. Stanfell, Rochfort 80, Capt. Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson, Tartar 42, Commodore Sir Geo. Ralph Collier, Euryalus 42, Commodore Thos. Huskisson, Sophie 18, Capt. Sir Wm. Saltonstall Wiseman, and Tartar again, commanded as before. He then, having been a long time employed as Admiralty-Midshipman, became Acting-Lieutenant of the Myrmidon 20, Capt. Henry John Leeke, to which vessel he was ultimately confirmed, on 30 Aug. in the same year, 1821, nearly five years after he had passed his examination. Leaving the Myrmidon in Feb. 1822, Mr. Edwin, on 10 Oct. 1832, was next appointed to the Coast Guard. As an especial reward for his “gallant and intrepid conduct,” in an affray with a band of smugglers, on the night of 12 July, 1834, he was promoted to the rank of Commander, by commission dated 4 Feb. 1835. From 22 Sept. 1835 until 10 Oct. 1838, and from 5 July, 1840, until 1845, we afterwards find him employed in the same service as an Inspecting-Commander. He has since been on half-pay.
This officer, who is Senior Commander of 1833, married, 16 April, 1834, Marianne, only daughter of John Joseph Atherton, Esq., of Walton Hall, co. Lincoln, and of Street Court, co. Hereford, by whom he has issue two sons.
EDYE. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Adolphus George Edye is nephew of John Edye, Esq., F.R.S., Chief Assistant and Draughtsman to the Surveyor of the Navy. This officer entered the Navy 29 May, 1829; passed his examination 2 June, 1835; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant while serving, off the coast of Ireland, in the Lucifer surveying-steamer, Capt. Fred. Wm. Beechey, 30 Aug. 1841. He continued in that vessel until 1843; and, from 4 April, 1845, until the close of 1846, was similarly employed in the Tartarus, Capt. Jas. Wolfe. He married, 30 July, 1844, Elizabeth, daughter of the late Thos. Edye, Esq., Lieut. R.N.
EGERTON. (Commander, 1846.)
Charles Randle Egerton, born 12 May, 1818, is youngest son of Wilbraham Egerton, Esq., of Tatton Park, co. Chester, by Elizabeth, second daughter of Sir Christopher Sykes, Bart., of Sledmere House, co. York. His eldest brother, Wm. Tatton, M.P. for Cheshire, is brother-in-law of the present Marquess of Ely; and another, Wilbraham, is a Captain in the 43rd Light Infantry.
This officer entered the Navy 19 May, 1831; passed his examination in 1837; and ultimately be-
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, pp. 1281-23.
