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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Burdwood, Thomas

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​BURDWOOD. (Retired Commander, 1844. f-p., 27; h-p., 24.)
Thomas Burdwood entered the Navy, 1 Oct. 1796, as A.B., on board the Raisonnable 64, Capts. Chas. Boyles and John Dilkes; attained the rating of Midshipman in Dec. following; and, after intermediately visiting the Cape of Good Hope, was present, 2 April, 1801, as Master’s Mate, in the battle off Copenhagen, on which occasion he was part of the time employed in an armed launch, and also on board the Elephant, Lord Nelson’s flagship. Between 30 April, 1802 (in Nov. of which year he passed his examination), and 8 Feb. 1805, Mr. Burdwood jouied in succession the Venture 8 Lieut.-Commander Robt. Jump, Galatea and Aigle frigates, both commanded by Capt. Geo. Wolfe, and Prince 98, Capt. Rich. Grindall, all on the Home station. He then became Sub-Lieutenant of the Milbrook schooner, Lieut.-Commanders John Cook Carpenter and Jas. Leach, employed off the coasts of Spain and Portugal; was promoted to a full Lieutenancy 29 Sept. 1807, in the Neptune 98, Capt. Sir Thos. Williams, in which ship he sailed for the West Indies; and, on 28 Nov. 1808, joined the Belleisle 74, Capts. Edw. Woolcombe, Wm. Chas. Fahie, and Geo. Cockburn. In the course of the following year he assisted at the capture of Martinique, and rendered valuable service, in command of a gun-boat, at the reduction of Flushing. His ensuing appointments were – 14 Sept. 1809, to the Achilles 74, Capt. Sir Rich. King, off Cherbourg – 11 Dec. in the same year, to the Recruit 18, Capts. Jas. Murray and Humphrey Fleming Senhouse, on the Newfoundland station – and, 20 Feb. 1811, and 6 Jan. 1812, to the command of the Princess Sophia-Frederica and Kron-Princessinn Maria prison-ships at Portsmouth. Lieut. Burdwood was next, on 7 Sept. 1814, nominated Agent for Transports Afloat, in which capacity he attended the expedition to New Orleans. He afterwards remained unemployed from 8 Nov. 1815, until 18 July, 1823, and then, rejoining the Transport service, continued in it (with one interval, from Dec. 1829, to May, 1831) until 19 July, 1832, when he again went on half-pay. He accepted his present rank 15 April, 1844.
Commander Burdwood is married, and has issue six children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bunbury, George Benjamin

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​BUNBURY. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
George Benjamin Bunbury is third son of the late Thos. Bunbury Isaac, Esq., of Holywood House, co. Down.
This officer entered the Navy 14 Aug. 1812; passed his examination in 1818; obtained his commission 1 July, 1825; was afterwards appointed, 31 ​March, 1829, and 19 Feb. 1830, a Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies and Talavera 74’s, Capt. Hugh Pigot, lying in the Downs for the purposes of the Coast Blockade; next joined, 25 July, 1831, the Ganges 84, Capt. Geo. Burdett, in the Mediterranean; and, in Feb. 1832, was paid off. He has not since been employed.
He married, 3 Oct. 1836, Elizabeth, only child of Edwin Reeves, Esq., of Bath.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bunce, Benjamin Holland

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​BUNCE. (Lieutenant, 1838.)
Benjamin Holland Bunce passed his examination in 1831; obtained his commission 28 June, 1838; was appointed, 27 Aug. in the same year, to the Rover 18, Capts. Thos. Matthew Chas. Symonds and Chas. Keele, of which vessel, stationed in North America and the West Indies, he afterwards became First-Lieutenant; and from April, 1843, until Jan. 1847, served, in the same capacity, on board the Tyne 26, Capt. Wm. Nugent Glascock, in the Mediterranean. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Burbidge, William Cave

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​BURBIDGE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 14; h-p., 39.)
William Cave Burbidge was born 30 March, 1789, at Market Harborough, co. Leicester.
This officer entered the Navy, in Feb. 1794, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Alfred 74, Capt. John Bazely, one of the Victorious fleet on the memorable 1st of June. In Nov. 1794, he accompanied the same officer into the Blenheim 74, and, after sharing with him in Admiral Hotham’s partial engagement with the French fleet off Hyeres, 13 July, 1795, when the Alcide 74 was captured from the enemy, took part, under his successor, Capt. Thos. Lennox Frederick, in the battle off Cape St. Vincent, 14 Feb. 1797. He returned home in the following Nov. in the San Josef 110, and was paid off; but he did not resume active service until 1 Jan. 1807, when he joined the Nassau 64, Capt. Robt. Campbell. In that ship he attended the ensuing expedition to Copenhagen, where he received a severe uncompensated wound in the head, and (on the Nassau’s hard-wrought extrication from a mass of ice in which she had been blocked up during the winter) he was present, 22 March, 1808, in company with the Stately 64, at the capture and destruction, on the coast of Zealand, of the Danish 74, Prindts Christian-Frederic, after a running fight of great length and obstinacy, in which the Nassau suffered a loss of 9 men killed and 16 wounded. Between Nov. 1809, and Dec. 1810, Mr. Burbidge next served, off Cherbourg and in the Gulf of Finland, as Master’s Mate of the Owen Glendower 36, and Stately 64, Capts. Wm. Selby and Robt. Campbell. He was then transferred with the latter officer, in the same capacity, to the Tremendous 74, flag-ship afterwards of Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, in which he continued to be employed on the Home and Mediterranean stations until April, 1815. During that period he served in a battery at the reduction of Trieste in 1813, and, pending the siege of Venice, was much engaged with the flotilla at the mouths of the Po. Having passed his examination 10 Feb. 1812, Mr. Burbidge received, on leaving the Tremendous, a commission, dated back to 28 Feb. 1815, appointing him to the Alcmene 38, Capt. Jeremiah Coghlan, from which frigate he was paid off in Nov. following. For his conduct, in Oct. 1822, in saving H.M. cutter Vigilant and all ​her crew, when ashore on the rocks in the Bay of Douglas, Isle of Man, Lieut. Burbidge was appointed by the Admiralty, 25 Jan. 1823, to the Coast Guard. He was superseded from the Coast Blockade, to which he had been removed, in 1824; and was afterwards appointed, 14 June, 1834, and 28 Feb. 1837, for brief terms, first, to the command of the Buzzard brigantine, on the coast of Africa, and then, as Third-Lieutenant, to the Victory 104, bearing the flag of the Admiral Superintendent at Portsmouth, Sir Fred. Lewis Maitland. He is at present on half-pay.
Lieut. Burbidge, who has been twice married, has a son by his former, and a daughter by his present, wife. Agent – J. Woodhead.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bunbury, Richard Hanmer

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​BUNBURY. (Commander, 1839 f-p., 12; h-p., 8.)
Richard Hanmer Bunbury, born in Dec. 1813, is fourth son of Lieut.-General Sir Henry Edw. Bunbury, Bart., K.C.B., late Under-Secretary of State for the War Department, by his first wife, Louisa Emilia, daughter of General Hon. Henry Edw. Fox.
This officer entered the Navy 23 Jan. 1827; passed his examination in 1833; and obtained his first commission 31 July, 1833. He was afterwards appointed – 14 Oct. in the same year, to the Thunderer 84, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise, in the Mediterranean – 15 March, 1837, to the Minden 74, Capt. Alex. Renton Sharpe, off Lisbon – 29 Aug. 1837, to the Victory 104, as Acting Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, Superintendent at Portsmouth – 9 Dec. 1837, to the Princess Charlotte 104, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford – and 20 Jan. and 27 July, 1838, to the Castor 36, Capt. Edw. Collier, and Asia 84, Capt. Wm. Fisher, both on the latter station, where he was advanced to the rank he now holds 10 May, 1839. He has not since been afloat.
Commander Bunbury, who at present superintends the Police at Melbourn, Port Philip, married, 19 Dec. 1838, Sarah, daughter of Rich. Sconce, Esq., and has issue. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Burch, Isaac

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​BURCH. (Lieutenant, 1814. f-p., 13; h-p., 31.)
Isaac Burch (b) is only son of the late Isaac Burch, Esq., of Exmouth, Lieutenant R.N. (1800.)
This officer entered the Navy, 14 July, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Royal Sovereign 100, Capts. Rich. Curry and Pulteney Malcolm, stationed in the Channel; attained the rating of Midshipman in Aug. of the same year; and afterwards accompanied Capt. Malcolm into the Kent and Renown 74’s. In May, 1805, he became attached, with Sir Rich. John Strachan, to the Caesar 80, and, on 4 Nov. following, he assisted at the capture of four French line-of-battle ships, escaped from Trafalgar; after which he visited the Chesapeake in pursuit of a squadron under M. Willaumez. We subsequently, in 1809, find him present, in the same ship, under Capt. Chas. Richardson, at the reduction of three heavy French frigates under the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, as also of the shipping in Basque Roads, and in the expedition to Flushing; and, under Capt. Wm. Granger, serving off Lisbon in 1810. On 12 Aug. in the latter year he rejoined Sir R. J. Strachan in the St. Domingo 74, employed in the North Sea, and, on afterwards proceeding to North America with the flag of Sir John Borlase Warren, he commanded one of that ship’s boats at the capture of three privateers in the Rappahannock river, and in the attack on Craney Island, Hampton. Mr. Burch, who had passed in 1810, was next appointed, 20 Nov. 1813, Acting-Lieutenant of the Thistle 12, Capts. Jas. Kearny White and Jas. Montagu, in which vessel he remained until Jan. 1814, when he was confirmed into La Nymphe 38, Capt. Hugh Pigot, by commission ante-dated to 11 June, 1814. While in the Thistle he took an active part in all the boat and other operations in the Chesapeake, including those against Washington and Baltimore, and also attended the expedition to New Orleans. He haa been on half-pay since 23 Aug. 1815.
Lieut. Burch married Mary, youngest daughter of the late Chas. Hutton Jarvoise, Esq., of Exeter.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bunn, Thomas

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​BUNN. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 31.)
Thomas Bunn entered the Navy, 23 Oct. 1805, as A.B., on board the Pegasus 28, Capt. John Pengelly, stationed in the North Sea; removed, as Midshipman, in July, 1806, to the Shannon 38, Capt. Philip Bowes Vere Broke, lying at Sheerness; and, on subsequently joining the Ferreter 12, Lieut.Commander Henry Weir, was captured, on the night of 31 March, 1807, by seven Dutch gun-boats, after a sanguinary resistance, and carried into the river Ems. Soon afterwards, on regaining his liberty, he became attached to the Namur 74, Capt. Lawrence Wm. Halsted, and from July in the same year, 1807, until June, 1815, he served with the late Sir Geo. Burlton, in the Resolution 74, Rodney 74, Ville de Paris 110, Boyne 98, and also in the Cornwallis 74, in which ship that officer hoisted his flag as Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies. While in the Resolution Mr. Bunn attended the expedition to Copenhagen, in Aug. and Sept. 1807, and was with the force under Lord Gambier at the destruction of the French shipping in Aix Roads, in April, 1809. In the Boyne he took part, 5 Nov. 1813, and 13 Feb. 1814, in Sir Edw. Pellew’s skirmishes with the Toulon fleet. Obtaining a commission 4 Feb. 1815, he next, in 1815-16, served as temporary Lieutenant of the Owen Glendower 36, Capt. Brian Hodgson. He has since been on half-pay. Agent – J. Woodhead.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Burdon, Richard Mathews

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​BURDON. (Lieutenant, 1832.)
Richard Mathews Burdon entered the Navy 19 May, 1823; passed his examination in 1829; obtained his commission 11 Aug. 1832; joined, 20 Jan. 1834, the Thunderer 84, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise, on the Mediterranean station; was superseded in the following July; and has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Browell, Langton

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​BROWELL. (Commander, 1845. f-p., 18; h-p., 9.)
Langton Browell, born 26 July, 1806, is son of the late Hen. Browell, Esq., of the Lord ChamberIain’s Office; grandson of Wm. M. Browell, Esq., who served as Midshipman of the Centurion under Lord Anson in his voyage round the world; and nephew of the late Capt. Wm. Browell, R.N., Lieut.-Governor of Greenwich Hospital, also of the late Capt. Herbert Browell, B.N., who died in command of the Brunswick 74, and of the present Jas. Browell, Esq., Purser and Paymaster, R.N.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 5 April, 1820, and embarked, 21 March, 1822, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Hind 20, Capts. Hon. Hen. John Rous and Lord Hen. John Spencer Churchill, stationed in the Mediterranean, where he continued, part of the time as Midshipman, until he returned to England, and was paid off, in Aug. 1825. He then joined the Rainbow 28, commanded by Capt. Rous, on the East India station; passed his examination in May, 1826; and, after a further attachment, as Acting-Lieutenant, to the Hind, Capt. John Furneaux, was confirmed into the Cyrené 20, Capt. Alex. Campbell, 17 March, 1828. He immediately afterwards came home with the latter officer in the Bombay, a new 84, recently launched; and subsequently served – from March, 1830, to Jan. 183-1, in the Nautilus 10, Capt. Lord Geo. Paulet, off the coasts of Ireland, Portugal, and Spain – from June following until June, 1838, in the Winchester 52, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Bladen Capel in the East Indies – and, from Sept. 1841, until he invalided in Sept. 1842, as First, in the Vixen steam-vessel, Capt. Hen. Boyes, attached to the force in China. He joined, 10 Aug. 1844, the Victoria and Albert yacht, Capt. Lord Adolphus FitzClarence; but, since his promotion to the rank of Commander, 25 Sept. 1845, has been unemployed.
He married, 20 Feb. 1840, Mary Anne, eldest daughter of Capt. Leigh Lye, who served throughout the Peninsular War and at Waterloo in the 11th Light Dragoons, and niece of Rear-Admiral Lye.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Broun, George

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​BROUN. (Commander, 1835.)
George Broun obtained his first commission 1 Nov. 1815; and was appointed, about the same period, to the Portia 14, Capt. Silas Thompson Hood, which vessel was paid off in 1816. He afterwards joined, as First-Lieutenant, 12 Sept. 1826, the Ringdove 18, Capt. Edw. Le Cras Thornbrough, at Halifax; 5 May, 1827, the Hussar 46, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Ogle, on the same station; and, 3 Nov. 1830, the Undaunted 46, Capt. Edw. Harvey, employed at the Cape of Good Hope and in the East Indies. He returned to England and was paid off early in 1834; obtained a Commander’s commission 23 March, 1835; was appointed, 26 Sept. 1836, to the Coast Guard, in which service he remained during the customary period of three years; and, since 7 Nov. 1845, has been employed as Second Captain of the St. Vincent 120, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Ogle at Portsmouth.
He married, 12 Sept. 1837, Fanny Charlotte, eldest daughter of Lieut.-General Granby Clay, of Baring Crescent, Exeter. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Brouncker, John Payne

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​BROUNCKER. (Lieut., 1829. f-p.,32; h-p., 6.)
John Payne Brouncker entered the Navy, 21 Sept. 1809, as Midshipman, on board the Désirée 36, Capt. Arth. Farquhar, to which frigate he continued attached, principally on the North Sea station, until April, 1814. During that period he served in the boats under Lieut. Sam. Radford at the cutting out of two French vessels, carrying together 16 guns and 59 men, and destruction of a third, a lugger of 6 guns and 26 men, lying in the Vlie, 29 May, 1810, and was lent, in 1813, to No. 7 gun-boat, one of a light squadron employed under Capt. Farquhar in blockading the North Elbe, where he took part in the reduction of Cuxhaven, in the attack also on the Danish flotilla at Busum, on which occasion two of the enemy’s gun-vessels were sunk, and, as a Volunteer, in the erection of batteries at the siege of Gluckstadt, where he was so severely frost-bitten as nearly to lose a leg. Mr. Brouncker, who passed his examination in 1818, subsequently served for 11 years, as Mate, on the Mediterranean and East India stations. He was seriously injured in the face in the early part of 1829, while in charge of a tender to the Prince Regent 120, flag-ship at the Nore of Sir Hen. Blackwood; and, on the recommendation of that officer, he was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant 26 Feb. in the same year. He has been in the Coast Guard since 7 Oct. 1833.
Lieut. Brouncker is married, and has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Brown, Alexander

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​BROWN. (Lieut., 1822. f-p., 24; h-p., 11.)
Alexander Brown is son of J. O. Brown, Esq., of Edinburgh, by Agnes, daughter of Chas. Campbell, Esq., of Lochdochart.
This officer entered the Navy, 11 Dec. 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Satellite 16, Capt. John Porteous, with whom he served in the Brazils and West Indies until Aug. 1814. He then removed to the Venerable 74, flag-ship of Sir Philip Durham, and next to the Oberon 14, and Sparrowhawk 16, Capts. Jas. Murray and Fred. Wm. Burgoyne, on the Leith station; became Midshipman, in Feb. 1815, of the Clio 16, Capt. Wm. Farington; re-joined Capt. Murray, in Sept. of the same year, in the Satellite, at Portsmouth; served, from Nov. following until May, 1819, in the Hyacinth 24, Capt. Alex. Renton Sharpe, and Amphion 32, Commodore Wm. Bowles and Capt. Wm. Bateman Dashwood, on the Brazilian station; and was attached, as Master’s Mate, from Jan. 1820 until Nov. 1822, to the Egeria 28, Capt. John Toup Nicolas, Clinker gun-brig, Lieut. -Commanders Wm. Martin, Jas. Rich. Booth, and John Eagar, and Valorous 26, Capt. Jas. Murray, employed off Newfoundland, whence he returned home with the Governor, Vice-Admiral Sir Chas. Hamilton. Mr. Brown, who was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant on 14 of the last-mentioned month, continued in the Valorous, engaged on Particular Service in the West Indies, until placed out of commission in the summer of 1824. His next appointment was, 26 Oct. 1825, to the Fly sloop, Capt. Fred. Augustus Wetherall, in the East Indies, where he was transferred, in 1828, to the Bombay, a new 84, just launched, Capt. Alex. Campbell, to assist in bringing her to England. He was paid off in the ensuing Oct., and was afterwards employed in the Coast Guard from 8 March, 1834, until 3 Dec. 1813. He has since been on half-pay.
​Lieut. Brown married, 28 July, 1838, Honor, youngest daughter of Sir Rich. Burton, Kt., of Sackett’s Hill House, Isle of Thanet, and has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Broughton, John

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​BROUGHTON. (Retired Commander, 1831. f-p., 32; h-p., 32.)
John Broughton entered the Navy, in 1783, as a Boy, on board the Irresistible 74, Capts. Sir Andrew Snape Hamond and Geo. Bowyer, and in 1787 joined the Sandwich, Capt. Tompkins, both guard-ships at Chatham. From June, 1793, to Feb. 1797, he served in the Polyphemus 64, Capt. Geo. Lumsdaine, and Penelope cutter, Lieut.-Commander Daniel Burdwood, on the Irish, Mediterranean, and West India stations, and was in the former ship when she took possession of the Dutch 64, Overyssel, 22 Oct. 1795. He then became Midshipman of the Kingston schooner, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Ross, and afterwards Master’s Mate of the Mermaid, of 40 guns and 208 men, and Loire 38, both commanded in the Channel by Capt. Jas. Newman Newman. While in the Mermaid Mr. Broughton assisted, 31 Dec. 1797, at the capture of L’Aventure privateer, of 12 guns – witnessed, 30 June, 1798, the surrender of the 40-gun frigate La Seine to the Jason and Pique – and, on 17 Oct. following, took part in a gallant action of two hours and a half with the French frigate Loire, of 46 guns and 330 men, which terminated in the separation of the combatants, each being greatly disabled. In the Loire Mr. Broughton was present, 6 Feb. 1800, at the capture, in company with the Danae 20, and Fairy, Harpy, and Railleur sloops, of the French 38-gun frigate Pallas, under the heavy fire of a battery on one of the Seven Islands. In March, 1801, he was appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the Fairy sloop, Capt. Fred. Warren, on the West India station, where, after a further servitude as Master’s Mate in the Leviathan 74, bearing the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth, he was officially promoted to the command of the Staunch gun-brig, 1 Aug. 1801. He left that vessel in Feb. 1803, and was afterwards appointed – in March, 1804, to the Sea Fencibles, at Kilrush, in Ireland – 6 Nov. following, to the Gorgon 44, Capts. Wm. Wilkinson, Fras. Stanfell, and Wm. B. Ryder, employed on the river Shannon – 1 Aug. 1806, to the Ardent 64, Capt. Geo. Eyre, at Chatham – 10 Sept. in the same year, to the Challenger 18, Capt. Wm. B. Ryder, lying in the Downs – 15 Dec. 1807, to the Impress Service, at Fareham, in Hampshire – and, 26 July, 1811, to the command of a Signal Station at Whitelands, near Lyme Regis. Commander Broughton, who had been on half-pay since April, 1815, accepted his present rank 1 Nov. 1831.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Brown, Charles Foreman

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​BROWN. (Commander, 1841.)
Charles Foreman Brown is eldest son of the late Rear-Admiral Wm. Brown, who, after filling the office of Commissioner of Malta and Sheerness Dockyards, died Commander-in-Chief at Jamaica in 1816; uncle, through his eldest sister, of the present Sir Geo. Fras. Hampson, Bart.; and first cousin of Commander W. C. Browne, R.N. This officer entered the Navy 3 June, 1819; passed his examination in 1825; obtained his first commission 17 April, 1827; and was subsequently appointed – 1 Sept. 1829, to the Rapid 10, Capt. Chas. Hen. Swinburne, in the Mediterranean – 24 Jan. 1832, as First-Lieutenant, to the Victor 18, Capt. Robt. Russell, on the West India station, whence he soon afterwards returned to England – 30 May, 1836, to the Asia 84, Capt. Wm. Fisher, in which ship he sailed for the Mediterranean – 27 July, 1838, again as Senior, to the Castor 36, Capt. Edw. Collier, on the same station – and, 23 Nov. 1839, and 1 Oct. 1840, to the Britannia and Queen, first-rates, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Edw. Codrington at Portsmouth. He was promoted from the last-mentioned ship to his present rank 11 Aug. 1841; and has since – except from 28 March to 6 Sept. 1844, when he held command of the Wolverene 16 – been unemployed.
Commander Brown married, 4 May, 1842, Elizabeth Jane, eldest daughter of John Hawkins, Esq., of Byelands.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Brown, Edwin Langford

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​BROWN. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Edwin Langford Brown passed his examination 24 Dec. 1836; and served for several years, as Mate, in the Mediterranean and East Indies, of the Benbow 72, and Spiteful steam-sloop, Capts. Houston Stewart and Wm. Maitland. He obtained his commission 8 Aug. 1845; and, until the early part of 1846, was next employed, as Additional-Lieutenant, in the Agincourt 72, flag-ship of Sir Thos. John Cochrane on the station last named.