Charles John Austen R.N.
Charles John Austen R.N.
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Charles John Austen R.N. | Explanation |
Son of Reverend George Austen (and brother of the novelist, Jane Austen) |
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Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal |
13 June 1779 | | Born (Bath, Somerset, England) |
19 May 1807 | | Married, firstly, Frances Fitzwilliam (1790-1814) , youngest daughter of John Grove Palmer (1745-1832), Attorney-General of Bermuda |
7 August 1820 | | Married, secondly, Harrier Ebel Palmer (1786-1867), elder sister of his first wife |
1840 | | C.B. (Companion of the Bath), for service during the bombardment of St Jean d'Acre on 3 November 1840 |
7 October 1852 | | Died (Prome, Burma, in command of the British expedition during the Second Anglo-Burmese War ) |
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Date | Rank |
13 December 1797 | Lieutenant |
10 October 1804 | Commander |
10 May 1810 | Captain |
9 November 1846 | Rear-Admiral |
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Date from | Date to | Service |
13 December 1797 | | Lieutenant in Scorpion |
December 1798 | | Lieutenant in Tamar |
16 February 1799 | | Lieutenant in Endymion, until ship paid off at the peace |
April 1803 | | Lieutenant in Endymion again |
10 October 1804 | 1809 | Commander in Indian (1804, sloop), on the North American station |
10 May 1810 | | Captain in Swiftsure |
25 September 1810 | | Captain in Cleopatra (1779, fifth rate) |
20 November 1811 | 30 September 1814 | Captain in Namur (1756, second rate), the Nore |
September 1814 | 20 February 1816 | Captain in Phoenix (1783, fifth rate), until the vessel was wrecked during a hurricane near Smyrna, due to the ignorance of her pilots |
2 June 1826 | December 1828 | Captain in Aurora, second in command on the Jamaica station |
1828 | December 1830 | Captain in Winchester, flagship of Edward Griffith Colpoys, until invalided |
14 April 1838 | June 1841 | Captain in Bellerophon, Mediterranean (including operations on the coast of Syria in 1840) |
14 January 1850 | 7 October 1852 | Commander-in-chief, East Indies and China (until de died, off Prome in the River Irrawaddi, during the second Anglo-Burmese war), flag in Hastings |