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Browse officers in command: A - B; C - E; F - G; H - K; L - O; P - R; S - T; U - Z; ??
| Edward Belcher R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Son of Andrew Belcher (1763-1841) | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 27 February 1793 | Born (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | ||
| 11 September 1830 | Married Diana Jolliffe (1803-1890), stepdaughter of Captain Peter Heywood R.N. (1773-1831), that marriage ending upon her application for legal separation for his having infected her with venereal disease | ||
| 6 May 1841 | C.B. (Companion of the Bath), for service in the first Anglo-Chinese war | ||
| 1843 | Wrote 'Narrative of a Voyage round the World, performed in H.M.S. Sulphur, during the years 1836-42'. | ||
| 13 March 1867 | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath). | ||
| 18 March 1877 | Died (London) | ||
| Entry in O'Byrnes 1849 'Naval Biographical Dictionary' | |||
Entry in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography | |||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 21 July 1818 | Lieutenant | ||
| 16 March 1829 | Commander | ||
| 6 May 1841 | Captain | ||
| 11 February 1861 | Rear-Admiral | ||
| 2 April 1866 | Vice-Admiral | ||
| 1866 | Retired Vice-Admiral | ||
| 20 October 1872 | Retired Admiral | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 27 May 1830 | 10 September 1833 | Commander in Aetna, surveying off the west coast of Africa (including the Arguin shoals on which the French frigate Meduse was wrecked, then (end of 1832) in the River Douro as part of the British squadron under William Glascock (Orestes) during the Portuguese civil war, then (1833) surveying in the Mediterranean | |
| 31 March 1835 | 5 May 1835 | Commander in Meteor | |
| 6 May 1835 | 24 November 1835 | Commander in Carron | |
| 4 January 1836 | 24 March 1836 | Commander in Terror | |
| 12 November 1836 | 2 August 1842 | Commander in Sulphur, west coast of North and South America, later East Indies (including the first Anglo-Chinese war) | |
| 18 November 1842 | 18 January 1847 | Captain in Samarang (until paying off at Sheerness), surveying in the South China Sea | |
| 10 February 1852 | 25 August 1854 | Captain in Assistance, particular service: searching, together with Pioneer (Sherard Osborn, tender to Assistance), Resolute (Henry Kellett) and Intrepid ( McClintock, tender to Resolute) for Sir John Franklins' ill-fated 1845 North-West Passage expedition, until abandoned at Bathurst Island | |
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