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The following obituary for Joseph Grant Bickford appeared in the Times newspaper.
| Obituary in the Times newspaper | |
| Date | Obituary |
| 14 September 1886 | Vice-Admiral Joseph Grant Bickford died on the 6th inst. at Sea View, Par Station, Cornwall. He entered the Navy in 1828, attained the rank of lieutenant in 1841, and was successively employed in that capacity on board the Queen and the Rodney both in the Mediterranean; the Iris and the Cambrian, in the East Indies and on the coast of China; the Retribution and the Vengeance, chiefly on the Mediterranean and Lisbon stations; and the Cumberland in North America and the West Indies. As commander, to which rank he was promoted in 1852, his appointments were to the Albion, in the Mediterranean; to his former ship, the Cumberland, employed as before; to the Princess Royal, to the Coastguard at Whitby; and to the Victory at Portsmouth. In the Princess Royal, Commander Bickford took an active part in the Black Sea campaign of 1855. He was one of the commanders employed under Sir Thomas Pasley at the landing of the troops in the attack upon Kertch. He was warmly engaged with the sea defences of Sebastopol on the eve of the unsuccessful assault of the 18th of June on the Malakoff and Redan and he was the second senior commander present at the bombardment of Kinburn. He obtained a captaincy in 1860, and became a retired rear-admiral in 1876. Admiral Bickford, who was a Knight of the Legion of Honour and of the Medjidie (5th class), married, in 1853, Harriet Codrington, only daughter of Mr. Codrington Parr, of Stonelands, Dawlish, Devon. |
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