Charles Gepp Robinson obituary

Royal Navy obituary in the Times newspaper

The following obituary for Charles Gepp Robinson appeared in the Times newspaper.

*Obituary in the Times* newspaper**
Date	Obituary
10 November 1875	Vice-Admiral Charles Gepp Robinson, who died at 30, Blomfield-terrace West, on the 31st ult., in his 72d year, was born at Appledore-house, Devon, and entered the Navy in 1819, on board the Hasty, on the North Sea station/ From 1821 until 1826 he was employed in the Leven, 24, Capt. William F. Owen, on a survey of the East and West Coast of Africa. He was one of the very few in the expedition who ever returned to England. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1826, and in the course of the following year he again, in the Eden, 26, sailed with Capt. Owen for the coast of Africa for the purpose of forming a settlement at Fernando Po, in the Bight of Biafra, where every gun-room officer but himself fell a victim to the climate. While on this service he was chiefly employed in a tender in cruising after slavers — three vessels of which description he succeeded in capturing. The "prompt zeal" he displayed on one occasion in proceeding to sea under peculiar circumstances in the Horatio schooner had the effect of procuring him, in 1828, the thanks of the Government of Sierra Leone. From 1829 until 1856 he was employed almost uninterruptedly in the Surveying Department, principally on the coasts of Wales and Scotland, and in the Mediterranean. He attained post rank in 1846, became Rear-Admiral in 1864 and Vice-Admiral in 1871.