Harry Edmond Edgell obituary

Royal Navy obituary in the Times newspaper

The following obituary for Harry Edmond Edgell appeared in the Times newspaper.

*Obituary in the Times* newspaper**
Date	Obituary
14 February 1876	Vice-Admiral Harry Edmund Edgell, C.B., died on the 4th inst., aged 66. He was the only son of the late Rear-Admiral Edgell, was educated at the Royal Naval College, and embarked in 1823 as a volunteer. After serving for nearly three years as midshipman and mate on the Northwest, India, Home, and Mediterranean Stations, he was promoted to the rank of Lieut. In June, 1828. In July, 1831, he was appointed to the Imogene, 28, Capt. Price Hamilton, and served in China; he assisted in forcing the passage of the Boca Tigris in 1834, when he received two contusions on the left leg and arm. He afterwards served in the Rodney, 92, Capt. Hyde Parker. He subsequently commanded the Siren, 16, on the Mediterranean Station. He had received the thanks of the Trustees of the British Museum for removing the sculptured remains of the Tomb of Mausolus, now named the Canning marbles, from the Castle of Boodroom, in Asia Minor. He became Rear-Admiral (on the Retired List) in 1864, and Vice-Admiral in 1871. He had been a Companion of the Order of the Bath since 1859, and had been in receipt of a Greenwich Hospital pension since 1866.