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EDMUNDS—EDRIDGE—EDWARDES—EDWARDS. his present rank 23 Nov. 1841; and has been employed, since 6 April, 1844, as an Inspecting Commander in the Coast Guard.

Commander Edmonstone married, 13 July, 1841, Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Lieut.-Col. T. W. Parsons, Resident of the Island of Zante.

 EDMUNDS. 

entered the Navy, 19 Dec. 1813, as Fst.-cl.. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Augustus Brine, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Tyler at the Cape of Good Hope, where he served until 1816. Re-embarking, in Dec. 1818, on board the 24, Capts. Hon. Valentine Gardner and Geo. Cornish Gambier, he sailed for India. On his return home, towards the close of 1823, he successively joined, as Mate, the 100, and  104, flag-ships at Portsmouth of Sir Jas. Hawkins Whitshed and Sir Geo. Martin, the yacht, Capt. Henry John Leeke, and  frigate, Capt. Sam. Chambers. He was officially promoted, while serving as Acting-Lieutenant of the receiving-ship at Jamaica, Capt. Wm. Molyneux, by commission dated 26 Oct. 1826, and was afterwards appointed – 2 June, 1828, 24 Sept. 1829, and 11 May, 1831, to the 74,  74, and  50, all commanded by Capt. Hugh Pigot, on the Downs and Mediterranean stations – 4 Oct. 1834, to the  50, in which ship he served for nearly four years under the flag of Hon. Sir Thos. Bladen Capel, Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies – and, 22 Aug. 1840, as First-Lieutenant, to the 84, Capt. Sir Sam. Roberts, stationed in the Mediterranean. He rose to the rank he now holds 23 Nov. 1841; and, since 29 Aug. 1845, has been in command of the sloop, on the coast of Africa.

 EDRIDGE. 

obtained his commission 23 Oct. 1810; and since the peace has been on half-pay.

 EDWARDES. 

, born 3 Feb. 1801, is eldest surviving son of Lord Kensington, by Dorothy, daughter of Rich. Thomas, Esq.; and brother-in-law of Sir Edw. Cholmeley Dering, Bart.

This officer entered the Navy, 13 Feb. 1814, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Edw. Hawker, flag-ship at Newfoundland of Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats; served afterwards, as Midshipman of 11 different men-of-war, chiefly on the Mediterranean station; and obtained his first commission 2 Aug. 1823. He was appointed, 6 Oct. 1826, to the 84, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Codrington in the Mediterranean, and, for his conduct at the battle of Navarin, was invested on the following day, 21 Oct. 1827, with the acting-command of the 18. He returned to England in 1828, having been confirmed to the rank of Commander by commission dated 22 Oct. 1827; and has not since been employed.

He married, 12 Oct. 1833, Laura Jane, fourth daughter of Cuthbert Ellison, Esq., of Hepburn, co. Durham, and has issue two sons and five daughters. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 EDWARDS. 

entered the Navy, 6 Nov. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Chas. Boyles; on accompanying Whom into the 98, he bore a part in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, 22 July, 1805, witnessed Sir Sam. Hood’s capture of four French frigates near Rochefort, 25 Sept. 1806, and passed the Dardanells in Feb. 1807. Shortly after his removal to the, of 42 guns and 261 men, Capt. Mich. Seymour, he assisted at the capture, 11 Nov. 1808, off L’Orient, of the French frigate, of 44 guns and 436 men, including soldiers, which was boarded and carried at the close of a furious contest of more than three hours, in which the British lost 19 men killed and 51 wounded, and the enemy 135 killed and 102 wounded. On 6 April, 1809, he also shared in a severe intermittent action of about four hours, which terminated in the capture, with a loss to the of 8 men killed and 37 wounded, of another of the enemy’s frigates,, of 46 guns and 339 men, of whom 47 were slain and 73 wounded. After attending the expedition to Flushing, Mr. Edwards followed Capt. Seymour, in Sept. 1809, into his prize, the, which had been added to the British Navy as a 38-gun frigate. With the exception of about two months, from April to June 1811, during which we find him officiating as Acting-Lieutenant of the 18, Capt. Henry Gage Morris, he continued to serve with Capt. Seymour, latterly in the  74, on the Home station, until 1812. He obtained his commission 13 March, 1815; and since 10 March, 1835, has been employed in the Coast Guard.

 EDWARDS. 

entered the Navy, 31 July, 1795, as a Volunteer, on board the of 42 guns, Capts. Sir Harry Burrard Neale and Wm. Chas. Paterson. While in that ship, besides being much in attendance on the King off Weymouth, he assisted, in company with, at the capture of La Résistance of 48, and La Constance of 24 guns, 9 March, 1797 – passed, soon afterwards, through the mutinous fleet at the Nore – took part in a very warm conflict of nearly two hours, which terminated in the defeat, by the and her consort, the  38, of a French squadron, consisting of three frigates and a gun-vessel, 9 April, 1799 – and was present, 2 July following, in an attack made by Rear-Admiral Chas. Morice Pole on a Spanish squadron lying in Aix Roads. Towards the close of 1801 Mr. Edwards proceeded to the West Indies, as Master’s Mate of the 74, Capt. Bendall Robt. Littlehales, and, on 5 Sept. 1803, was there promoted to a Lieutenancy in the 44, Capt. Edwin Henry Columbine. From 27 Oct. 1804, to 24 June, 1806, he next served in the Mediterranean with Capt. Geo. Digby, on board the 18, and  74, one of the prizes taken at Trafalgar; and in July, 1809, he assumed command, under Capt. Philip Carteret, of the first division of gun-boats employed on the Walcheren expedition. During the two last years of the war Mr. Edwards appears to have been attached, on the Leith station, to the 50, and  38, Capts. Matthew Buckle and Andrew Smith. He was advanced to the command, 11 May, 1827, of the 50, Capt. Sir John Louis, on the Jamaica station, where he removed, on 12 Sept. in the same year, to the  sloop. He returned to England in 1828; and has since been on half-pay.

 EDWARDS. 

, born 6 Jan. 1803, is only son of the late David Edwards, Esq., of Monmouth House, Chelsea, by Sarah, third daughter of Robt. Mourton Wood, Esq., of Newton Hall, Cheshire.

This officer entered the Navy, 25 July, 1820, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 10, Capt.Wm. Jas. Mingaye, on the Home station, and, after serving for some time also in the 46, Capt. Wm. Augustus Montagu, became successively Midshipman, in 1823, of the 74, and  84, guard-ships at Portsmouth, commanded by Capt. Edw. Brace, by whom he was for some time detached into the tender, for the purpose of cruizing in the Channel. From 1823 until Feb. 1827, when he passed his examination, Mr. Edwards was next employed in South America on board the 26, Capt. John Macpherson Ferguson. He soon afterwards joined the Coast Blockade, as Mate of the 42, Capt. Wm. Jas.