Rear Admiral Edward Lloyd Esq KH

Rear Admiral Edward Lloyd Esq KH
Title:Rear Admiral
First name:Edward
Surname:Lloyd
Post-nominals:Esq KH
Year elected:1823
Last year on list:1855
MembershipNaval
Rear Admiral Edward Lloyd ESQ entered the navy, 1798, as midshipman on board the Dictator 64, then in attendance upon his late Majesty, at Weymouth; but afterwards employed in conveying troops to and from Ireland, and bringing Russian soldiers from Revel, to co-operate with the British forces in Holland. She was subsequently attached to a secret expedition, under Lieutenant-General Sir James Pulteney and Rear-Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren, whom she joined just after the termination of the Ferrol affair, in August 1800. On the 30th of that month, Mr. Lloyd assisted in towing out from under the batteries of Redondella, in Vigo Bay, where she had been most gallantly boarded and carried by a division of boats, under Lieutenant Henry Burke, of the Renown, la Guipe French ship privateer, of 18 long 9-pounders and 161 men.

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