Edward Y. McCauley

Edward Yorke McCauley (2 November 1827 – 14 September 1894) was a United States Navy rear admiral. He served as commander of the Pacific Squadron from May 1885 to November 1886. During the American Civil War, he commanded three Union Navy vessels.

Early life and education McCauley was born in Philadelphia and raised in Tripoli, where his father Daniel Smith McCauley served as U.S. consul general to the Barbary States from 1831 to 1835 and then to the Ottoman Empire from 1835 to 1848.

Military career After graduation, McCauley continued to serve with the Africa Squadron aboard the United States until January 1848 and then back with the Mediterranean Squadron aboard the from October 1848 until 1851 and the from October 1851 to June 1852, when he was released to attend his father's funeral in Alexandria, where the elder McCauley had been serving as the first U.S. consul general to Egypt.

In August 1852, McCauley joined the East India Squadron aboard the . His ship was part of the Perry Expedition, visiting Japan in 1854. Promoted to master on 1 July 1855, he took part in an engagement with Chinese pirates near Kowloon in August. Promoted to lieutenant on 14 September 1855, McCauley was assigned to the receiving ship in Philadelphia from 1856 to 1857 and then to the from March 1857 to August 1858, helping to lay the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable.

McCauley was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1881. He was also a member of the Loyal Legion and the Oriental Society of Philadelphia. For his contributions to Egyptology, he was conferred an honorary LL.D. degree by Hobart College in 1892.

McCauley died at his home in Jamestown, Conanicut Island, Rhode Island. He was buried as Edward Yorke Macauley at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.