Sir Edward Troubridge, 2nd Baronet

Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Thomas Troubridge, 2nd Baronet, ( – 7 October 1852) was a Royal Navy officer and politician who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. He later served for fifteen years as the member of parliament for Sandwich, Kent.

Biography

Family background and early life Troubridge was the only son of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Troubridge, Bt., and Frances Northall, the daughter of Captain John Northall. He was educated at Dr. Charles Burney's school at Greenwich.

Wartime naval career Troubridge entered the Navy on 21 January 1797 as a volunteer on board the ship , the guard ship at Plymouth under the command of Captain Richard Boger. He was discharged in April 1799, and in January 1801 joined the ship , Captain George Murray, as a midshipman. He followed Murray into the , seeing action at the battle of Copenhagen on 2 April 1801, and subsequently into , until transferred in May 1802 to , Captain James Oughton, for a short time. In July 1803, he joined the , flagship of Lord Nelson in the Mediterranean, and in August 1804, moved into the frigate , Captain Ross Donnelly, serving until February 1805. On the death of his father, Troubridge succeeded to the baronetcy. He was invalided home in January 1808. He spent much of the rest of the year on leave of absence from his ship in order to attend Parliament and vote in favour of the Great Reform Act. and remained in that post for Queen Victoria until 1841. and again in 1835 and 1841, serving until 1847. serving as Fourth Naval Lord until 1837, then as Third Naval Lord until June 1841, and then briefly as Second Naval Lord before he resigned from the Admiralty on 23 August 1841 to take command of the 84-gun ship in the Mediterranean. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath by the newly crowned Queen Victoria on 20 July 1838. He was promoted to rear admiral on 23 November 1841, and was also a Deputy Lieutenant for Haddingtonshire.

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