< Royal Naval Biography
HON. EDWARD RODNEY.
[Post-Captain of 1806.]
Youngest son of the late gallant Admiral Lord Rodney, K.B., Vice-Admiral of Great Britain, who died May 24, 1792.
This officer was born in 1783; made a Lieutenant, 29th Aug. 1799; promoted to the rank of Commander, April 8, 1805; and posted Jan. 22, 1806. He subsequently commanded the Fylla of 20 guns, and Africaine frigate, on the Jamaica and East India stations.
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