A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bedwell, Frederick
BEDWELL. (Lieut., 1821. f-p., 13; h-p., 24.)
Frederick Bedwell entered the Navy, 8 Sept. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Woolwich, Master-Commander Rich. Turner, employed in the Mediterranean; and, from Dec. 1811, until May, 1815, as Midshipman of the Grampus 50, and Marlborough, Sceptre, and Albion 74’s, was the constant companion of the present Sir Geo. Cockburn in all his operations at the defence of Cadiz and in the Chesapeake. We soon afterwards find him, on being appointed with the same gallant officer to the Northumberland 74, escorting, as Master’s Mate, Napoleon Buonaparte to St. Helena. After a brief attachment, in the autumn of 1816, to the Weymouth store-ship, Master-Commander Rich. Turner, he sailed on a surveying expedition to New South Wales, and, while there, was promoted into the Bathurst sloop, Capt. Philip Parker King, 7 July, 1821. He has been on half-pay since 1823.