A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bindon, John Read
BINDON. (Retired Commander, 1843. f-p., 21; h-p., 33.)
John Read Bindon entered the Navy, from the R N. Academy, 21 June, 1793, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Captain 74, Capt. Sam. Reeve. He served on shore in August following at the occupation of Toulon, and in December witnessed the destruction of the French shipping in that port; was further employed, as Midshipman, with the landforce at the reduction of St. Fiorenza and Bastia, in the island of Corsica, in Feb. and May, 1794; and, on 14 March and 13 July, 1795, participated in Hotham’s partial actions with the French fleet. In 1796 Mr. Bindon joined the Andromache 32, Capt. Chas. John Moore Mansfield, one of the in-shore squadron off Cadiz, and, on 31 Jan. 1797, during a close and destructive engagement of 40 minutes with an Algerine ship of similar force, when an attempt was made by the latter to board the British frigate, he received several sabre and gun-shot wounds. We are informed that, on 14 of the following month, he was also present in the action off Cape St. Vincent. Proceeding to the West Indies in the early part of 1799, Mr. Bindon was there promoted, from the Prince of Wales 98, bearing the flag of Lord Hugh Seymour, to a Lieutenancy, on 31 July in the same year, in the Invincible 74, Capt. Wm. Cayley, while under whose command he served on shore with the army during the operations which led to the conquest of the Dutch colony of Surinam. His subsequent appointments appear to have been – 26 June, 1800, to the Cyane 18, Capt. Hen. Matson, also stationed in the West Indies – 26 March, 1801, to the Daphne 20, Capt. Rich. Matson, in which vessel he returned to England – 1 Feb. 1803, to the Russell 74, Capt. Robt. Williams, whom he accompanied to the East Indies – 13 April, 1805, to the Stately 64, Capt. Geo. Parker, employed in the North Sea – and, in Sept. 1806, to the command of a signal-station on the west coast of Ireland, which he retained until 20 June, 1814. Since the latter date – with the exception of some time towards the close of 1821, when, owing to the disturbed state of the co. of Limerick, he was selected to command five armed boats on the river Shannon, and proved of great public utility – he has not been employed. He was placed on the Junior List of Retired Commanders 26 Nov. 1830, and on the Senior 23 Dec. 1843.
Commander Bindon holds an appointment in the Irish Constabulary. He married, 31 Jan. 1806, Sarah Eliza Vereker, cousin of the late Lord Gort, and niece of the late Col. Wm. Odell, M.P. for the co. of Limerick, and a Lord of the Treasury, by whom he has issue an only daughter.