A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bland, George
BLAND. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
George Bland entered the Navy, 15 Jan. 1806, as Third-cl. Boy, on board the Lion 64, Capt. Robt. Rolles, on the East India station; became Midshipman, 3 March, 1808, of the Pallas 32, Capt. Geo. Fras. Seymour, with whom he served at the destruction of the French shipping in Aix Roads in April, 1809, and at the reduction of Flushing; accompanied the same officer, in 1810, into the Manilla 36, in which frigate, under Capt. John Joyce, he was wrecked on the Haak Sands, near the Texel, 28 Jn. 1812; remained a prisoner in France from that period until 1814; then joined the Hasty brig, Capt. John Brenton, on the Cork station; and on 11 Feb. 1815, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. He has not since been employed.
Lieut. Bland was appointed, in 1834, a Naval Knight of Windsor.