A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bradby, Thomas
BRADBY. (Lieut., 1809. f-p., 17; h-p., 33.)
Thomas Bradby entered the Navy, 12 Dec. 1797, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ariadne 20, Capt. Jas. Bradby, on the North Sea station; removed, as Midshipman, in Aug. 1800, to the Andromeda 32, commanded, in the West Indies, by the same officer and by Capt. Edw. Durnford King; and, in Feb. 1802, was paid off at Plymouth from the Magnanime 44, Capt. Wm. Taylor. He next served, from Oct. 1803, until Sept. 1807, in the Prince George 98, Capts. Joseph Sydney Yorke and Geo. Losack, employed in the Channel and West Indies; and, after a further attachment to the Bulwark 74, Capt. Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, off Cadiz, Royal William 100, Capt. Hon. Courtenay Boyle, at Spithead, Christian VII. 80, Capt. J, S. Yorke, In the Downs, and Ganges 74, and Barfleur 98, both flag-ships in the Tagus of Vice-Admiral Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley, was made Lieutenant into the Triumph 74, Capt. Sam. Hood Linzee, 7 July, 1809. Mr. Bradby continued cruizing in the latter ship off the Western Islands, before the port of Cadiz, and in the Mediterranean, until 14 Aug. 1810; subsequently to which period we find him appointed – 26 Jan. 1811, to the Rolla 10, Capts. Sam. Clarke and Wm. Hill, under the former of whom he assisted in capturing, off Fécamp, the French privateer L’Espoir, of 16 guns and 50 men, 6 Oct. in the same year – and, 18 May, 1814, to the Alpheus 36, Capt. Geo. Langford, from which ship, after serving in the East Indies, he was paid off, 31 Dec. 1816. He has not since been afloat.