A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bradshaw, Robert Augustus
BRADSHAW. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 23; h-p., 13.)
Robert Augustus Bradshaw, born in 1800 at Kinsale, is only son of General Bradshaw, K.C., late of the 1st Life Guards.
This officer entered the Navy, 25 Dec. 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Bellona 74, Capt. John Erskine Douglas, stationed off the Texel; was transferred with the same officer, in May, 1812, to the Prince 98; and, on subsequently proceeding to the Mediterranean, witnessed, as Midshipman, the reduction of Genoa in April, 1814. He next cruized for 12 months, in the Tiber 38, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres, off the coast of Ireland; served, from Sept. 1815, to Dec. 1818, in the Romney 50, Salisbury 50, and Pique 36, flag-ships on the Jamaica station of Rear-Admiral J. E. Douglas; passed his examination in January of the latter year; and, after an attachment of more than three years, as Mate, to the Pandora 18, Capt. Chas. Grenville Randolph, off Dublin and Belfast, was made Lieutenant, 19 July, 1822, into the Niemen 28, Capt. Edw. Reynolds Sibly, with whom he served, as Senior, on the Halifax station, until May, 1824. His subsequent appointments were – 13 Feb. 1825, to the Doris 36, Capt. Sir John Gordon Sinclair, in which frigate we find him employed on the coast of South America until April, 1829 – 1 May, 1833, and 5 Sept. 1835, to the San Josef and Royal Adelaide first-rates, bearing the flags of Sir Wm. Hargood and Lord Amelius Beauclerk at Plymouth, where he continued, serving as First-Lieutenant in succession to both those Admirals, until Aug. 1836 – and, 7 July, 1838, also as First-Lieutenant, to the Asia 84, Capt. Wm. Fisher, from which ship, after participating in the operations on the coast of Syria in 1840, and assisting at the blockade of Alexandria, he was paid off in May, 1841. He was promoted to his present rank 23 Nov. 1841, and has not since been employed.
Commander Bradshaw married, first, in Feb. 1830, Decima, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Tomkyns, of Bucknell Park, co. Hereford; and secondly, in 1834, Augusta Julia, only daughter of the late Obadiah Newell, Esq., Lieut. R.N. (1781), of the Royal Hospital at Plymouth, who died 1 Feb. 1837, aged 73.