A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Browell, Langton
BROWELL. (Commander, 1845. f-p., 18; h-p., 9.)
Langton Browell, born 26 July, 1806, is son of the late Hen. Browell, Esq., of the Lord ChamberIain’s Office; grandson of Wm. M. Browell, Esq., who served as Midshipman of the Centurion under Lord Anson in his voyage round the world; and nephew of the late Capt. Wm. Browell, R.N., Lieut.-Governor of Greenwich Hospital, also of the late Capt. Herbert Browell, B.N., who died in command of the Brunswick 74, and of the present Jas. Browell, Esq., Purser and Paymaster, R.N.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 5 April, 1820, and embarked, 21 March, 1822, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Hind 20, Capts. Hon. Hen. John Rous and Lord Hen. John Spencer Churchill, stationed in the Mediterranean, where he continued, part of the time as Midshipman, until he returned to England, and was paid off, in Aug. 1825. He then joined the Rainbow 28, commanded by Capt. Rous, on the East India station; passed his examination in May, 1826; and, after a further attachment, as Acting-Lieutenant, to the Hind, Capt. John Furneaux, was confirmed into the Cyrené 20, Capt. Alex. Campbell, 17 March, 1828. He immediately afterwards came home with the latter officer in the Bombay, a new 84, recently launched; and subsequently served – from March, 1830, to Jan. 183-1, in the Nautilus 10, Capt. Lord Geo. Paulet, off the coasts of Ireland, Portugal, and Spain – from June following until June, 1838, in the Winchester 52, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Bladen Capel in the East Indies – and, from Sept. 1841, until he invalided in Sept. 1842, as First, in the Vixen steam-vessel, Capt. Hen. Boyes, attached to the force in China. He joined, 10 Aug. 1844, the Victoria and Albert yacht, Capt. Lord Adolphus FitzClarence; but, since his promotion to the rank of Commander, 25 Sept. 1845, has been unemployed.
He married, 20 Feb. 1840, Mary Anne, eldest daughter of Capt. Leigh Lye, who served throughout the Peninsular War and at Waterloo in the 11th Light Dragoons, and niece of Rear-Admiral Lye.