A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Brown, Charles Foreman
BROWN. (Commander, 1841.)
Charles Foreman Brown is eldest son of the late Rear-Admiral Wm. Brown, who, after filling the office of Commissioner of Malta and Sheerness Dockyards, died Commander-in-Chief at Jamaica in 1816; uncle, through his eldest sister, of the present Sir Geo. Fras. Hampson, Bart.; and first cousin of Commander W. C. Browne, R.N. This officer entered the Navy 3 June, 1819; passed his examination in 1825; obtained his first commission 17 April, 1827; and was subsequently appointed – 1 Sept. 1829, to the Rapid 10, Capt. Chas. Hen. Swinburne, in the Mediterranean – 24 Jan. 1832, as First-Lieutenant, to the Victor 18, Capt. Robt. Russell, on the West India station, whence he soon afterwards returned to England – 30 May, 1836, to the Asia 84, Capt. Wm. Fisher, in which ship he sailed for the Mediterranean – 27 July, 1838, again as Senior, to the Castor 36, Capt. Edw. Collier, on the same station – and, 23 Nov. 1839, and 1 Oct. 1840, to the Britannia and Queen, first-rates, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Edw. Codrington at Portsmouth. He was promoted from the last-mentioned ship to his present rank 11 Aug. 1841; and has since – except from 28 March to 6 Sept. 1844, when he held command of the Wolverene 16 – been unemployed.
Commander Brown married, 4 May, 1842, Elizabeth Jane, eldest daughter of John Hawkins, Esq., of Byelands.