A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Burrough, John
BURROUGH. (Lieut., 1827. f-p., 12; h-p., 17.)
John Burrough was born, 28 Feb. 1802, at Brampton, co. Cumberland.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 Dec. 1818, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Morgiana 18, Capt. Chas. Burrough Strong, under whom, and his successors, Capts. Alex. Albert Sandilands, Wm. Finlaison, and Christ. Knight, he served with great activity in suppression of the slave-traffic on the coast of Africa, part of the time as Midshipman, until Aug. 1822. He then removed to the Blossom 26, Capts. Thos. Bourchier and Archibald Maclean, on the South American station; joined, in June, 1824, the Bulwark 74, Capt. Thos. Dundas, lying at Portsmouth; passed his examination 7 Feb. 1825; became Mate, 3 Dec. 1826, of the Asia 84, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Sir Edw. Codrington; and, at the close of the battle of Navarin, was promoted, 21 Oct. 1827, to a vacancy caused by the death of Lieut. G. W. H. Fitzroy, in the Dartmouth 42, Capt. Thos. Fellowes, from which ship he was paid off in March, 1830. Lieut. Burrough was next appointed, 9 March, 1832, to the Harrier 18, Capt. Spencer Lambert Hunter Vassall, for a passage to the East Indies to join the Melville 74, bearing the flag of Sir John Gore, by whom, however, on his arrival, he was immediately, and to his great mortification, sent home again in the Cruizer 18, Capt. John Parker, to be paid off. After an unemployed interval of a twelvemonth he became attached, 16 Jan. 1834, to the Edinburgh 74, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres, on the Mediterranean station, but in the following July was compelled to invalid, in consequence of a very aggravated species of epilepsy, originally contracted on the coast of Africa. His last appointment, which was, 31 Jan. 1844, as First-Lieutenant, to the Tortoise store ship, commanded by his former Captain, Wm. Finlaison, he was for the same reason unable to retain, and he has been therefore doomed, since the March of that year, to a helpless half-pay.
Lieut. Burrough married, 27 July, 1843, Ann, daughter of the late Jas. Wainwright, Esq.