A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bury, George
BURY. (Lieutenant, 1814. f-p., 20; h-p., 24.)
George Bury was born 17 Jan. 1790.
This officer entered the Navy, 9 June, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Colossus 74, under the auspices and command of the present Sir Geo. Martin, whom he afterwards joined in the Glory and Barfleur 98’s, on the Channel station. On 22 July, 1805, he fought as Midshipman in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, and he continued in the Barfleur, under Sir Robt. Barlow and Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, until May, 1807. From that date until July, 1811, we next find him serving under the first-named officer in the Montagu 74, Queen 98, and Canopus 80, on the Mediterranean station, and, on 26 Oct. 1809, contributing to the destruction of the French line-of-battle ships Robuste and Lion. He afterwards became attached in succession, part of the time as Acting-Lieutenant, to the San Josef and Caledonia, flag-ships of Sir Chas. Cotton, Lord Keith, and Sir Edw. Pellew, Sabine 18, Capt. Westley, Impétueux 74, and Stately 64, bearing each the flag of Vice-Admiral Martin, and Severn 50, Capt. Joseph Nourse, on the Home, Mediterranean, Lisbon, and North American stations. He was promoted, 11 Jan. 1814, into the Jaseur 18, Capt. Geo. Edw. Watts, and after an intermediate and very active employment in the Chesapeake, returned home in the summer of 1814. Lieut. Bury’s next appointments were – 11 April, 1826, to the Coast Guard, in which service he remained seven years – and, in 1840, as Admiralty Agent, to the Caledonia Halifax contract mail steam-vessel. He has been on half-pay since the close of 1841.
He married, 1 May, 1826, Eliza Anne Lydia, daughter of Thos. Charleton, Esq., late Lieut.Colonel, Royal Artillery.