A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bynon, John Corrie
BYNON. (Commander, 1842.)
John Corrie Bynon passed his examination in 1827; obtained his first commission 10 Jan. 1837; was appointed, on 25 of the same month, to the Talavera 74, Capt. Wm. Bowen Mends, in the Mediterranean; joined, 10 April, 1839, the Druid 44, Capts. Lord Henry John Spencer Churchill and Henry Smith; and, for his services as her First-Lieutenant on the coast of China, was advanced to the rank of Commander 23 Dec. 1842.[1] He was paid off in the spring of 1843, and has not since been afloat.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1843, p. 2950.