A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dashwood, Charles Robert
DASHWOOD, K.T.S. (Lieutenant, 1824. f-p., 15; h-p., 18)
Charles Robert Dashwood is eldest son of Vice-Admiral Sir Chas. Dashwood, K.C.B.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 12 Dec. 1814; and embarked, in Dec. 1817, as Midshipman, on board the Tiber 38, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres, stationed in the Channel. He proceeded to the East Indies in 1818, on board the Phaeton 38, Capts. Wm. Henry Dillon and Wm. Augustus Montagu; and in 1822 joined, with his father, the Windsor Castle 74, of which ship he was created a Lieutenant, 1 March, 1824. He was afterwards appointed – 28 Feb. 1826, to the Lively 46, Capt. Wm. Elliott, on the coast of Africa, – 1 Nov. 1828, to the Warsprite 76, Capt. Wm. Parker, at Plymouth – and 22 Jan. 1829, to the Kent 78, Capts. John Ferris Devonshire and Sam. Pym, fitting for the Mediterranean. He returned to England in 1831; and has not since been afloat.
John VI. of Portugal conferred the K.T.S. on Lieut. Dashwood, 18 April, 1825, to commemorate the occasion on which he sought refuge on board the Windsor Castle, when in the Tagus, in 1824. The subject of this sketch married, 13 May, 1833, Julia, eldest daughter of John E. Hovenden, Esq., Barrister-at-law, of Gloucester Place, Portman Square, by whom he has issue. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.