A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Davison, Edward Baker
DAVISON. (Lieut., 1807. f-p., 22; h-p., 27.)
Edward Baker Davison was born in Dec. 1782, at Jamaica, and died about the commencement of 1847.
This officer entered the Navy, 31 July, 1798, as A.B., on board the Haerlem 68, Capt. Geo. Burlton, employed off the coast of Ireland, and in Dec. following became Midshipman of the Dragon 74, Capts. Geo. Campbell, Fred. Lewis Maitland, John Aylmer, and Edw. Griffith. After serving for some time in the Channel and off the north coast of Spain, he proceeded to the Mediterranean; and in the course of 1800 was wounded while on boat-service at Elba. On 9 April, 1805, Mr. Davison removed, as Sub-Lieutenant, to the Fervent 10, Lieut.-Commander John Edw. Hare, with whom he cruized in the Straits of Gibraltar until appointed, 25 April, 1807, full Lieutenant of the Imogene 16, Capts. Thos. Garth and Wm. Stephens. He invalided home from the Mediterranean in Dec. 1808; and was next appointed in succession, 13 Oct. 1812, and 12 April, 1813, to L’Oiseau, prison-ship at Plymouth, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Needham, and Gladiator 44, bearing the flag at Portsmouth of Rear-Admiral Edw. Jas. Foote, under whose orders he continued to serve until 18 May, 1815. From 5 Oct. 1831, until 28 July, 1842, Lieut. Davison was subsequently, with partial intermissions, employed as Agent for Transports Afloat on board the Maitland, Stentor, Parmelia, and Prince George. In command of the latter vessel he officiated, on 26 Aug. and 1 Oct. 1841, at the reduction of Amoy, and the recapture of Chusan. At the period of his death he had been on half-pay since 1842.