A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Egerton, Francis Philip
EGERTON. (Commander, 1844.)
Francis Philip Egerton passed his examination in 1833; and obtained his first commission 8 Jan. 1836. His appointments as Lieutenant were – 23 March, 1836, and 15 Sept. 1840, to the Vanguard 80, and Calcutta 84, Capts. Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, Sir Thos. Fellowes, and Sir Sam. Roberts, on the Mediterranean station – and, 8 Feb. 1842, to the Agincourt 72, flag-ship in the East Indies of Sir Thos. John Cochrane. Since his attainment of his present rank, 9 Aug. 1844, he has been in command of the Hazard 18, on the station last named. During an expedition conducted in July, 1846, by Sir Thos. Cochrane against the Sultan of Borneo, we find him intrusted with the command (under Capt. Wm. J. H. Johnstone, of the Agincourt) of the brigade, rockets, and field-pieces, and assisting on 8 of that month at the capture and destruction of the enemy’s forts and batteries in the river Brune. He appears, on a previous occasion, to have narrowly escaped falling into a trap laid by the Sultan to get him into his city, for the purpose, we believe, of putting him to death.[1]
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1846, pp. 3441, 3442, 3447.