A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Fairman, Alfred Nelson
FAIRMAN. (Commander, 1846.)
Alfred Nelson Fairman entered the Navy 11 April, 1818; passed his examination in 1825; and obtained his first commission 4 Sept. 1829. He was subsequently appointed – 13 July, 1830, to the Raleigh 18, Capt. Abraham Mills Hawkins, in the Mediterranean – 25 April, 1836, to the Coast Guard – 11 Sept. 1838, to the Actaeon 26, Capt. Robt. Russell, on the South American station – and, 2 July, 1844, as First-Lieutenant, to the Warspite 50, Capt. Provo Wm. Parry Wallis. He returned home from the Mediterranean in 1845; was next selected, on 16 Jan. 1816, to fill the post of First-Lieutenant on board the Queen 110, successive flag-ship on the Home station of Sir John West and Sir Gordon Bremer; and, on 9 Nov. 1846, assumed the rank of Commander. He has since been on half-pay.