A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Farquharson, Edward Riou Owen
FARQUHARSON. (Lieutenant, 1810. f-p., 12; h-p., 32.)
Edward Riou Owen Farquharson died 21 Dec. 1846, at Haslar Hospital.
This officer entered the Navy, 14 June, 1803, as Third-cl. Boy, on board the Conqueror 74, Capts. Thos. Louis, Israel Pellew, and Edw. Fellowes, in which ship he accompanied Lord Nelson, as Midshipman, to the West Indies in pursuit of the combined fleets of France and Spain – served in the battle off Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805 – and witnessed the surrender to the British of the Russian squadron in the Tagus, in Aug. 1808. After an employment of some months off Lisbon and Cadiz in the Barfleur 98, bearing the flag of Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley, and, as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Myrtle sloop, and Tonnant 80, Capts. John Smith Cowan and Sir John Gore, he was confirmed to a Lieutenancy, 19 Dec. 1810, in the Mars 74, commanded by Capt. Henry Raper, on the Lisbon and Baltic stations. His subsequent appointments were, in 1813-14, to the Révolutionnaire 38, Capt. John Chas. Woolcombe, Sea-Lark schooner, Capt. Thos. Warrand, and Rolla brig, Capt. Robt. Julian. Since 27 April, 1815, Lieut. Farquharson had been on half-pay.