A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Graham, John George
GRAHAM. (Captain, 1825. f-p., 14; h-p., 24.)
John George Graham entered the Navy, 24 April, 1809, as A.B. on board Victory 100, Capt. Philip Dumaresq, of which ship, bearing the flag in the Baltic of Sir Jas. Saumarez, he became Midshipman 30 June following. From May, 1810, until the receipt of his first commission, which bears date 20 Sept. 1815, he was successively employed, on the Home and Cape of Good Hope stations, in the Solebay 32, Capt. Hon. Granville Leveson Proby, Malacca frigate, Capt. Wm. Butterfield. Victory again, Capt. Dumaresq, Bellerophon and Scarborough, flag-ships of Rear-Admiral John Ferrier, Cumberland 74, Capt. Thos. Baker, and Harpy sloop, Capt. Geo. Tyler. He afterwards joined, in the capacity of Lieutenant – 3 June, 1818, the Carron 20, Capt. John Furneaux, under whom he was wrecked, in the Bay of Bengal, 6 July, 1820 – and, 6 April, 1821, the Hyperion 42, Capt. Jas. Lillicrap, at the Cape of Good Hope. He was promoted to the command, 16 June, 1823, of the Icarus 10, on the Jamaica station; was invested with Post-rank 3 Oct. 1825; and on 1 Oct. 1846 accepted the Retirement.