A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Graves, Thomas
GRAVES. (Captain, 1846.)
Thomas Graves entered the Navy 9 March, 1816; passed his examination in 1823; and obtained his first commission 30 April, 1827. He joined, 14 Aug. following, the Adventure surveying-vessel, Capt. Philip Parker King, on the South American station; and on 11 May, 1832, and 2 Aug. 1836, was successively invested with the command of the Mastiff and Meteor, alias Beacon, vessels employed in the survey of the Mediterranean. He obtained a second promotal commission, 22 Feb. 1841, but did not leave the Beacon until appointed, 2 April, 1846, to the Ceylon receiving-ship at Malta. He was advanced to his present rank 3 Aug. following; and is now on half-pay.
Capt. Graves married, 29 Feb. 1839, Frances Sarah, daughter of Major C. A. Bayley, Lieut.-Governor of Gozo. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.