A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Greensword, Edward Nathaniel
GREENSWORD. (Retired Commander, 1842.)
Edward Nathaniel Greensword died 17 June, 1845, at Boulogne-sur-Mer, aged 71.
This officer (whose name had been previously borne for upwards of seven years on the books of the Brune and London) embarked, 2 July, 1795, on board the Coromandel, Capt. John Inglis, under whom, on removing to the Belliqueux 64, he bore a part in the action off Camperdown 11 Oct. 1797. He was promoted, 8 Oct. 1798, to a Lieutenancy in the Woolwich, armée en flûte, Capt. Michael Halliday, from which vessel, after visiting the Cape of Good Hope, he was sent, sick, to Haslar Hospital, 24 Feb. 1800. He became a Retired Commander, on the Junior List, 26 Nov. 1830; and on the Senior, 5 Jan. 1842. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.