A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jeffreys, George Barbor
JEFFREYS. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
George Barbor Jeffreys entered the Navy 27 March, 1828; passed his examination in 1834; and was for some time Mate of the Pylades 18, Capt. Talavera Vernon Anson. While so attached, he shared in the principal operations in China, where (besides commanding a boat at the capture of one out of three piratical junks) he served with the flotilla at the taking of several rafts and of the last fort protecting the approaches to the city of Canton, 13 March, 1841 – was similarly employed at the capture of that city on 18 of the same month – and, during the second series of operations against it, was again employed in the boats at the destruction of the whole line of defences extending about two miles from the British factory.[1] Being rewarded for these services by commission dated 6 May, 1841, and successively appointed to the Wellesley 72, Commodore Sir J. J. Gordon Bremer, and Blonde 42, Capt. Thos. Bourchier, he further assisted at the capture of Amoy, Chusan, and Chinghae. He subsequently joined – 22 Jan. 1842, the Wellesley again, Capt. Thos. Maitland – 20 Sept. 1842, the Alfred 50, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore John Brett Purvis on the South American station – 11 May, 1844, after an interval of a few months, the same ship – 1 Aug. 1844, as First-Lieutenant, the Frolic 16, Capt. Cospatrick Baillie Hamilton, in the Pacific – and 13 June, 1846, the Talbot 26, Capt. Sir Thos. Raikes Trigge Thompson, with whom he returned to England in 1847.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1811, pp. 1503, 1505, 2505.