A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lechmere, Edmund
LECHMERE. (Lieutenant, 1815.)
Edmund Lechmere died 30 Jan. 1841, at Hereford. He was a relative of the present Lieut. John Lechmere, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Feb. 1806, as Midshipman, on board the Prince 98, Capt. Wm. Lechmere, stationed off Cadiz. Removing, in the following Dec, to the Acasta 40, Capt. Philip Beaver, he was for nearly three years employed in that ship on the West India station, where, in Feb. 1809, he witnessed the reduction of Martinique. After a short servitude in the Basque Roads on board the Scipion 74, flag-ship of Hon. Robt. Stopford, he rejoined Capt. Beaver, in May, 1810, in the {{sc|Nisus} 38, and in the following Dec. was present, as Master’s Mate, at the capture of the Isle of France, as also, in 1811, in the operations against Java. Quitting the {{sc|Nisus}, which had been latterly commanded by Capt. Chas. Marsh Schomberg, in May, 1813, Mr. Lechmere next, for a few months in 1814, served off Lisbon in the Rodney 74, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Geo. Martin. He attained the rank of Lieutenant 3 Feb. 1815, and was lastly, from April in that year until July, 1816, and from April, 1828, until March, 1829, employed in the Mediterranean in the Spartan 38, Capt. Phipps Hornby, and in the Coast Blockade as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies 74, Capt. Hugh Pigot.