A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lipscomb, Edwin
LIPSCOMB. (Lieut., 1826. f-p., 16; h-p., 25.)
Edwin Lipscomb, born 24 Aug. 1796, is son of the late Rev. W. Lipscomb, Rector of Welbury, Yorkshire; and nephew of the gallant Capt. John Cooke, R.N., who fell at Trafalgar, in command of the Bellerophon 74.
This officer entered the Navy, 10 May, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Avenger 16, Capt. Thos. White, part of the force on the Newfoundland station. Becoming attached, in March, 1811, to the Elizabeth 74, Capts. Edw. Leveson Gower and Gardiner Henry Guion, he was for upwards of four years employed as Midshipman and Master’s Mate of that ship off Lisbon, and also in the Mediterranean and Adriatic, where he served in the boats at the capture and destruction of many of the enemy’s armed vessels, and was present at the reduction, in June and July, 1813, of the towns of Omago, Dignano, and Fiumé. He next, in Oct. 1815, joined the Active 46, Capt. Philip Carteret, on the Jamaica station, whence he returned to England in Sept. 1817; and he was afterwards (he had passed his examination in Aug. 1816) employed, between Jan. 1819 and his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant 3 May, 1826, on board the Newcastle 60, flag-ship ot Rear-Admiral Edw. Griffith, Albion 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Hoste, and Revenge 76, bearing the flag of Sir Harry Burrard Neale – on the North American, Home, and Mediterranean stations. He then obtained an appointment to the Isis 50, flagship at Jamaica of Sir Lawrence Wm. Halsted, with whom he returned to England in June, 1827. He has since been on half-pay.
He married, 16 July, 1846, Mary, eldest daughter of the late Dansey Dansey, Esq., of Brincep Court, Herefordshire.