A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Miles, Edmund
MILES. (Lieut, 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
Edmund Miles was born 5 Aug. 1788, at Fellrigg, co. Norfolk.
This officer entered the Navy, 25 Aug. 1805, as L.M., on board the Saturn 74, Capt. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, of which ship, on her arrival in the Mediterranean in the following Oct., he was constituted Midshipman. With the exception of three short intervals (from 10 Feb. to 5 March, 1812, from 8 Feb. to 2 May, 1814, and from 29 Sept. 1814 to 20 Jan. 1815), during which we find him serving in the Hannibal 74, Capt. Thos. Geo. Shortland, and acting as Lieutenant of the Goldfinch 10 and Regulus 44, Capts. Edm. Waller and Robt. Ramsey, he continued employed, from April, 1809, until March, 1815, in the Royal Oak 74, under Lord A. Beauclerk and the late Sir Pulteney Malcolm, on the Home and North American stations, chiefly in the capacity of Master’s Mate. He landed, during that period, with the small-arm men in the attack upon Walcheren in 1809; and, besides participating in much boat-service in Basque Roads and on the coast of France, witnessed, in 1814, the destruction of Commodore Barney’s flotilla up the river Patuxent, and joined in the expedition against Baltimore. While attached to the Regulus he commanded her boats at the capture of the town of St. Mary’s, on the coast of Georgia. In April, 1815, at which period he had been acting for upwards of five weeks as Lieutenant of the Thames 32, armée en flûte, Capt. Hon. Chas. Leonard Irby, he took up a commission bearing date 8 Feb. in that year. He has since been on half-pay.