A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Monday, Edward
MONDAY. (Commander, 1846. f-p., 17; h-p., 32.)
Edward Monday was born 13 May, 1782.
This officer entered the Navy, 7 Dec. 1798, as Ordinary, on borad the Hazard sloop, Capts. Wm. Butterfield and K. J. Neve; and while in that vessel, in which he remained until Aug. 1805, he was continuously employed on the Irish and Channel stations – chiefly in the capacities of Midshipman and Master’s Mate; in which latter he assisted, in June, 1803, in cutting out a French brig and chasse-marée from under a heavy fire from the enemy’s batteries and musketry in Hodierne Bay. After serving for short periods, as Midshipman, in the Ville de Paris and Hibernia, flag-ships of Hon. Wm. Cornwallis and Earl St. Vincent, as Acting-Lieutenant in the London 98, Capt. Thos. Western, and again, as Midshipman, in the Hibernia, he was nominated, in Oct. 1806, Acting-Lieutenant of the Phoenix 36, Capts. Zachary Mudge, Jas. Bowen, Wm. Henry Webley, and Chas. John Austen; under whom, the appointment being confirmed on 7 of the following month, he continued (with the exception of a brief attachment, from Dec. 1808 until March, 1809, to the Alert sloop, Capt. Williams) to serve, until wrecked, during a hurricane near Smyrna, 20 Feb. 1816. He comanded her boats, during that period, at the capture of El Cupido Spanish schooner from Buenos Ayres, bound to Corunna, carrying 1 large gun on a circular slide and 17 men, in Dec. 1806; in conjunction with those of the Jalouse, at the very gallant capture, with a loss to the British of 1 man killed and another wounded, of Le Charles French brig privateer of 14 guns and 90 men, under a heavy fire of grape and musketry, 29 Jan. 1810;[1] at the reduction of Fort Pulo Kissa, in the Eastern Archipelago, in March, 1811; together with the boats of a squadron, in an attack on Sambas, a piratical settlement on the coast of Borneo, in Jan. 1813; and at the capture of two piratical proas in the Grecian Archipelago in 1815. He also, in 1811, took, by escalade, with a party of seamen and marines, Fort Concordia, on the island of Timor, mounting 26 pieces of cannon; and in 1812 he was employed in the boats of a squadron at the reduction of Palambang. During four months of 1812-13 Mr. Monday (by whom all the above services, with the exception of the capture of El Cupido, were performed in the capacity of First-Lieutenant), acted as Captain of the Phoenix. After nearly 32 years of half-pay he was advanced to the rank of Commander 9 Nov. 1846!
Commander Monday is married, and has issue six children.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1810, p. 178.