A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Parlby, James Edward
PARLBY. (Commander, 1836. f-p., 26; h-p., 11.)
James Edward Parlby entered the Navy, 27 Aug. 1810, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Armide 38, Capt. Rich. Dalling Dunn, attached to the force on the Home station; where he continued employed as Midshipman, until Aug. 1815, in the Dublin 74, Capts. R. D. Dunn and Thos. Elphinstone, Centaur 74, Capts. John Chambers White and Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, and Rhin 38, Capt. Chas. Malcolm. While on board the latter ship he witnessed the cutting out of several vessels from the harbour of Corrijou, near Abervrach, 18 July, 1815. On leaving her he joined the Superb 74, Capt. Chas. Ekins; under whom, in Aug. 1816, he accompanied the expedition against Algiers. He continued to serve in the Superb at Plymouth until Oct. 1818; and he was next, between that date and March, 1823, employed as Admiralty-Midshipman in the Révolutionnaire 46, Capt. Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, Impregnable 104, flag-ship of Lord Exmouth, Révolutionnaire again, Capt. Pellew, Albion 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Hoste, and Créole 42, Commodore Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy, on the Mediterranean, Home, and South American stations. He was then nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Doris 42, Capt. Fred. Edw. Vernon (now Harcourt); and on 7 June following he was confirmed into his former ship the Créole. His succeeding appointments were – in Feb. 1824, to the Albion 74, Capts. Sir Wm. Hoste and John Acworth Ommanney, in which ship he remained until Sept. 1825 – 25 May, 1830, to the Dryad 42, Capt. John Hayes, fitting for the coast of Africa – and, 11 Oct. 1832, to the command (a short time after the Dryad had been paid off) of the Griffon brigantine, on the same station, where he remained nearly four years. He attained his present rank 28 Oct. 1836; and was lastly, from 22 March, 1838, until 1843, employed as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard.
Commander Parlby married, 14 Feb. 1825, Sophia Sylvester, daughter of the late Capt. Holland, 44th Regt. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.