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A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pascoe, John Eyre

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1867935A Naval Biographical Dictionary — Pascoe, John EyreWilliam Richard O'Byrne

PASCOE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)

John Eyre Pascoe entered the Navy, 18 Aug. 1805, as Midshipman, on board the Warrior 74, Capts. Sam. Hood Linzee, Michael Seymour, and John Wm. Spranger, attached to the Channel fleet. He removed, in Dec. 1807, to the Indefatigable 46, Capts. John Tremayne Rodd, Henry Edw. Reginald Baker, and John Broughton, stationed off the coast of France; and he was next, between Aug. 1810 and Sept. 1815, employed, off Lisbon, at Portsmouth, on the north coast of Spain, and in the Mediterranean, on board the Dreadnought 98, Capt. Sam. Hood Linzee, Plover sloop, Capt. Colin Campbell, Hannibal 74, Capt. King, Union 98, Capt. Geo. Burgoyne Salt, Vesuvius bomb, Capt. Wm. Hext, and Clorinde 40, Capt. Sam. Geo. Pechell. He then took up a commission bearing date 7 March, 1815; and has since been on half-pay.

Lieut. Pascoe married, at Plymouth, in 1839, Sarah, third daughter of S. Kerswell, Esq.