A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Piper, Edmund John
PIPER. (Lieutenant, 1812. f-p., 8; h-p., 33.)
Edmund John Piper entered the Navy, 5 April, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Belleisle 74, Capt. Wm. Hargood; and on 14 Sept. following was present at the destruction, off Cape Henry, of the French 74-gun ship L’Impétueux. After visiting the West Indies he accompanied Capt. Hargood as Midshipman, in July, 1807, into the Northumberland 74, commanded subsequently by Capt. Hon. Henry Hotham, under whom, while cruizing off L’Orient, we find him assisting, in company with the Growler gun-brig, at the gallant destruction, 22 May, 1812, of the French 40-gun frigates L’Arienne and L’Andromaque and 16-gun brig Mamelouck whose united fire, conjointly with that of a heavy battery, killed 5 and wounded 28 of the Northumberland’s people. He had previously, in 1809, lost a leg in an attack upon a large convoy in the Adriatic. Proceeding in the summer of 1812 to the Cape of Good Hope, as a Supernumerary, in the Minden 74, Capt. Alex. Skene, he was there made Lieutenant, 21 Nov. in the same year, in the Harpy sloop, Capt. Henderson Bain. He invalided home in May, 1813, and has since been on half-pay. In consideration of his wound he received a pecuniary grant from the Patriotic Fund, and was awarded, 28 May, 1816, a pension of 91l. 5s. per annum.