A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Tennant, Charles Edmund
TENNANT. (Commander, 1842.)
Charles Edmund Tennant entered the Navy 21 Aug. 1824; passed his examination in 1830; and obtained his first commission 19 April, 1832. His succeeding appointments were – 21 Sept. 1833, to the Andromache 28, Capts. Bernard Yeoman and Henry Ducie Chads, fitting for the East Indies, whence he returned in 1835 – 7 June, 1836, to the Imogene 26, Capt. Henry Wm. Bruce, in which ship he served for upwards of three years in South America – and, 27 May, 1841, to the Cornwallis 72, as Flag-Lieutenant to Vice-Admiral Sir Wm. Parker, whom he accompanied to the coast of China. While there he was in attendance upon his gallant chief on every occasion of service, and displayed the most praiseworthy zeal. He assisted at the capture of Amoy, gained the highest approbation for his conduct at the reduction of Chinghae, was mentioned in the despatches of Sir Hugh Gough for his spirited behaviour in the attack upon the enemy’s entrenched camp upon the heights of Segoan, landed at taking of Chapoo and Woosung, and took a prominent part in an attack made upon some Tartar troops who held out in the city of Chin-Kiang-Foo.[1] He was advanced in consequence to the rank of Commander 16 Sept. 1842, but has not been since employed.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, pp. 396, 2386, 2391, 3399, 3400, 3403, 3405, 3694.