A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Tinling, Edward Burnaby
TINLING. (Captain, 1843.)
Edward Burnaby Tinling entered the Navy 6 July, 1814; served as Midshipman in the Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ship of Lord Exmouth, at the bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816, and in the Curlew 18, Capt. Wm. Walpole, in an expedition conducted in 1819-20, under the orders of Capt. Fras. Augustus Collier and Major-General Sir Wm. Grant Keir, against the pirates of the Persian Gulf; passed his examination in 1822; and was made Lieutenant, 6 May, 1825, into the Eden 26, Capt. John Lawrence, in the West Indies. He returned home towards the close of the same year; and was subsequently appointed – 10 Sept. 1829, to the Donegal 78, Capts. Sir Jahleel Brenton, John Dick, and Arthur Fanshawe, employed on the Home, Mediterranean, and Lisbon stations – 24 June, 1834, to the Orestes 18, Capts. Henry John Codrington and Julius Jas. Farmer Newell, in which vessel he returned to the Mediterranean and there became First-Lieutenant – and 17 June, 1836, and 9 March, 1839, to the command of the Alban steamer and Charybdis brig, both in the West Indies. While on the station last named he was made Commander, 25 March, 1841, into the Magnificent receiving-ship at Jamaica, Commodores Peter John Douglas and Edw. Boxer. He was appointed, 23 Dec. following, Second-Captain of the Camperdown 104, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Brace at Sheerness; and was advanced to his present rank 27 Dec. 1843. He has since been on half-pay.
Capt. Tinling married, 21 May, 1844, Mary Ann, daughter of the late Francis Brace, Esq., and niece of the late Vice-Admiral Sir E. Brace, K.C.B. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.