A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Turberville, Edmund
TURBERVILLE. (Commander, 1814.)
Edmund Turberville is the son of a clergyman. This officer entered the Royal Naval Academy in 1803; and embarked, in 1806, on board the Tonnant 80, Capt. Thos. Browne, bearing the flag of Hon. Michael De Courcy; with whom, after serving off Cape Finisterre and in the Channel, and assisting in embarking the remains of General Moore’s army at Corunna, he removed as Midshipman, in March, 1809, to the Foudroyant 80, and sailed for the coast of Brazil, where he was nominated, 18 May, 1810, Acting-Lieutenant of the Hyacinth 18, Capt. John Carter. In the following Dec, having made a voyage to Lisbon and returned to the Brazils, he went back (he had been confirmed a Lieutenant by a commission bearing date 15 Aug. 1810) to the Foudroyant. He invalided home in May, 1811; and was afterwards, from 28 Dec. in the same year until 7 July, 1812, and from 10 Sept. ensuing until 2 Aug. 1814, employed off Rochefort and Cherbourg, and in the Mediterranean, in his former ship the Tonnant, Capt. Sir John Gore, and in the Mulgrave 74, Capt. Thos. Jas. Maling. He was present in Sir Edw. Pellew’s partial action with the Toulon fleet 5 Nov. 1813; and on one occasion, while the Mulgrave was working out of St. Helen’s, with a strong breeze from the southward, he jumped overboard and saved a man who had fallen from the forecastle. On leaving the Mulgrave he took up a Commander’s commission bearing date 15 June, 1814. He has since been on half-pay.
Commander Turberville married, 3 June, 1819, Mary, only daughter of the late John Westcar, Esq., of Cuslow, Bucks. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.