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A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Wadeson, Charles

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1990398A Naval Biographical Dictionary — Wadeson, CharlesWilliam Richard O'Byrne

WADESON. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)

Charles Wadeson was born 15 July, 1793.

This officer entered the Navy, 29 Sept. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Plantagenet 74, Capt. Wm. Bradley, stationed in the Channel; where, off Lisbon, and at the Cape of Good Hope, he served, from Oct. 1807 until Sept. 1810, under the flag of the late Sir Albemarle Bertie, in the Foudroyant 80, Bellerophon 74, and, as Midshipman, in the Leopard 50. With the exception of a few months passed in 1814-15, at Plymouth, in the Prince Frederick, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Thos. Byam Martin, he was actively employed from Sept. 1810 until Oct. 1815, in the Mediterranean, on board the Lavinia 40, Capt. Geo. Digby, Rivoli 74, Capt. Graham Eden Hamond, Caledonia 120, bearing the flag of the late Lord Exmouth, Malta 80, Capt. Wm. Chas. Fahie, and, again under Lord Exmouth, in the Boyne 98. He was then presented with a commission dated 28 Feb. 1815. He has been afflicted, for upwards of 20 years, with paralysis of the right side, accompanied occasionally with deafness and now with the loss of speech.