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A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Yolland, Charles Augustus

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2015914A Naval Biographical Dictionary — Yolland, Charles AugustusWilliam Richard O'Byrne

YOLLAND. (Lieutenant, 1828.)

Charles Augustus Yolland died 25 March, 1848, at Stoke, near Devonport, aged 42.

This officer entered the Navy 17 May, 1820; passed his examination in 1826; and was made Lieutenant, 19 May, 1828, into the Druid 46, Capt. Williams Sandom, on the Jamaica station, whence he returned to England and was paid off in Oct. 1829. His next and last appointments were, 16 Dec. 1834 and 1 July, 1835, to the Nimrod 20 and Tyne 28, Capts, John M‘Dougall and Lord Viscount Ingestre, employed off Lisbon and in the Mediterranean. The Tyne, of which he was the greater part of the time First-Lieutenant, was put out of commission in the spring of 1837.

Lieut. Yolland married, in 1837, Catherine Eliza, only daughter of Mrs. Gifford, of Portman-square.