A Naval Biographical Dictionary/d’Aeth, Edward Henry Hughes
D’AETH. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Edward Henry Hughes d’Aeth is third son of Capt. G. W. H. D’Aeth, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy in 1836; and while attached, in Aug. 1844, to the Dido 18, Capt. Hon. Henry Keppel, he served very creditably in an attack made by that vessel and the Hon.E.I.Co.’s steamer Phlegethon, on a settlement of pirates in the island of Borneo, where the British lost 32 men killed and 30 wounded, but inflicted a condign punishment on their opponents. He afterwards joined the Queen 110, flag-ship at Devonport of Sir John West; was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 25 Sept. 1845; obtained an appointment, 27 Nov. following, to the Scourge steam-sloop, Capt. Jas. Crawford Caffin, employed on the Home station; and since 11 March, 1846, has been serving at the Cape of Good Hope in the Brilliant 22, Capt. Rundle Surges Watson.