Royal Naval Biography/Fead, Francis
FRANCIS FEAD, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1826.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 30th of Dec. 1806; appointed to the Monmouth 64, armed en flûte, May 12th, 1813; removed from that ship to the Leander 50, Captain Sir George R. Collier, about the end of the same year; promoted to the rank of commander, Oct. 4th, 1814: appointed to the Pylades 18, at Portsmouth, June 1st, 1824; and invalided from that sloop, on the Jamaica station, June 28th, 1825. His commission as captain bears date Nov. 1st, 1826.
This officer married, in 1824, Helen Mary, daughter of the late Robert Scott, of Shincliffe Hall, co. Durham, Esq.
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