Royal Naval Biography/Graham, John George
JOHN GEORGE GRAHAM, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1825.]
Was made a lieutenant, Sept. 20th, 1815; and served as such under Captains John Furneaux and James Lillicrap, in the Carron sloop and Hyperion frigate, on the East India, Cape of Good Hope, and Jamaica stations. He was promoted to the command of the Icarus brig, June 16th, 1823; and in Aug. 1824, his boats, under the directions of Lieutenant Charles Croker, captured a piratical schooner, in a creek to the westward of the Havannah, from whence they also brought out a sloop laden with the plunder of an American brig, the master and crew of which had experienced the most inhuman treatment, and were to have been put to death on the following morning. Captain Graham obtained the rank he now holds, Oct. 3d, 1825.
Agents.– Sir F. M. Ommanney and Son.