Royal Naval Biography/Smith, Edward Tyrell
EDWARD TYRRELL SMITH, Esq
Admiral of the White.
This officer obtained Post rank, May 2, 1781; and commanded the Endymion, of 44 guns, one of Sir George B. Rodney’s repeaters on the memorable 12th April, 1782[1]. He subsequently served on the Jamaica station.
During the Spanish and Russian armaments, in 1790 and 1791, he had the Proserpine, of 28 guns; from which time we find no further mention of him until the month of November, 1795, when he sailed from England in the Abergavenny, of 54 guns, in company with the late Sir Hugh C. Christian, on an expedition against St. Lucia; after the reduction of which island[2], he proceeded to Jamaica, and in the Autumn of 1796, removed into the Hannibal, of 74 guns, on the same station, where he continued during the greater part of the war.
Captain Smith joined the Carnatic, of 74 guns, at Jamaica, in 1800; and, on the first day of the following year, was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral; since which, we believe, he has been on half pay. He was made a Vice-Admiral Nov. 9, 1805; and a full Admiral, Aug. 12, 1812.
Residence.– Garden Row, Southwark.