Royal Naval Biography/Waller, Edmund
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EDMUND WALLER. Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1817.]
Was severely wounded while serving as lieutenant under Captain, now Sir Richard Goodwin Keats, in the action between the Superb and San Antonio, French 2-decker, on the morning of July 13, 1801[1]. We next find him acting commander of the Wolf sloop, in which vessel he captured the Braganza Spanish privateer, of one gun and 54 men, on the Jamaica station. May 1, 1808. His appointment to her was confirmed July 20th following. He subsequently commanded the Goldfinch brig, on the north coast of Spain; and was removed from her to the Pheasant sloop, Oct. 9, 1814. His post commission bears date Jan. 1, 1817.
Agent.– Sir F. M. Ommanney.