Sir Edward Codrington

(1770-1851)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Codrington, Edward, Sir, 1770-1851 NRA: Codrington, Sir Edward (1770-1851) Knight Admiral DNB: Codrington, Sir Edward (1770-1851), naval officer LBT ID: EdCodri1851 VIAF ID: 57398877 LOC ID: nr2001016712	B/BAP: 1770-04-27 DIED: 1851-04-28
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Naval officer; he commanded a ship at Trafalgar and as commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean in 1827 destroyed a Turkish fleet at Navarino. In 1831 Thomas Creevey described him as “a real bore.”
REFERENCES TO Sir Edward Codrington: Lady Catherine Mackintosh to John Whishaw, [1827] in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 16 May 1831 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 18 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 8 Found 1: ¶ 11 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. IX: 1830-31 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter XIII: 1806-40 Found 1: ¶ n1