Charles Lydiard

(d. 1807)

LBT ID: ChLydia1807	DIED: 1807-12-29
SOURCES: William O. S. Gilly, Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; Between 1793 and 1849 (2007) 94-98
Captain of the Anson frigate who died heroically when his vessel wrecked near Helston in Cornwall; he had entered the service in 1780.
REFERENCES TO Charles Lydiard: Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 27