Re: Aubrey-Maturin novels


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Posted by Adam Quinan on September 28, 2008 at 21:19:43 user Adam.

In Reply to: Re: Aubrey-Maturin novels posted by Dave Thewlis on September 27, 2008 at 23:50:14:

Parkinson's first book of naval biography was The Life of Exmouth (better known as Sir Edward Pellew in the Hornblower books). So he had experience. Curiously enough two of my ancestor's, father and son both named John Thomson, served with Pellew aboard HMS Indefatigable. The father was first lieutenant and his son acting sailing master, both were promoted in 1797 as a result of the action with Droits de l'homme.

Neither of them feature in Forester's tales. The younger Thomson eventually went on to become a post captain but unlike Hornblower it took him eighteen years as a lieutenant and then a commander to be made post. He made it finally in 1815 as the Napoleonic and American wars came to an end and so he was ashore on half pay for the rest of his life. He then married Pellew's niece and his daughter married a Quinan.


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