A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Addis, Edward Brown
ADDIS. (Lieut., 1811. F.P., 19; H-P., 25.)
Edward Brown Addis entered the Navy, 13 Aug, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Excellent 74, Capt. Frank Sotheron, employed in the defence of the Bay of Naples; removed as Midshipman, in July, 1806, to the Zealous 74, Capt. John Okes Hardy; and on next joining the Athenienne 64, Capt. Robt. Raynsford, was wrecked, on the Esquerques Rocks, near Sicily, 8 Oct. following, on which occasion the Commander and 396 of the crew were lost. He then became attached to the Saturn 74, Capt. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, off Cadiz, and on his return to England in the Royal George, flag-ship of Sir John Duckworth, joined, in Oct. 1807, the Barracouta, Capt. Geo. Harris, under whom (with the exception of a brief attachment, during the summer of 1810, to the Russell 74, flagship of Rear-Admiral Wm. O’Brien Drury) he continued principally to serve, both in the Barracouta and in the Sir Francis Drake frigate, the last two years as Lieutenant (commission dated 9 Aug. 1811), until June, 1813. In Aug. 1810, Mr. Addis ably assisted, as Acting Lieutenant, at the destruction by the boats of the Sir Francis Drake and of the Belliqueux 64, under the immediate orders of Lieut. Joseph Prior, of a French privateer and two gun-vessels, beneath a continued fire from the batteries of Bantam, in Java;[1] and on 23 May, 1811, he again served in the boats, and contributed, in a most undaunted gallant manner, to the capture, off Rembang, of a fiercely defended flotilla of Dutch gun-vessels and armed proas.[2] Being next appointed, 11 Aug. 1813, to the Dasher sloop, Capt. Wm. Henderson, he served on the West India station, whither he accompanied the outward-bound trade, until placed on half-pay in Nov. 1814; after which, from Sept. 1824 until 1830, he appears to have been employed on the Coast Blockade as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies and Hyperion, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Wm. Jas. Mingaye. Since the latter date he has again been on half-pay.
Lieut. Addis received in 1842, and still holds, the appointment of Crown Commissioner at Port Philip. He married, 9 March, 1826, Elizabeth, daughter of the late Lieut. Mc Arthur, of Haslar.