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Admiral Sir Edward Belcher KCB (27 February 1799 – 18 March 1877) was a British naval officer, hydrographer, and explorer. [1] Born in Nova Scotia, he was the great-grandson of Jonathan Belcher, who served as a colonial governor of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New Jersey.
Sir Edward Belcher (born 1799, Halifax, Nova Scotia [now in Canada]—died March 18, 1877, London, Eng.) was a naval officer who performed many coastal surveys for the British Admiralty. The grandson of a governor of Nova Scotia, Belcher entered the navy in 1812.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Admiral Sir Edward Belcher (1799-1877) of the British Royal Navy was one of the most capable naval commanders of his era. He was a wise, generous, and merciful man who was deeply devoted to the welfare of the men under his leadership.
Dec 18, 2007 · Sir Edward Belcher, naval surveyor, explorer (born 27 February 1799 in Halifax, NS; died 18 March 1877 in London, England). As a surveyor, he participated in major British naval expeditions to the Bering Strait, Africa, the Americas and the Far East.
Edward Belcher, a grandson of Jonathan Belcher*, chief justice of Nova Scotia, moved from Halifax to England with his family in November 1811. On 9 April 1812 he entered the Royal Navy as a first class volunteer, a rank which indicated that he was destined for an officer’s career.
- Basil Stuart-Stubbs
- BELCHER, Sir EDWARD
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 10
Sir Edward Belcher (1799- ----- 1877) was the descendant of an old and distinguished. New England family, whose founder in the New World was Andrew Belcher , born 1615, son of Thomas Belcher of London. Andrew Belcher's name. first appears in New England in 1659. His great-grandson was Chief.
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Prominent in the important but routine survey work undertaken by the British Navy around the globe after the Napoleonic wars, a spectacular failure as an arctic explorer, and most unpopular officer the in fleet, Sir Edward Belcher remains today in relative, perhaps deserved, obscurity.
