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About Charles Brisbane
Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Brisbane, KCB was a Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Saint Vincent from 1808 to 1829. During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, he took part in 1796 in the capitulation of Saldanha Bay, the capture of the Spanish frigate Pomona off Havana, Cuba in 1806, and then in 1807 was in command at capture of the island of Curaçao. He was made governor of St. Vincent in 1808, and served as such until his death in 1829.
Everything about Charles Brisbane →- Occupation
- naval officer, governor
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- 1769
- Died
- December 1829