Sir Robert Howe Bromley, 3rd Baronet.
British Royal Navy admiral (1778-1857)
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About Sir Robert Howe Bromley, 3rd Baronet
Admiral Sir Robert Howe Bromley, 3rd Baronet, was a Royal Navy officer of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. After joining the navy in 1791 under the auspices of his relative Captain Henry Curzon, he participated in the Macartney Embassy to China as a midshipman and also spent time serving in the English Channel and Mediterranean Sea. Promoted to lieutenant in 1798, he served in the North Sea Fleet and on the Jamaica Station before returning to the Channel to serve off the Channel Islands in the sloop of war HMS Pelican which was heavily damaged in a storm in late 1800. Soon after this he was promoted to commander and again served in the North Sea, before being promoted to post captain in 1802.
Everything about Sir Robert Howe Bromley, 3rd Baronet →- Occupation
- naval officer
- Position held
- High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire
- Born
- November 28, 1778
- Died
- July 8, 1857