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Darwin Correspondence Project

Alexander Derbishire

1806–41

Naval serviceman. Son of Philip and Anne Derbishire. Mate of the Beagle; left the ship at Rio de Janeiro in 1832. Probably the lieutenant on HMS Victor who died off Cuba while lent to HMS Comus, 1841.

Sources

London, England, Church of England baptisms, marriages and burials, 1538–1812 (Ancestry.com, accessed 10 July 2017)

Nautical magazine and naval chronicle, 1841, p. 719

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