SEVERAL JOURNALS OF EDWARD EDWIN , BORN 1849 EX ROYAL NAVY PAYMASTER JAMAICA

 A COLLECTION OF JOURNALS BELONGING TO 

ABSTRACT

 EDWARD EDWIN PAYMASTER ROYAL NAVY. EDWARD WAS THE SON OF COMMANDER FELIX EDWIN AND THE BROTHER OR ROBERT ATHERTON EDWIN 
THE SET COMPRISES OF TWO OF EDWARDS JOURNALS WHILE HE WAS AT SCHOOL AT WINBOURNE MINSTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL 
A DELIGHTFUL INSIGHT INTO A VICTORIAN SCHOOLBOYS DAILY LIFE
THE THIRD JOURNAL COVERS 6 YEARS WHILE A PAYMASTER IN THE ROYAL NAVE. DESCRIBED IN DETAIL IS HIS DAILY LIFE,.THE HORRORS OF THE YELLOW FEVER OUTBREAK ON HMS ABOUKIR IN 1873-1874 WHEN 48 OF HIS FELLOW OFFICERS AND MEN DIED OF THE FEVER
MANY COURT MARSHALS ARE ALSO MENTIONED. THEIR IS ALSO HIS SKETCH BOOK

EDWARD EDWIN PORTRAIT TAKEN IN HALIFAX

EDWINS BROTHER "BOB"ROBERT ATHERTON EDWIN IS ALSO REFERED TO
 Robert Atherton Edwin was born at Camden Town, London, England, on 16 August 1839, the son of Felix Edwin, a commander in the Royal Navy, and his wife, Marianne Atherton. After attending Wimborne Minster Grammar School, Dorset, Edwin followed family tradition by joining the Royal Navy as a cadet in January 1853. As a midshipman in theAlbion during the Crimean war he was wounded at the siege of Sevastopol in October 1854. On the East Indies station in the Elk he took part in the capture of Canton (Guangzhou) in 1857. He also served in the Pacific in the Elk, and in the Salamander and Falcon on the Australian station. It was as an officer of the Falcon that he surveyed the volcanic crater of White Island on 17 March 1868.

In 1869 the Merchant Shipping (Colonial) Act made it possible for colonies such as New Zealand to grant certificates of competency to ships' officers that would be recognised throughout the empire. Edwin was offered a special appointment to the Marine Department as an additional examiner of masters and mates; he retired from the Royal Navy with the rank of commander in February 1871 and on the 18th of the same month took up his new post. In addition to examining, he was to assist in the general work of the department, undertake marine surveying and supervise compass adjusting. However, in early 1874 he was made responsible for the newly instituted weather-reporting and storm-signalling section of the department.

DETAILS OF YELLOW FEVER OUTBREAK ON HMS ABOUKIR, JAMAICA 

 YELLOW FEAVER ABOURD HMS ABOUKIR

CRIMEA LANDINGS, EDWARDS BROTHER, ROBERT ATHERTON EDWIN WAS WOUNDED IN THE CRIMEA

FROM SKETCH BOOK

FROM SKETCH BOOK, "ROUNDING CAPE HORN"

FROM SKETCH BOOK

THERMOMETER CHART FROM HMS SPHINX ON VOYAGE TO HALIFAX FROM JAMAICA TO AVOID YELLOW FEVER

ONE OF HIS SCHOOL DAY JOURNALS

DITTO

RECORD OF EARTHQUAKE OCT 6 1863

FROM HIS MOTHERS DAY BOOK, POETRY, RECIPES ETC.

LORD SHAFTBURY'S FUNERAL

FROM MARIANNE EDWINS DAY BOOK

THE JOURNALS