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Auction: 1025 - The Turl Collection of Naval General Service Medals 1793 - 1840
Lot: 59

Miniature Award: The Naval General Service Medal Attributed to Chaplain J.B. Frowd, Royal Navy Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Algiers, contemporarily engraved in serif capitals ´I.B. Frowd. Chaplain.´, extremely fine Estimate £ 300-400 John Frowd served as Chaplain in Lord Exmouth´s Flagship H.M.S. Queen Charlotte when the combined English and Dutch fleets attacked the heavily fortified town of Algiers, 27.8.1816. The Rev. Dr. John Brickenden Frowd, M.A., D.D., educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford; entered the Royal Navy as Chaplain, April 1811; appointed to H.M.S. Caledonia, May 1811; Boyne, March 1815; and Queen Charlotte, July 1816, flag-ships of Edward Pellew, Lord Exmouth in the Mediterranean; present in the partial actions with the French Fleet, 5.11.1813 and 13.2.1814, and at the bombardment of Algiers; appointed to H.M.S. Impregnable, September 1807; Britannia, January 1823; and Ocean, December 1823. Dr. Frowd was placed on the retired list, 1825, and appointed Senior Dean and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

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