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词条 Aaron Tozer
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{{Infobox person
| name = Aaron Tozer
| birth_date = 1788
| death_date = 1854
}}

Aaron Tozer (born 1788, died 1854), was a captain in the Royal Navy.

Life

Tozer was born in 1788, entered the Navy in June 1801 on board {{HMS|Phoebe|1795|6}}, with Captain Thomas Baker, on the Irish station. He afterwards served in the East Indies and on the home station, and, again with Baker, in {{HMS|Phoenix|1783|6}}, in the action of 10 August 1805 he was present at the capture of the French frigate {{HMS|Didon|1805|2}},[1][2][3] then carrying important despatches from Vice-Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve at Ferrol to Rochefort. Tozer was dangerously wounded in the shoulder, and, after passing his examination, was specially promoted to be lieutenant on 11 August 1807. After serving in the 74-gun {{HMS|York|1807|6}} at the reduction of Madeira and in the West Indies, he was appointed, in December 1808, to {{HMS|Victorious|1808|6}}, in which he took part in the Walcheren expedition in July and August 1809; and afterwards in the Mediterranean, in the defence of Sicily, June to September 1810, during which time he was repeatedly engaged in actions between the boats and the vessels of Murat's flotilla; and on 22 February 1812 at the capture of {{ship|French ship|Rivoli|1810|2}} (see also Sir John Talbot). In February 1813 he was appointed to {{HMS|Undaunted|1807|2}}, and during the following months repeatedly commanded her boats in storming the enemy's batteries or cutting out trading and armed vessels from under their protection.

On 18 August 1813 in an attack, in force, on the batteries of Cassis, when the citadel battery was carried by escalade and three gunboats and twenty-four merchant vessels were brought out. Tozer was severely wounded by a canister shot in the groin and by a musket shot in the left hand. In consequence of these wounds he was invalided; on 15 July 1814 was promoted to commander, and in December 1815 awarded a pension of £150 a year. From 1818 to 1822 he commanded {{HMS|Cyrene|1814|6}} in the West Indies; in 1829 the yacht {{ship|HMY|William & Mary|1807|2}}.

On 14 January 1830 he was promoted to post rank, but had no further employment, and died at Plymouth on 21 February 1854.

Family

He married, in June 1827, Mary, eldest daughter of Henry Hutton of Lincoln, and had one son, the Rev. Henry Fanshawe Tozer, fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.[4][5][6][7][8][9]

References

1. ^James, Naval History, iv. 66–74
2. ^Troude, Batailles Navales, iii. 425–6
3. ^Chevalier, Hist. de la Marine Française, iii. 179
4. ^O'Byrne's Nav. Biogr. Dictionary
5. ^Marshall's Roy. Nav. Biogr. x. (volume iii. part ii.) 110
6. ^Gentlemen's Magazine 1854, ii. 77
7. ^James's Naval History
8. ^Navy Lists.
9. ^{{Cite DNB |vb=yes |author=John Knox Laughton |wstitle=Tozer, Aaron |volume=57 |pages=139–140}}

DNB references

These references are found in the DNB article referred to above.

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External links

  • {{Wikisource-inline|Tozer, Aaron (DNB00)|Dictionay of National Biography: Tozer, Aaron}}
  • {{Wikisource-inline|A_Naval_Biographical_Dictionary/Tozer,_Aaron|A Naval Biographical Dictionary: Tozer, Aaron}}
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