Thank you Mick and Turtle for the additional info about Admiral Fishbourne. He will certainly figure in my book about the Carlow Fishbournes, which is currently under construction. Edmund Gardiner looks like a chip off the old block, his father William, but with better morals! Kaye Cole > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 17:16:05 +0100 > From: Michael Purcell <carlowmike@gmail.com> > Subject: [IRL-CARLOW] 1887, Admiral Edmond Gardiner Fishbourne. > To: irl-carlow@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <CAKqwSs5zxs7h7xt3QXu0dnPPc4Eh8yrk9k+hT0BZL7To9sK0FQ@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Carlow Sentinel. > May 1887. > [ extract from obituary ] > Death of Admiral Fishbourne, C.B. > We regret to announce the almost sudden death of another illustrious > Carlow > man, YOUNGEST AND LAST SURVIVING SON OF William Fishbourne, J.P. ( last > Sovereign of Carlow ), entered Royal Navy in 1824, distinguished navy > career. Colleague of Lord Shaftsbury. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 17:53:44 +0100 > From: "Turtle Bunbury (History)" <turtlehistory@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [IRL-CARLOW] 1887, Admiral Edmond Gardiner Fishbourne. > To: irl-carlow@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <2AE9D3B6-D67F-4372-877A-7029DD00DC4F@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > Thanks for this Mick. > > The Lisnavagh Archives (G4/1/6) contains a letter of 1856 written by a > rather irate Captain Edmund [sic] Gardiner Fishbourne (1811-1887) to > Captain McClintock Bunbury in which he felt the Admiralty had ?cast a slur > on me? when he learned from the Duke of Newcastle that they had rejected > his application for a CB (for his services in the 2nd Anglo-Burmese War of > 1852-1853) ?in favour of [Hardwicke] a man several years my junior.? > > Fishbourne had been the senior officer at Rangoon and was the Second in > Command under Commodore Lambert during the war. However, while his > services were recognized by the Governor General and military top brass, > he was overlooked in favour of Commanders Tarleton and Shadwell. He felt > the Admiralty were unjust in ?reprimanding me and in not making > reparations when they found they were wrong.? He hoped Captain McC B would > mention it to Admiral Beechey, ?not as a matter of friendship or favour > but as of basic justice?. ... >