#Frederick Edridge

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Croydon's LIfeboat parades that answered a Mayday appeal

Big day out: Croydon’s Lifeboat Day parade in 1908. A regular, if not annual event, it raised precious money for an enduring cause SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Newspaper archive reports going back more than a century reveal a regular Croydon town centre fund-raiser: the Lifeboat Day procession, as DAVID MORGAN takes us back in time… The RNLI, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, celebrates its 200th…

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French leave: being absent without permission (Admiral W.H. Smyth, The Sailor's Word-Book)

A midshipman’s vacancy having occurred on board the frigate, the captain offered it to me. I gladly accepted of it; and while he was in the humour, I asked him for a week’s leave of absence; this he also granted, adding, at the same time, “No more French leave, if you please.”

— Frederick Marryat, Frank Mildmay (The Naval Officer)

The Hon. George Pryse Cambell (1793-1858), as a Midshipman (detail) by Henry Edridge, 1805.

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Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843)

By Henry Edridge, 1806.