Edward Chappell

Born in Hothfield, Kent, on 10 August 1792, Edward Chappell entered the Royal Navy as a boy and served during the Napoleonic Wars. Records of his career note action in the West Indies and at Cádiz, where he was badly injured before being promoted lieutenant in 1811.

Chappell is best remembered as the author of two voyage narratives based on patrols aboard HMS Rosamond: Voyage of His Majesty’s Ship Rosamond to Newfoundland and the Southern Coast of Labrador and Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson’s Bay. These books grew out of his journals from voyages in 1813 and 1814 and are still valued for their descriptions of North Atlantic settlements, fisheries, Arctic scenery, and the peoples he met along the way.

He later rose in rank in the navy, and biographical sources identify him as both a naval officer and an author. He died in London on 21 January 1861. No clearly verified portrait image was confirmed from the sources I found, so no profile image is included here.