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Edward Edwards

1728–1815

Best known as the Royal Navy officer who commanded HMS Pandora on its 1790 voyage to hunt down the Bounty mutineers, he remains a striking figure from the age of exploration and empire. His career links naval warfare, long Pacific voyages, and one of the most famous maritime stories in British history.

4 Audiobooks

Voyage of H.M.S. 'Pandora' : despatched to arrest the mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-91

Voyage of H.M.S. 'Pandora' : despatched to arrest the mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-91

by Edward Edwards, surgeon George Hamilton

The Escape of a Princess Pat

The Escape of a Princess Pat

by Edward Edwards, George Pearson

Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 2 of 2

Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 2 of 2

by Edward Edwards

Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 1 of 2

Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 1 of 2

by Edward Edwards

About the author

Born in 1728, Edward Edwards served in the Royal Navy and later reached flag rank. He is most often remembered for commanding HMS Pandora, the ship sent in 1790 to capture the mutineers from HMS Bounty after Fletcher Christian's rebellion.

The Pandora voyage carried Edwards across the Pacific in search of the fugitives, and several of the mutineers were eventually taken into custody. The expedition is also remembered for disaster: Pandora was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef in 1791 during the return journey.

Edwards died in 1815. Although he is not chiefly known as a literary figure, his name appears in historical writing because of his central role in one of the most retold episodes in British naval history.