Richard Charles Mayne

Richard Charles Mayne, CB, FGS (1835 – 29 May 1892) was a British admiral and explorer.

Mayne was the son of Sir Richard Mayne (the first joint commissioner of the Metropolitan Police) and the grandson of Judge Edward Mayne. Both his father and grandfather were graduates of Trinity College, Dublin. He was a scion of a family that settled at Mount Sedborough in County Fermanagh and later at Freame Mount, County Cavan in Ireland [BLGI, 1886] .

Richard Charles Mayne was a Captain, later Admiral, with the Royal Navy, in command of HMS "Nassau" on the survey expedition to the Straits of Magellan, 1866–9 [Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885--1912] . He sailed, as Lieutenant, with Captain George Henry Richards on his expedition in HMS "Plumper" to survey the coast of British Columbia (1857-1859), and there came to serve in the Royal Engineers under Colonel Richard Moody and was assigned the exploration and mapping of hitherto unknown parts of the colony. His journal of these activities is a classic source of British Columbia history. Mayne Island in the Gulf Islands is named after him. After retiring from the navy, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Welsh constituency of Pembroke and Haverfordwest, serving until his death shortly before the 1892 general election. [ [http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/pcommons1.htm Historical list of MPs: P] , at Leigh Rayment's Peerage pages]

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