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Rear Admiral Charles John Austen CB (23 June 1779 – 7 October 1852) was an officer in the Royal Navy and the youngest brother of novelist Jane Austen. He served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and beyond, eventually rising to the rank of rear-admiral.
9 de out. de 2009 · Charles Austen was one of two of Jane’s brother’s who chose the Royal Navy as a profession when Britain was at the height of its naval power during the Napoleonic wars, and global expansion during the 19th-century.
18 de mai. de 2023 · Charles Austen (1779 – 1852) Charles followed his brother into the Royal Naval Academy in 1791. His first commission was in his cousin’s ship, the Daedalus. In 1797, he was promoted to lieutenant for his part in the Battle of Camperdown.
Charles Austen served on a guardship at Nore, with his family often on board, for three years. These two installations were England’s most important naval bases at a time when a French invasion was feared whenever the weather and winds were right.
Charles John Austen (1779-1852) was the sixth and youngest brother. He also entered the Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth at the age of 12 in 1791. He fought in the British navy during the Napoleonic wars with his brother Frank.
Austen, Charles Bridges (1803–67), see Knight. Austen, Charles John (1779–1852) (CJA): at Steventon: 1779, 1782; at RN Academy: 1791–4; volunteer and midshipman: 1794–6; lieutenant: 1797–1803; commander: 1804; post–captain: 1810; admiral: 1846; marriages: 1807, 1820;
A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. For more than thirty years Deirdre Le Faye, one of the world’s leading authorities on Jane Austen, has been gathering and organising every single piece of information available about the Austen family before, during and after Jane’s lifetime.
