Richard Charles Mayne
1835–92
Naval officer. Joined the navy in 1847. Served in the Crimean War, 1854–6; on Vancouver Island and in British Columbia, 1857–61; in New Zealand, 1863–4. Commanded the survey expedition to the Strait of Magellan, 1866–9.
Source
ODNB s.v. Mayne, Sir Richard.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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