Fortescue Graham

General Sir Fortescue Graham KCB (1794 – 9 October 1880) was a senior Royal Marines officer, serving for 62 years and seeing active service in the Napoleonic, Peninsular, and War of 1812, and later in Spain, China, and the Baltic campaign 1854.

Subsequently, he served with the 1st Battalion of Royal Marines[3] in Portugal and in the north of Spain, including the capture and defence of Castro Urdiales.

When the brigade was broken up, Graham accompanied the battalion to Canada, and was sent in charge of a division of gunboats to attack an American battery at the head of Lake Champlain, with which he was engaged several hours.

In July–August 1854 Graham commanded a brigade of marines at the capture of Bomarsund Fortress, in Åland, during the Baltic campaign, and was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in July 1855.

After her death in 1859, he married Jane Mary, the daughter of Captain Lowcay, Royal Navy, and widow of Admiral William Blight, she died in 1866.