Frederick Leeds Edridge

Frederick Leeds Edridge (1800 – 3 April 1841 in Woolwich) was a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery and an amateur artist.

In 1820, he joined the Royal Artillery, and was stationed with the Sixth Battalion at Gibraltar between 1830 and 1834.

[3] Soldiering could not have been Edridge's passion in life, for he still held the rank of lieutenant by the time he left Gibraltar in 1834.

The garrison there had a good reputation in the eyes of its officers who were mainly of the hunting, shooting and fishing persuasion.

His works - mainly watercolours - verged on the naive, but have great charm and document an interesting period in the history of Gibraltar.