"1770-1852. He was born on 22 January 1770 at Plymouth, the sixth surviving and youngest son of the physician, Dr. John Mudge, and the second child of his third wife Elizabeth Garrett. His elder half-brother was Major-General William Mudge. The family was connected to the Pitt family through an association with the 1st Lord Camelford, and Admiral the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe was Mudge s godfather.
On 1 November 1780 Mudge was entered onto the books of the Foudroyant 84, Captain John Jervis, and he was aboard that ship when she captured the French sail of the line P gase 74 on 20 April 1782, whereupon he joined the prize which was briefly commanded by Captain Hon. George Cranfield Berkeley in home waters.
Following the peace in 1783 he served aboard the Sampson 64, Captain George Hope, and the Perseus 20, Captain George Palmer, which vessel was employed out of Liverpool and off Ireland until she was paid off in February 1787. He saw further service aboard the Leander 50, Captain Sir James Barclay, who flew the flag of Rear-Admiral Herbert Sawyer at Halifax in 1787, and thereafter was employed on the Plymouth-based guardship Bombay Castle 74, Captain Robert Fanshawe…"
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