On Monday, the 17th instant, at Sandford parsonage, Wilts, aged 25, Thomas Bolton Girdlestone, Esq., R.N., third son of the Rev. Henry Girdlestone, and grand-nephew of the illustrious Nelson. Following the example of the hero of Trafalgar, he entered the navy in 1831; and after serving eleven years as midshipman and mate, in the West Indies, East India and China, and the Coast of Africa, he invalided from the latter station, to die in the bosom of his family, a victim of consumption and disappointed expectations.
The Illustrated London News, London, England, Week Ending October 22, 1842
