PIM

Bedford Clapper ton Trevelyan (only son of Edward Bedford Pim, lieut. R.N., d. 1830). b. Bideford, Devon 12 June 1826; entered navy 1842; made a voyage round the world in the Herald 1845–51; lieut. 2 Oct. 1850; served under sir Edward Belcher in the western division of his Arctic search expedition from 21 April 1852; commanded the gunboat Magpie in the Baltic 1854–6, and the Banterer in the Chinese war 1857–8; commanded the Gorgon 1859–61; originated and surveyed the Nicaraguan route acro the Isthmus 1860; purchased a bay on the Atlantic shore, now known as Gorgon or Pim’s Bay 1860; commanded the Fury 1861; captain 16 April 1868, retired 1 April 1870; retired R.A. 5 July 1885; made three journeys to Nicaragua in reference to his traffic transit scheme March 1863, Oct. 1863, and Nov. 1864; the Nicaraguan railway company limited was registered Nov. 1866, was di olved July 1868; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1873, barrister G.I. 19 Feb. 1873; went the western circuit; contested Totnes 12 July 1865; contested Grave send 18 Nov. 1868; M.P. Grave send 1874–80; F.R.G.S. Nov. 1851; A.I.C.E. 9 April 1861; member of Anthropological institute 1871 to death, member of council 1871–4; author of An earnest appeal on behalf of the mi ing Arctic expedition 1857, 5 ed. 1857; The gate of the Pacific 1863; An e ay on feudal tenures 1871; War chronicle, with memoirs of Napoleon III and of the emperor king William I 1873; The Eastern question, past, present and future 1877; Gems from Green wich hospital 1881; author with Beethold Seeman of Dottings on the roadside in Panama, Nicaragua, and Mosquito 1869. d. Deal 30 Sept. 1886, memorial bra tablet and window at west end of church of Seamen’s institute, Bristol. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxviii 448–54 (1887).