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{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2012}}{{Infobox military person
|name= Sir James Brisbane
|birth_date=1774
|death_date= 19 December 1826
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|death_place=[[Port Jackson]], [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]]<ref name="death">''Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985''</ref><ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB |last1=Laughtin |first1=J. K. |author-link1=J. K. Laughton |title=Brisbane, Sir James (1774–1826), naval officer |date=23 September 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/3446 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-3446 |access-date=28 March 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
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|allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[United Kingdom]]
|serviceyears= 1787 to 1826
|rank= [[Captain (Royal Navy)|Captain]]
|branch= [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] [[Royal Navy]]
|commands=HMS ''Daphne''<br/>HMS ''Cruizer''<br/>HMS ''Saturn''<br/>HMS ''Alcmene''<br/>HMS ''Belle Poule''<br/>HMS ''Vengeur''<br/> HMS ''Pembroke'' <br/>[[East Indies Station]]
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|battles= [[French Revolutionary Wars]]<br/>• [[Glorious First of June]]<br/>[[Napoleonic Wars]]<br/>• [[Adriatic campaign of 1807–1814]]<br/>[[Bombardment of Algiers (1816)|Bombardment of Algiers]]<br/>[[First Anglo–Burmese War]]
|awards= [[Knight Bachelor]]<br/>[[Companion of the Order of the Bath]]
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[[Captain (Royal Navy)|Captain]] '''Sir James Brisbane''', [[Order of the Bath|CB]] (1774 &ndash; 19 December 1826) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Royal Navy]] officer of the [[French Revolutionary Wars|French Revolutionary]] and [[Napoleonic Wars]]. Although never engaged in any major actions, Brisbane served under both [[Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe|Lord Howe]] and [[Horatio Nelson]] and performed important work at the [[Cape of Good Hope]], prior to the [[Battle of Copenhagen (1801)|Battle of Copenhagen]] and in the [[Adriatic campaign of 1807–1814]]. In later life Brisbane became commander-in-chief in the [[East Indies]]. He contracted dysentery in [[Burma]] and arrived in [[Port Jackson]] in Sydney aboard {{HMS|Warspite|1807|6}}, where he died on 19 December 1826. He was a cousin of General Sir [[Thomas Brisbane]] who had earlier been governor of New South Wales.

==Career==
James Brisbane was born in 1774, the fifth son of Admiral [[Johan Brisbane (admiral)|John Brisbane]] and the younger brother of future Admiral [[Charles Brisbane]]. In 1787, Brisbane went to sea aboard {{HMS|Culloden|1783|6}} and by 1794 he was signal [[midshipman]] aboard [[Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe|Lord Howe's]] flagship {{HMS|Queen Charlotte|1790|6}}. Brisbane served in this capacity at the [[Glorious First of June]], where ''Queen Charlotte'' was heavily engaged and badly damaged. In the aftermath of the battle, Brisbane was promoted to [[Lieutenant (navy)|lieutenant]] and was sent to the [[Cape of Good Hope]], later joining [[George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith|George Elphinstone]]'s flagship {{HMS|Monarch|1765|6}} and being present at the surrender of a Dutch squadron in [[Saldanha Bay]].<ref name="ODNB"/>
[[File:Squadron under the command of Sir J Brisbane attacking Fort Maurigio 1814.jpg|thumb|Squadron attacking Fort Maurigio in 1814, from a sketch by James Brisbane]]

Brisbane was promoted to [[Commander (Royal Navy)|commander]] and given command of one of the captured Dutch ships, the sloop {{ship|Dutch sloop|Sireene|1786|2}}, which the Royal Navy renamed ''Daphne''. When she reached Plymouth in September 1797 the Navy [[paid off]] ''Daphne'' and Brisbane was put on [[half-pay]]. Brisbane remained on half-pay until 1800; he married Jemima Ann Ventham shortly before he returned to sea in command of {{HMS|Cruizer|1797|6}}. ''Cruizer'' was attached to [[Hyde Parker (admiral)|Sir Hyde Parker]]'s Baltic fleet on commissioning and Brisbane came under the direct command of Admiral [[Horatio Nelson]], who used ''Cruizer'' to take soundings and make charts of the approaches to [[Copenhagen]] prior to the British attack on the city at the [[Battle of Copenhagen (1801)|Battle of Copenhagen]]. Brisbane impressed his superiors in this duty and in 1801 was made a [[post-captain]] and commanded {{HMS|Saturn}} under Admiral [[Thomas Totty]] until the admiral's death.<ref name="ODNB"/>

Between 1803 and 1805, Brisbane commanded the [[Kent]] [[Sea Fencibles|sea fencibles]] and in 1807 took command of {{HMS|Alcmene|1794|6}} off [[Ireland]]. In 1809, he moved to {{HMS|Belle Poule|1806|6}}, and commanded her in the [[Adriatic Sea]] and [[Ionian Sea]] in the early stages of the [[Adriatic campaign of 1807–1814]]. There Brisbane captured the {{ship|French frigate|Var}} off [[Vlorë|Valona]]. He later participated in the capture of several of the [[Ionian Islands]] and remained in the region until 1811, becoming an expert in coastal operations.<ref name="ODNB"/>

In late 1811, Brisbane took command of {{HMS|Vengeur|1810|2}}, and stayed with her for a year. He then transferred to the command of the newly built {{HMS|Pembroke|1812|6}} in the [[Channel Fleet]]. In 1813 he returned to the [[Mediterranean Sea]], where he remained for the rest of the war.<ref name="ODNB"/>

A squadron under his command, composed of ''Pembroke'' in company with [[French frigate Topaze (1805)|''Alcmene'']] and {{HMS|Aigle|1801|2}} on 11 April 1814 captured ''Fortune'', ''Notre Dame de Leusainte'', and a [[wikt:settee|settee]] of unknown name, at [[Imperia|Fort Maurigio]], in the [[Gulf of Genoa]], near [[Monaco]]. The squadron silenced the fort's guns, and attacked 20 vessels; 4 were captured, and the cargoes of another 15 taken off ships whose crews [[Scuttling|scuttled]] them.<ref name="The Naval Chronicle 1814">{{cite book |last1=Clarke |first1=James Stanier |last2=McArthur |first2=John |title=The Naval Chronicle: Volume 31, January-July 1814: Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects, Volume 31 |date=1814 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=506 |edition=Reprint 2010 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8BFL0hyMALQC&pg=PA506 |access-date=30 June 2018 |chapter=Naval History of the present year, 1814|isbn=9781108018708 }}</ref><ref name="Grosvenor">{{cite web |title=The squadron under the command of Sir J. Brisbane attacking Fort Maurigio. From a sketch by Sir J. Brisbane |url=https://www.grosvenorprints.com/stock_detail.php?ref=25149 |website=grosvenorprints.com |access-date=30 June 2018}}</ref><ref name="NMM RMG">{{cite web |title=The Squadron under the command of Sir J Brisbane attacking Fort Maurigio. From a sketch by Sir J Brisbane |url=http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/109999.html |website=collections.rmg.co.uk |access-date=30 June 2018}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|A first-class share of the prize money was worth [[£sd|£]]95 4[[shilling|s]] 0[[pence|d]]; a sixth-class share, that of an ordinary seaman, was worth 12s 7d.<ref>{{London Gazette|page=2009|issue=16943|date=8 October 1814}}</ref>|group=Note}}

He was appointed a [[Companion of the Order of the Bath]] on 16 September 1815.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=17061|page=1877|date=16 September 1815}}</ref>
In 1816, ''Pembroke'' was attached to the force under [[Edward Pellew|Lord Exmouth]] that [[Bombardment of Algiers (1816)|bombarded Algiers]] and on his return home, as captain of {{HMS|Queen Charlotte|1810|6}}, Brisbane was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=17179|page=1915|date=5 October 1816}}</ref>

In 1825, Brisbane was made commander-in-chief of the [[East Indies Station]] and sailed there as [[Commodore (Royal Navy)|commodore]], arriving in 1826 and taking part in the latter stages of the [[First Anglo-Burmese War]], in which he had some success in riverine operations. During the campaign however he contracted a fatal illness and died from it aboard {{HMS|Warspite|1807|6}} in [[Sydney]] in 1826.<ref name="death"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Death of Sir James Brisbane |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000819/18270528/017/0003 |access-date=28 March 2019 |work=Dublin Morning Register |date=28 May 1827 |page=3 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

Brisbane is remembered as a popular and capable commander whose expertise was focused on coastal and riverine operations, which he conducted with success throughout his career.<ref name="ODNB"/>

==Memorial==
[[File:Memorial to Brisbane in St James Church, Sydney.jpg|thumb|The memorial to Sir James Brisbane in [[St James' Church, Sydney]]]]
A memorial to Sir James Brisbane was erected in [[St James' Church, Sydney]] in 1830.

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==Further reading==
* {{Cite book |chapter=[[s:Royal Naval Biography/Brisbane, James|Sir James Brisbane, Knt.]] |title=Royal Naval Biography |last=Marshall |first=John |year=1823 |location=London |publisher=Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown |pages=936–937 |via=Wikisource}}

==External links==
*{{Find a Grave|123722565}}

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