by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Edge, William (1823)
“ On the 29th of the same month, he obtained the rank of Post-Captain; from which period we lose sight of him until the establishment of Sea Fencibles in the spring of 1798, when he was appointed to the command of the district between Harwich and Yarmouth, having his residence at South wold. Early in 1809, he succeeded the present Lientenant-Governor of Greenwich Hospital, as one of the Captains of that establishment ”
