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Sir James John Gordon Bremer, KCB, KCH (26 September 1786 – 14 February 1850) was a British Royal Navy officer. He served in the Napoleonic Wars, First Anglo-Burmese War, and First Anglo-Chinese War. In China, he served twice as commander-in-chief of British forces. Born in Portsea, Portsmouth, Bremer joined the Royal Navy in 1794. While serving in the East Indies, he became commander of HMS ''Rattlesnake''. He was promoted to captain in 1814 and was nominated a CB the following year. After becoming commander of HMS ''Tamar'', he was sent to Melville Island, Australia, in 1824 to establish a colony. Under his leadership, the north coast of Australia from 129° to 135° longitude was claimed as British territory. Bremer served twice as commander-in-chief of British forces in the First Anglo-Chinese War from 1839 to 1841. During the war, he took formal possession of Hong Kong Island for the United Kingdom in 1841. He was made a KCB the same year. In 1846, he was appointed second-in-command of the Channel Fleet and was superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard from which he retired in 1848. He died in 1850, having risen to the rank of rear-admiral. == Early career == Bremer was born on 26 September 1786 in Portsea.〔Laughton, J. K.. "Bremer, Sir James John Gordon (1786–1850)". ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (2004 ed.). Oxford University Press. .〕 He was the only son of Royal Navy lieutenant James Bremer (who went missing in the East Indiaman ''Halswell'' off the coast of Dorset, England, on 6 January 1786) and his wife Ann, daughter of Captain James Norman. In 1794, he joined the Royal Navy as a first-class volunteer on board the flagship of HMS ''Sandwich'' at the Nore of Rear-Admiral Skeffington Lutwidge, from which he was discharged in June 1795. He became a student of the Royal Naval Academy in Portsmouth, and re-embarked on 2 April 1802 as a midshipman on board HMS ''Endymion'' of Captain Philip Durham. Until July 1805, Bremer served in the flagship of HMS ''Isis'' under Vice-Admiral James Gambier and Rear-Admiral Edward Thornbrough, on the Newfoundland and North Sea stations. Shortly after passing his examination, he was appointed sub-lieutenant of the gun-brig HMS ''Rapid''. On 3 August 1805, he became a lieutenant on board HMS ''Captain'' as part of William Cornwallis' force in pursuing a French fleet in Brest, France. On 9 May 1806, Bremer was appointed to HMS ''Diana'' of Captain Thomas James Maling in the Mediterranean Station, from where he proceeded to the Davis Strait. On 6 October 1806, he served on board HMS ''Imogen'' of Captain Thomas Garth in the Mediterranean. On 28 May 1807, he was appointed to the ''Psyché'' of Captain William Wooldridge in the East Indies, where he became commander of HMS ''Rattlesnake'' on 13 October.〔 He became a captain on 7 June 1814.〔''(Dictionary of National Biography )'' (1892). Volume 6. pp. 256–257.〕 On 4 June 1815, he was nominated a Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath (CB).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Bremer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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