Alexander Thomas Emeric Vidal
1792–1863
Naval officer. Entered the Royal Navy in 1803; achieved the rank of rear admiral in 1851. Surveyed the coast of Africa and the Azores.
Source
ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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