Brisbane, Admiral Sir Charles, a naval officer of distinction under Lords Hood and Nelson; captured in 1796 Dutch warships, three ships of the line among them, in Saldanha Bay, and in 1807 the island of Curaçoa; was made governor of St. Vincent (1769‒1829).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Brisbane * Brisbane, Sir James