Personnel Profile
Philip Durham
Sea officer
Philip Durham served in a role connected with the Royal Navy during napoleonic wars. This career belongs to the broader professional and institutional history of Britain’s maritime world.
He is associated with long sea service and fighting career in wartime conditions. This formed part of the way maritime service operated through discipline, knowledge, administration, or specialist expertise.
He is significant because this biography helps widen the personnel record beyond the most famous combat commanders. Philip Durham belongs to the broader human history of British naval and maritime service.