1. Christopher Biden came from the village of Houghton in Huntingdonshire.
10 Facts About Christopher Biden
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Biden and his younger brother William Henry Biden went to sea at a young age, their father having died in 1797.
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In 1818 Christopher Biden married Harriott Freeth in Great Wilne, a village in Derbyshire close to the town of Sandiacre where his brother was curate.
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Between 1807 and 1818 Christopher Biden completed seven return voyages to India as a mate on the East Indiaman Royal George.
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Christopher Biden then spent two years in Blackheath with his family, publishing a book on naval discipline in 1830.
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In 1839 Christopher Biden returned to India to take up the position of Master Attendant and Marine Storekeeper at Madras.
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Christopher Biden founded the Biden Home for Destitute Seamen at Royapuram.
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Christopher Biden died at Madras in February 1858 at the age of 68 and is commemorated by a plaque in St George's Cathedral.
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Christopher Biden was survived by two sons and a daughter, another daughter having died on the voyage out to India in 1839.
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Harriott Christopher Biden kept a common-place book with newspaper cuttings, letters, etc.