BiographyEdward Mickleburgh was born at Margate, England, in 1814 and is known to have spent four years in the army. It is unclear exactly how Mickleburgh arrived in Australian waters and or how he was associated with Ben Boyd. Records indicate he may have been a captain active along the coast of Victoria in the early 1840s, living in Port Phillip with his wife and daughter, until moving to Sydney around 1843.