A half-length portrait, very slightly to the right, showing Pasco in his lieutenant’s undress uniform of the 1827–43 pattern with a telescope under his right arm.
William Montagu Isaacson George Pasco was the eldest son of Rear-Admiral John Pasco (see BHC2284). He entered the Navy on 3 February 1820 and was promoted lieutenant on 8 January 1830. He served two commissions on the South American station: the first in the 50-gun ‘Dublin’, 1831–34, and the second in the 18-gun ‘Rover’, 1835–38. Between 1838 and 1842, he served in the Coast Guard. On 18 May 1842 he was appointed to command the steamer ‘Kite’ off the African coast, returning the following year, and on 7 April 1845 he took command of the steamer ‘Jackal’ in the Mediterranean. The ‘Kite’ was paid off in 1846 and Pasco was promoted commander on 9 November that year.