The
Irish Sea-Officers of the Royal Navy, 1793-1815
Anthony Gary Brown
© 1999, 2004;
First published in “The Irish Sword”,
the Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland, Vol. XXI, No. 86,
Winter 1999, pp.393-429
The distinguished historian Brian Lavery
has noted in his recent Shipboard Life
and Organisation, 1731-1815 that there is a renewed interest in social
structure in the Georgian Royal Navy, particularly as it relates to matters of
discipline and fighting spirit - or lack thereof - in individual ships,
squadrons or fleets. The present article
is intended to facilitate, rather than substantively advance, such debate by
turning in a systematic fashion to something that has from time to time
interested the Irish Sword: who were
the Irish officers of the Navy in any given period? Listed below are some 650 sea-officers, Irish
by birth, family or marriage, who served during the intermittent wars with
France, Spain and Holland and the USA that were fought between 1793 and 1815, a
time that may fairly be said to have established the claim that ‘Britannia
rules the waves’[1].
By sea-officers and my chosen dates
I mean men who held the rank of Midshipman or above[2]
in the Royal Navy after 1793 but before 1815[3]. Naturally some of these would have been far
too old to see any active service at all and some rather to young to have been
of very much use when they did. In each
case, I have given the most senior and rank and title known to have been
achieved by the officer by the end of his life.
Excluded from the list, purely on the grounds of non-availability of
systematically organised biographical information, are officers of the Royal
Marines, non-commissioned officers (bosuns, sailing masters, parsons, pursers
etc.) and civil officers of the Navy establishment (Admiralty administrators
and the like).
The list is further restricted to
those men who can be shown with some
considerable degree of certainty, based on the chief biographical sources,
to have had very strong connections to Ireland.
Consequently, it is certain to be a considerable understatement of its
target set[4]. As will be seen from the section below
discussing the sources of information, fame, infamy, longevity or distinction
of family are the usual ways by which ‘Irishness’ (or ‘Scottishness’,
‘Englishness’ and so on) are brought to light.
The obscure, the relatively short-lived, the less-well-connected may
even have made up the bulk of the officer class of the period, but of them we
often know little more than name, rank and - perhaps - ships served in. That proportion of them that must surely have
been Irish cannot yet find their way onto this list. Again as will be seen below, even those who
do attract biographical attention may not always have their family origins
revealed, perhaps because these are obscure, or not thought to be of
significance, or - quite commonly - perhaps too well-known to their
contemporaries to need comment. For the
most part the sources focus on the paternal lineage of their officers, this
being indicated in my list as some variant of the phrase ‘Irish family’; I have only given the father’s full name
where this varies from that of the son (e.g. in titled families). Where officers’ mothers or wives are also
said to be Irish, I have so indicated[5],
in each case of course using the maiden name where known. As to Irish location, I have usually
indicated County association alone, although the sources are often either far
more specific or maddeningly vague.
Where my list deals with families
with large numbers of naval members, it has often been convenient to summarise
the links between them in just one of the entries. In looking up, say, an individual Seymour, it
will prove useful to scan through all the Seymour entries. Furthermore, in
using alphabetically-organised naval sources such as O’Byrne and Syrett &
DiNardo, it is tempting to conclude that men of identical or similar name to a
known Irishman must be Irishman themselves, especially if the dates given hint
at sons, brothers or cousins [6]. I have resisted this temptation unless the
Irishness can be confirmed from some other source. Nevertheless, scanning these tantalizing
names will provide a spur to further research.
Although the sheer length of the
list itself, and the necessity of prefacing it with a critical apparatus on the
sources, precludes extensive comment here on the uses to which it might be put,
it is worth highlighting a few facts and features in some way revealing of the
Royal Navy of the time. For example, the
highest service rank was Admiral of the Fleet and during the period in question
this position - in truth rather more honorific than active[7]
- was held successively by four men, the Hon. John Forbes, Lord Howe, Sir Peter
Parker and HRH Prince William, Duke of Clarence; all appear in the list below,
the first three Irish by birth or family, the last a man with the strongest, if
somewhat irregular, Irish connections.
Nor will readers be surprised that some of the most famous and dashing
names in naval history appear: Pakenham, Seymour, Blackwood, Drury, Fitton,
various O’Briens, and Troubridge, an officer thought by the Earl of St. Vincent
to be Nelson’s equal[8]. As well as individual officers of great note,
there are also some remarkable family groupings: the Rowleys, Moriartys,
Graves’s, Digbys, Gardners, Gores, Stopfords and Jones’s amongst them. In connections through marriage, the ladies
of the Dawson and Blennerhasset families deserve their own chapter in the
social history of the Navy!
Readers who follow up the biographical references will also find that a good
number of RN ships appear to have had largely Irish quarterdecks (just as an
example, Sir Henry Blackwood’s HMS Euryalus
at the Battle of Trafalgar). Quite apart
from the insights this may give us into career paths amongst the officer class,
one may perhaps wonder whether relationships between officers - individual or
in cliques - of the Protestant
ascendancy and the many lower-deck seamen of Irish Catholic origins were
unusually troublesome or not.
Furthermore, although commissioned officers were by definition
Protestant - the oath abjuring the Pope had to be sworn - is it really
possible, looking at the names and families listed below, that there were no closet Catholics whatever in the upper
ranks of the Royal Navy[9]? Clearly, there is the opportunity to put much
flesh on the bare bones to be found herein.
The Sources Used
We are fortunate that the cementing
of the reputation of the Royal Navy in the period under review gave rise to a
large number of biographical listings of the officer class, many based on
information obtained directly from the men themselves or from their service
colleagues and near relatives. And even
in those biographical dictionaries that have no specifically naval focus, the
same circumstance gives rise to the inclusion of very many sailors of the
period. Here I propose briefly to
summarise the sources used in this article, for the purpose of showing the
boundaries they place on the research: full details of the works are of course
given in the References section following the list
and any conventions and abbreviations are explained in the section next
following.
I should stress that, in the listing
itself, apart from ranks and dates, the only biographical information given by
me pertains to the officer’s Irishness or Irish connections; sources for full
career details are then given for those who require that further information.
Moreover, I offer no judgement here on the reliability of the sources
themselves, which are often somewhat contradictory, incomplete and (especially
in the case of Charnock, Marshall, Ralfe and O’Byrne) over-complimentary to
their subjects. Because of the derivative
or inconsequential nature of some of the sources (e.g., some of the minor
biographical entries in BBA or the Burke volumes), I have not felt it useful to
list every source for every officer.
Readers with a particular interest in a particular individual would
therefore be well-advised to cast their net a little more widely than this list
alone.
Naval Biographical Sources
It may surprise readers to know that
the Royal Navy of the period kept little detailed information on its officer
class beyond records of initial examinations passed, ranks held over time and,
sometimes, ships served in[10]. Further biographical information has to be
obtained from secondary sources. The
largest single source used for this article is the 1849 edition of William
O’Byrne’s Naval Biographical Dictionary. This gives quite extensive details of every
sea-officer of the rank of Lieutenant or above who was alive at approximately
his date of publication. Many of the
entries also mention deceased family members who had served in the RN. John Marshall’s somewhat similar, though
earlier, Royal Naval Biography of
1829-35 deals with living officers of the rank of Commander and above, again
with many details of deceased relatives[11]. John Charnock’s Biographia Navalis deals with only Captains and Admirals, although
from the earliest time up to his publication date of 1794. James Ralfe’s Naval Biography of 1828 is, again, memoirs of only the most senior
and notable officers. Norie’s Gazetteer
and Biographer of 1827 is a valuable source for details of a limited number
of senior commanders, as is the 40-volume Naval
Chronicle of 1799-1818. This latter
volume has - along with much else besides - memoirs of notable commanders as
well as death, birth and marriage notices for many hundreds of others: the
General Biographical Sources
In each and every case, these works
naturally focus only on the noteworthy of all eras. Chief amongst these is of course the late 19th
century Dictionary of National Biography,
with its main-series naval entries entirely the work of Sir John Knox
Laughten. The Irish biographical
dictionaries of Ryan (1819-21), Webb (1878), Crone (1928) and Boylan (1988) are
of course useful, but are all relatively short works in which naval acumen does
not feature greatly[13]. A small number of similar works from
Britain’s former colonies - chiefly Australia, Canada and New Zealand - have
identified Irish origins for sailors connected with their countries, elsewhere
blandly stated to have been ‘British’.
Frederick Boase’s Modern English
Biography, dating from the late 19th and early 20th
centuries, both captures the final years of many officers who lived beyond
O’Byrne and often gives some detail of long-dead naval relatives; however, the
information in Boase itself is rather compact and relatively rarely mentions an
entry’s origins in any great detail.
Finally, extensive use has been made of the enormous British Biographical Archive microfiche
series, a work that has the double advantage of including many thousands -
indeed hundreds of thousands - of worthy but less-famous figures and of
providing convenient access to some of the rarer works of specialised biography
already mentioned. Again, full details
are given in the References section below.
Genealogical Sources
Burke’s various and compendious
genealogical surveys of the peerage[14]
and landed gentry of Ireland provide much information on officers of the RN who
would otherwise escape notice by either failing to win fame or notoriety, or by
dying at an ‘awkward’ date with respect to the naval biographies. However, the sheer volume of information in
the many editions, combined with vagueness as to identity and dates of minor
family members or those who died young make these monumental works labourious
to use unless one already has a ‘target’ person in mind, and the information
here derived from them must necessarily be incomplete[15]. In some cases where no other date information
is available, I have had to infer
from the context that any service would have fallen in my date-range; these
inferences are noted in the listing.
Other Sources
a) The Irish Sword itself has of course provided information and pointers
to information over a number of years; details of articles used are given
below. In one particular case, a piece
on officers of the Sea Fencible Service in Ireland identified 20 or so men, the
majority of whom turned out on further research to be Irishmen of one form or
another. Consequently, I have included
in the listing those few remaining members of the Fencibles whose origins I
could not track down, suspecting strongly that they were either Irish or
married into Irish families.
b)
A source, and a valuable one, of further personal information would be
the many volumes of memoirs and journals written by the naval or
naval-connected men and women of the time, volumes which often contain authorial
asides or editorial remarks on the origins of the cast of characters. Similarly, more recent and modern biographies
will often make similar slight digressions or observations. However, readers will perhaps appreciate that
the search strategy for information contained in these works is a very
different one to that which can be used amongst the systematic works. Hence, these books have not been used as a
source for this article, excepting 3 instances alone - James Gardner, Henry
Napier and, perhaps, Thomas Troubridge - which have been drawn to my attention
by colleagues. It is hoped that, in
time, many more names can be added to the list in this way.
c)
Finally in dealing with sources, I must mention and acknowledge the
generous help given to me in the later stages of preparing this article by
Patrick Marioné of Brussels, an information specialist who has in preparation a
searchable database of the 11,000-odd officers who served in the RN from
1789-1816. Patrick has been able to
supply me with a number of dates and ranks, derived from the official Navy
Lists, that were otherwise obscure to me, as well giving me some basic data
that greatly simplified the searches in the Burke volumes. He has also enjoyed better access to the rare
2nd edition of O’Byrne than I.
His work, when finally complete and available (perhaps initially on the
Internet), will be a major new resource for studies of the Georgian Navy.
Abbreviations and Conventions Used
a) Abbreviations
Most of the
sources are simply referred to by their chief author’s name, and full details
will be found in the References section. For reasons of space, all sources have been
given in as compact a form as possible.
In the case of many of them, their alphabetical listing makes further
research straightforward[16]. However, where this is not the case, the
following notes will prove useful.
1) BBA: British Biographical Archive microfiche
and index set.
In the case
of BBA I have also given the name of the source document where this has
something material to add on the question of Irishness;: e.g. (BBA:Ryan).
Occasionally I have merely noted (BBA:many entries) where there is extensive
other biographical information, often merely repeating the text of a principal
source. Care needs to be taken with the
BBA index, which has some slips in its strict alphabetisation, especially as
regards names beginning M’.
2) Boase
The
references are to volume numbers, as the work is in two separate alphabetised
series, 1-3 and the later, supplementary 4-6.
3) BurkeLG:
Burke’s Landed Gentry
References
are to pages in the cited edition.
4) BurkeP:
Burke’s Peerage
References
are to pages in the cited edition.
5) Charnock
References
are to volume numbers. Although officers
are largely arranged in order of seniority, each volume has its own
alphabetical index.
6)
DNB: Stephen’s Dictionary
of National Biography
DNB:Supp is
a reference to one of the Supplementary volumes lying outside the main
alphabetic listing.
7) IS: The Irish Sword
References
are to volume numbers: full details of the individual articles are in the
References section
8) NC: Naval Chronicle
References
are to volume number and page of first mention in an article.
9)
As
Marshall’s own numbering and referencing system is extremely unhandy to use, my
reference is to the binder’s volume number typically found on the spine of
Marshall sets. Each volume does have its
own index of names and corresponding pages.
10) O’Byrne
and O’Byrne2
Most
references are to the 1849 1st edition; occasional reference is made
- as (O’Byrne2) - to the incomplete 2nd edition of some 10 years
later.
11) Ralfe
References
are to volume numbers, each of which has an alphabetical index.
12) RN:
Royal Navy
When no
other date information is available, e.g. (RN 1806) indicates the date the man first entered the
Navy,.
13) TR: Mackenzie’s The
Trafalgar Roll
This work
is arranged ship-by-ship but also has an alphabetic index of names.
b) Conventions Used in the
Alphabetic Listing (these conventions
also appear in the lower left browser frame, where they can be kept visible for
ease of reference)
ADAMS:
Irish by family or birth.
ADAMS: married into Irish family.
+ADAMS: biographical
details to be found only in the sources for the named relative.
*ADAMS: a
cross reference to a headline entry.
Adams or Adams: identity unclear or Irish
connection somewhat tenuous or uncertain.
?: flags an
uncertain rank, date or place.
(Marshall 2, O’Byrne, TR): Irish connection specified in the
regular type ‘O’Byrne’ but unmentioned or unclear in the italicised Marshall and Trafalgar Roll.
[Note: combinations are possible – so, “+Brown” would indicate a man of
uncertain identity, Irish only by marriage, and mentioned only in a relative’s
biography.]
The List of Officers
ACHMUTY,
Lieutenant Robert Ross (d.1844)
Dublin and Co. Longford family.
1822 married Alicia Jane Achmuty of Co. Roscommon. (O’Byrne)
ADAMS, Rear-Admiral John (d.1866)
1846 married Elizabeth Hurst Ellis
of Dublin. (Boase 1, O’Byrne)
ALCOCK,
Commander Richard (1781-1827)
Co. Waterford family. (Marshall 7)
ALEXANDER, Captain Nicholas (d.1852)
1815 (also seen as 1807) married Susannah Legrand of Co. Cork. (Marshall
7, NC 34:440, O’Byrne)
ALEXANDER,
Commander Norton Butler (RN 1808)
Co. Londonderry family. (O’Byrne, O’Byrne2)
ALLEN,
Lieutenant Samuel (1781-1848)
Born Co. Wexford. (O’Byrne) [see also Grosvenor *Winkworth]
ANDERSON,
Commander Alexander (d.1854)
Co. Waterford family, a son of Ellen Carew of Co. Wexford. (BurkeLG: 9)
ANNESLEY,
Commander Hon. Francis Charles
(1775-1832)
Cos. Down and Fermanagh family, a son of the 2nd Earl
Annesley and Anne Lambert of Co. Down.
According to Marshall, possibly father of Francis Charles
*Annesley. (BurkeP: 33; Marshall 7 under the ‘son’)
ANNESLEY,
Commander Francis Charles (1787-1846)
Co. Down family, possibly a son of Hon. Francis Charles *Annesley.
(Marshall 7, O’Byrne) [N.b., the dates
rather suggest Marshall is wrong.]
ANTHONY,
Commander Mark (1784-1867)
Born Co. Waterford, a son of Miss Lambert of Co. Wexford. (O’Byrne, TR)
+Arabin,
Lieutenant Augustus (d.1839)
A brother of Septimus *Arabin. (Boase 1, Marshall 5, O’Byrne)
Arabin,
Rear-Admiral Septimus (d.1855)
Possibly an Irish-resident family, a son of Ann Grant of Ballendallack
[?Ballydallagh, Co. Clare]. (Marshall 5,
O’Byrne)
ARBUTHNOTT, Admiral Sir Alexander Dundas Young
(1789-1871)
1826 married Catherine Maria Eustace of Co. Kildare, the claimant to the
Viscountcy of Baltinglass. (Boase 1, Marshall 5, O’Byrne, TR)
ATKINS, Commander James (1777-1864)
1819 married Belle Sophia Grey of Co. Wexford. (O’Byrne)
AYLMER,
Admiral Rt Hon. Frederick William, Lord
(1777-1858)
English-born son of Henry, Lord Aylmer of Balrath, Co. Meath. (Boase 1, BurkeP: 71, Marshall 4, O’Byrne; Charnock 4 for the father)
AYLMER,
Admiral John (d.1841)
English-born member of family of Barons Aylmer of Co. Meath. (BurkeP: 71, Marshall 1)
AYLMER,
Commander John (1785-1845 or 1849)
A son of John *Aylmer. (BurkeP:
71, O’Byrne)
BAKER,
Lieutenant John Robinett (RN 1814)
1838 married Catherine Oxley of Co. Dublin. (O’Byrne)
BALDWIN,
Admiral Augustus (d.1866)
An Irishman. (Boase 1, BBA: Morgan, Marshall 12, O’Byrne)
BARLOW,
Captain Charles Anstruther (1800-55)
A son of Elizabeth Smith of Co. Westmeath. (Boase
1, O’Byrne)
BARRETT,
Captain John (d.1810)
Born Co. Louth. Father of Robert
John *Barrett. (Crone, DNB, NC 37:177)
BARRETT,
Lieutenant Robert John (b.1799)
A son of John *Barrett. (O’Byrne)
BARRINGTON,
Lieutenant Croker (1794-1844)
Co. Limerick family, a son of Mary Baggott of Limerick. 1840 married Margaret Lewin of Co.
Clare. (BurkeP: 90)
BARRINGTON,
Captain Hon. George (1794-1835)
A son of the 3rd Viscount Barrington of Co. Down. (BurkeP: 90, Marshall 5)
BARRINGTON,
Admiral Hon. Samuel (1729-1800)
A son of John Shute, 1st Viscount Barrington of Co.
Down. (BurkeP: 90, Charnock 6, DNB, NC
4:169, Ralfe 1)
BATEMAN, Admiral Charles Philip Butler (1776-1858)
1809 married Lucy Chetwynd of Co. Cork.
(Boase 1, Marshall 9, O’Byrne)
BATTERSBY,
Lieutenant Edward (1805-1839)
Co. Westmeath family. (BurkeLG:
34)
BATTERSBY,
Commander John Palmer (d.1888)
Co. Sligo family. 1835 married
Maria Jones of Co. Wicklow. (BurkeLG:
33, O’Byrne)
BATTERSBY,
Lieutenant Leslie Patrick (dates unknown)
A brother of John Palmer *Battersby.
(BurkeLG: 34)
BATTERSBY,
Captain Robert Henry (d.1816)
Co. Westmeath family, the uncle of John Palmer *Battersby. 1810 married Miss Chapman of Co.
Westmeath. (BurkeLG: 34, NC 36:518;
O’Byrne for the nephew)
BAYLY,
Captain James (1785-1857)
Born Co. Tipperary. (Marshall 8, O’Byrne, TR)
BAYLY,
Lieutenant Peter (d.1853)
A brother of James *Bayly.
(O’Byrne)
BEAUFORT,
Rear-Admiral Sir Francis (1774-1857)
Cos. Louth and Meath family. (Boase
1, Boylan, Crone, DNB, Marshall 10, O’Byrne, Webb)
BEAUMAN,
Rear-Admiral Francis (1778-1846)
Co. Wexford family, a son of Anne Rice of Co. Wexford. (Marshall
9, O’Byrne)
BELLINGHAM,
?Midshipman Thomas (born before 1779)
Co. Louth family, a son of Alice Montgomery of Co. Down. (BurkeP: 115)
BERESFORD,
Midshipman James Hamilton (1782-1806)
A grandson of the Earl of Tyrone.
(BurkeP: 1348)
BERESFORD,
Admiral Sir John Poo (1766-1844)
An Irish-born, natural son of George Lord le Poer, later Marquis of
Waterford. (Crone, DNB, Marshall 2,
Ralfe 4) [see also Henry *Eden]
BINDON, Commander John Read (d.1863)
1806 married Sarah Elize, the daughter of Charles *Vereker, Viscount
Gort, of Co. Limerick. (O’Byrne)
BLACKER,
Captain Stewart (d.1826)
Born Armagh and related to the Earls of Courtown. (BurkeLG: 45, Marshall 12, TR) [see also
James Stopford *Ram, William Alexander *Ram, Sir Montague *Stopford, the Hon.
Philip *Stopford and the Hon. Sir Robert *Stopford]
BLACKWOOD,
Vice-Admiral Hon. Sir Henry (1770-1832)
Co. Down family, a son of Dorcas Stevenson, later Baroness Dufferin and
Clanboye. Father of Henry Martin
*Blackwood, uncle of Hon. Price *Blackwood.
(BurkeP: 127, Crone, DNB, Marshall 2, NC 14:467, 17:176, TR)
BLACKWOOD, Captain
Sir Henry Martin (1801-1851)
Son of Sir Henry *Blackwood.
(Boase 1, BurkeP: 127, Marshall 5, O’Byrne)
BLACKWOOD,
Captain Hon. Price, 3rd Lord Dufferin (1794 or 1796-1841)
Born Dublin, a nephew of Vice-Admiral Sir Henry *Blackwood. 1825 married Helen Selina Sheridan, a
granddaughter of the writer and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan. (Marshall
5; DNB under his wife)
BLAKE,
Admiral Patrick John (1797-1884)
Son of Louisa Elizabeth, sister of Admiral Sir William *Gage. (Boase
1, Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
BLAKISTON,
Commander Thomas (1790-1855)
Co. Athlone family, a son of Anne Rochford of Co. Carlow. (Marshall 8, O’Byrne; Boase 1 for the
parents)
BLAND,
Midshipman Charles Humphrey (?1795-1811)
A cousin of Loftus Otway *Bland.
(BurkeLG: 54)
BLAND,
Captain Loftus Otway (d.1810)
Queen’s Co. family, a son of Charlotte Smith of Co. Tipperary. (BurkeLG: 54, NC 24: 87, 175)
Blaquiere,
?Lieutenant Peter Boyle de (1784-1860)
Co. Londonderry family, a son of Eleanor Dobson of Co. Cork. 1804 married (1) Eliza O’Brien of Co.
Limerick; 1818 married (2) Eliza Roper of Co. Dublin. N.B. Burke implies that his RN service was
rather brief, and Syrett and DiNardo identify only a ‘Lewis Blaquierre’,
removed from the RN list in 1811.
(BurkeP: 370)
BLENNERHASSET,
?Midshipman Rowland (b.1795)
Co. Kerry family. (BurkeP: 132)
BLOIS, Commander Sir John Ralfe (1795-1853)
1827 married Eliza Knox Barrett of Co. Donegal. (Marshall 8, O’Byrne; Boase 4 under his son Sir John Ralfe Blois)
BLOOD, Lieutenant
Frederick (RN 1812)
Co. Clare family. (BurkeLG: 57, O’Byrne)
BLYTH, Lieutenant Charles (1795-1855)
1829 married Jane M’Dowell of Co. Antrim. (O’Byrne)
BOILEAU,
Lieutenant Lestock Francis (1785-1849)
Born Dublin. (O’Byrne)
BOLTON, Commander Henry (1796-1852)
1839 married Ann Kearny of Waterford.
(Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
BOROUGH, Commander William (1781-1853)
Married a cousin of the Irish peer William Vesey Fitzgerald, Lord
Fitzgerald and Vesci. (O’Byrne; DNB for
the cousin)
BORROWES,
Midshipman Arthur (d.1810)
Co. Kildare family, a son of Henrietta de Robillard, herself a daughter
of Arthur Champagné, Dean of Clonmacnoise.
(BurkeP: 147) [see also Sir
Charles *Paget]
BOURCHIER,
Captain Sir Thomas (1791-1849)
Born Dublin of Co. Clare family.
N.B. Burke incorrectly gives him as Admiral. (BurkeLG: 63, Marshall 6, O’Byrne)
BOURNE,
Midshipman (1787?-1805)
A native of Ireland. (NC 32:14)
BOURNE,
Commander Richard (d.1851)
Co. Westmeath family. 1816
married Louisa Helena Blake of Co. Galway.
(BurkeP: 1338, O’Byrne)
BOWKER,
Rear-Admiral John (1770-1847)
Of Queen’s County, a son of Miss Cosby of Vicarstown, Queen’s Co. (Marshall 10, O’Byrne) [see also Phillips *Cosby]
Bowles,
Admiral of the Fleet Sir William (1780-1869)
O’Byrne notes that Admiral Bowles was a nephew of the Irish politician
Sir Boyle Roche. However, this was not a blood-relationship: Bowles’ mother,
Dinah Frankland, was a Yorkshire lady who had become Sir Boyle’s sister-in-law. (Boase
1, O’Byrne, Marshall 9)
BOYLE,
Vice-Admiral Hon. Sir Courtenay
(1769/70-1844)
A son of the 7th Earl of Cork and Orrery. (BurkeP: 315, Marshall 3, NC 24:437, 30:1)
BOYLE,
Rear-Admiral Courtenay Edmund William (1800-59)
Son of Hon. Courtenay *Boyle.
(BurkeP: 315, Boase 1, Marshall
6, O’Byrne)
BRADSHAW,
Captain Robert Augustus (b.1800)
Born Co. Cork. (O’Byrne)
BREEDON, Lieutenant William (b.1799)
1832 married Waller Kearny of Co. Kilkenny. (O’Byrne)
BREMER, Rear-Admiral Sir James John Gordon (1786-1850)
1811 married Mrs Harriet Glasse, née Wheeler, of Waterford. (DNB, Marshall 11, O’Byrne)
BRENAN,
Commander Alexander (1790-1862)
Born Dublin. (O’Byrne, TR)
BRICE-KINGSMILL, see KINGSMILL
Brodie,
Captain Thomas Charles (d.1811)
Irish Sea Fencible service, 1804.
(IS 14)
BROWNE,
Lieutenant Dodwell (d.1820 or 1821)
Co. Mayo family, a son of Elizabeth Cuff of Co. Mayo, herself a daughter of Lord Tyrawley. 1797 married Maria O’Donol of Newport. (BurkeLG: 77)
BROWNRIGGE,
Lieutenant Marcus Freeman (RN 1813)
Co. Wicklow family, a son of Anne Shearman of Co. Kilkenny. (BurkeP: 180, O’Byrne)
BROWNRIGGE,
Commander William Crosbie (d.1805)
A cousin of Marcus Freeman *Brownrigge.
(BurkeP: 179; O’Byrne under the cousin)
BRUCE,
Admiral Sir Henry William (1792-1863)
Born in Dublin to an English-born vicar from a Co. Londonderry family,
and his wife, Letitia Barnard, a descendant of recent Bishops of Derry and
Limerick. (Boase 1, BurkeP: 181, Marshall 11, O’Byrne, TR)
BUNBURY,
Lieutenant George Benjamin Isaac (RN 1812; later used ISAAC as surname)
Co. Down family. (O’Byrne)
BURDETT,
Captain George (d.1832)
Co. Kildare and Queen’s Co. family.
Irish Sea Fencible service, 1804.
1806 married (2) Catherine
Dorothea Brown of Co. Dublin. (BurkeLG:
84, IS 14, Marshall 4, NC 15:440)
BURGH,
Lieutenant Arthur (1792-1835)
Co. Kildare family, a son of Florinda Gardiner, a sister of Viscount
Mountjoy. (BurkeLG: 172)
BURGH,
Midshipman Luke (1791-1809)
Co. Kildare family, a brother of Arthur *Burgh. (BurkeLG: 172)
+BURKE,
Commander Henry (d.1804/5; his ship is
presumed to have foundered after leaving England
at the very end of 1804)
A son of the Limerick-born Walter Burke, the Purser of Lord Nelson’s HMS
Victory., who was a relative of the
politician Edmund Burke. (BBA:Ryan and
TR for the father) [see also Sir Edmund *Nagle].
BURKE,
Lieutenant Walter (d.1801)
A brother of Henry *Burke. (NC
6:172; BBA:Ryan, TR for their father)
+BURKE,
rank and name unknown (d.1804/5; his ship
is presumed to have foundered after leaving England at the very end of 1804)
A brother of Henry *Burke.
(BBA:Ryan for their father; this son is not mentioned in TR)
Burn, David (1805-75)
A minor author and playwright said to have been an RN officer in his
early life. 1832 married a Miss Fenton
in Ireland. (BBA:several entries, Scholefield)
BURROWES,
Captain Alexander Saunderson (1767?-1806)
Co. Cavan family. (BBA: Ryan)
BURT,
Lieutenant George (d.1815)
Born Dublin. (TR)
BURTCHAELL,
Midshipman George (1798-1857)
Co. Kilkenny family. 1831 married
Ann Wall of Co. Carlow. (BurkeLG: 88)
BURTON,
Admiral James Ryder (1795-1876; later known as: RYDER, James)
Son of a Bishop of Killala. 1822
married the widow Anna Maria Roche, née Plunkett, a daughter of Lord Dunsany of
Co. Meath. (BurkeP: 447, Boase 1, Marshall 5, O’Byrne)
Butcher, Vice-Admiral Samuel (1770-1849)
Irish Sea Fencible service, 1804.
1806 married Elizabeth Herbert of Co Kerry. (IS 14, Marshall 4; Boase 1 under his
Irish-born son, Rev. Samuel Butcher)
BUTLER,
Lieutenant Charles George (b.1793)
Co. Carlow family, a son of Sarah Maria Newenham of Co. Cork. (BurkeP: 204)
BUTLER,
Commander Humphrey (RN 1812)
Co. Fermanagh family. (BurkeP:
767)
CADOGAN,
Admiral Rt Hon. George, 3rd Earl
of Cadogan (1783-1864)
An English-born member of the Irish Sloan family. 1810 married Louisa Honoria Blake, sister of
Lord Wallscourt of Ardfry, Co. Galway.
(Boase 1, Marshall 9, O’Byrne; DNB for earlier Earls)
CALDWELL,
Admiral Sir Benjamin (d.1820)
English-born son of Co. Louth parents, themselves of Scots / English
ancestry. (DNB, Charnock 6, NC 11:1,
Ralfe 1)
CALLANAN, Lieutenant John James (1784-1809;
Syrett & DiNardo give his forename as George)
Born Co. Cork. (TR)
Campbell,
Rear-Admiral Donald (d.1819)
Irish Sea Fencible service, 1804.
(IS 14)
CANNING,
Captain William Pitt (d.1828)
Co. Londonderry family, a son of the London-born statesman George
Canning. (BurkeP: 559; DNB for the
father)
CARDEN,
Admiral John Surman (1771-1855)
English-born member of Irish Templemore family. (Boase 1, Marshall 4, O’Byrne)
CAREW,
Captain Sir Thomas (d.1840)
A nephew of Sir John Newport of Co. Waterford and his wife Ellen Carew
also of Co. Waterford. (Marshall 7, O’Byrne; DNB for the uncle)
CARLETON,
Captain William (d.1874)
American-born son of General Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester, a native of
Co. Tyrone. (Marshall 8, O’Byrne, TR; DNB for General Carleton).
CARPENTER,
Captain Hon. Charles (1757-1803)
A son of the 1st Earl of Tyrconnnel; his own son became 3rd
Earl. (BBA:Brydges, NC 10:283).
CARROLL, Lieutenant Andrew de la Cour (RN 1812)
1841 married Mary Wright of Co. Wicklow.
(O’Byrne)
CARROLL, Rear-Admiral Sir William Fairbrother (1784-1862)
Born Co. Wicklow. (Boase 1,
Marshall 12, O’Byrne)
CARTER, Captain Benjamin (1772?-1833)
1806 married Miss Graydon of Co. Kildare. (Marshall
4, NC 15:87)
CARTER,
Admiral John (1785-1863)
Cos. Kildare and Meath family, a son of Catherine Butler, an
Irishwoman. (BurkeLG: 101, Boase 1, Marshall 12, O’Byrne, TR)
CARY,
Commander Henry (d.1847)
Born Co. Offaly. (O’Byrne, TR)
CARYSFORT,
see PROBY
CASEY, Lieutenant David O’Brien (d.1848)
1812 married Ann O’Brien of Co. Cork.
(NC 27:438, O’Byrne)
CAULFEILD
or CAULFIELD, Commander Edwin Toby (1793-1881)
From the Queen’s Co. branch of a large Irish family, a son of Anne Cope
of Brewerne, Co. ?Kerry. Married (1)
Frances Sally Irwin of Co. Fermanagh.
(BurkeP: 255, O’Byrne)
CAULFEILD
or CAULFIELD, Commander James (RN 1809)
From the Co. Athlone branch of large Irish family, a son of Lucy
Sanderson of Co. Cavan and cousin of Edwin Toby *Caulfeild. Married Augusta, a sister of George Alfred
*Crofton. (Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
+CAULFEILD
or CAULFIELD, Commander Robert (d.1820)
An uncle of James *Caulfeild.
(BurkeP: 255, O’Byrne)
+CAULFEILD
or CAULFIELD, Captain Thomas Gordon (d.1821)
An uncle of James *Caulfeild and brother of Robert. (BurkeP: 255, O’Byrne)
CAVENDISH,
Captain Hon. George John (RN 1810)
A son of the Irish peer Lord Waterpark and Juliana Cooper of Co.
Kildare. (Marshall 6, O’Byrne)
CLARKE, Commander William Nehemiah (b.1783/4)
1818 married Lydia Delandre of Co. Waterford. (Marshall
8, O’Byrne)
Clayton,
Captain Thomas Wittewrong (d.1806)
Irish Sea Fencible service, 1804.
(IS 14)
COBBE,
Commander William Power (1790-1831)
Co. Dublin family, a son of Anne Power Trench (a sister of the Earl of
Clancarty) of Co. Galway. (BurkeLG: 118,
Marshall 7) [see also William le Poer *Trench]
COCHRANE, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas John
(1789-1872)
1853 married Rosetta Wheeler-Cuffe of Co. Kilkenny. (BurkeP: 344, DNB, Marshall 9, O’Byrne)
Coffin,
Rear-Admiral Francis Holmes (d.1842)
Irish Sea Fencible service, 1804.
(IS 14, Marshall 4)
COGHILL,
Vice-Admiral Sir Josiah or
Joseph (1773-1850; formerly known as
CRAMER, John)
Member of the Cramer family of Co. Kilkenny, a son of Mary Hort, herself
a daughter of an Archbishop of Tuam.
1819 married (2) Anna Maria Bushe, a daughter of the Lord Chief Justice
of Ireland. (BurkeP: 296, Marshall 9,
O’Byrne)
COLBY, Captain Thomas (1782-1864)
1826 married Mary Palmer, an English-resident niece of the Marchioness
of Thomond. (Marshall 7, O’Byrne)
COLLEY, see
POMEROY
COLLINS,
Commander Francis (b.1795)
Born Co. Dublin. 1834 married
Hannah Baylee of Co. Antrim. (O’Byrne)
+Colpoys,
Admiral Sir John (1742?-1821)
A relative of the Irish mother of
John Fitzgerald *Studdert. (Ralfe 2; DNB, O’Byrne for Studdert)
COLTHURST,
Commander Nicholas (d.1854)
Born Co. Cork. (O’Byrne, TR)
COMPTON,
Captain Henry (1774-1847)
Born Co. Limerick. (IS 4,
Marshall 6, O’Byrne)
COMPTON,
Commander William (d.1804)
Born Co. Limerick, the brother of Henry *Compton. (IS 4, Marshall 6)
CONN,
Commander Henry (d.1860)
A relative of John *Conn.
(O’Byrne)
CONN, Captain John (1764-1810)
Born Waterford (N.b., Conn was a
cousin by marriage of Vice-Admiral Viscount Nelson). (NC
23:520, TR)
CONNER or
CONNOR, Captain Richard (d.1862)
Co. Cork family. 1831 married
Elizabeth Perrott of Co. Cork. (Marshall
8, O’Byrne) [see also Sir Frederick
Lewis *Maitland]
COOTE,
Captain William (d. 1857)
Dublin family. (Marshall 6, O’Byrne, TR)
COPPINGER,
Commander Thomas Stephen (d.1878)
Co. Cork family. (BurkeLG: 135,
O’Byrne)
Corbet, Captain
Robert (d.1810)
Said in O’Byrne to be a relative of George *Daniell, though DNB merely
states him to be of an old Shropshire English family. (DNB)
CORNWALL,
Rear-Admiral John (1795-1870)
A grandson of Admiral Lord Alan *Gardner. (Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
CORRY, Rear-Admiral Armar Lowry (d.1855)
1842 married Elizabeth Rosetta Massey-Dawson of Co. Tipperary. (BurkeP: 879, Marshall 12, O’Byrne)
COSBY,
Admiral Phillips (1727-1808)
From a Queen’s Co. family, though possibly born in Nova Scotia. (BBA: Ryan, Charnock 6, Crone, DNB, NC 14:353 & 19:88, Webb)
Cotter,
Lieutenant Edmond Ludlow Rogerson (dates unknown)
Co. Cork family. I have been
unable to find further details of this officer.
(BurkeP: 319)
COTTON, Admiral Sir Charles (1753-1812)
1798 married Philadelphia Rowley, a sister of Admiral Sir Charles
*Rowley. (DNB, O’Byrne footnote under
Lieutenant Alexander Rowley)
Countess,
Rear-Admiral George (d.1811)
Irish Sea Fencible service,
1804. (IS 14)
COURCY,
Admiral Hon. Michael de (d.1824)
Son of the Irish peer John, Lord Kingsale. 1796 married Anne Blennerhasset of Co.
Kerry. (BurkeP: 750, Marshall 1) [see also Sir Charles *Dashwood, John *Meade
and Sir John Gordon *Sinclair]
COURCY,
Commander Hon. Michael de (d.1813)
A son of Susan Blennerhasset of Co. Kerry and a nephew of Admiral Hon.
Michael de *Courcy. Both his father and
his own son held the family title of Lord Kingsale. (IS 5, NC 5:280,
30:176) [see also Sir Charles *Dashwood]
COURCY,
Captain Nevinson de (1788-1845)
A son of Admiral Hon. Michael de *Courcy. 1810 married Mary Blennerhasset of Co.
Kerry. (BurkeLG: 55, BurkeP: 750,
Marshall 12; Boase 1 under his son Captain Michael de Courcy)
CRAWFORD,
Admiral Abraham (1788-1869)
Co. Waterford family. 1831
married Sophia Mockler of Co. Cork.
(Boase 1, Marshall 6, O’Byrne)
+CRAWFORD,
Lieutenant Richard (d.1815)
A brother of Admiral Abraham *Crawford.
(O’Byrne)
CREAGH,
Commander James (b.1798)
Co. Clare family. 1835 married
Grace Emily O’Moore of Co. Kerry. (Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
CRISP or CRISPE, Lieutenant George (1770-1831)
Born Cork. (TR)
CROASDAILE,
Commander Thomas Pearson (d.1836 or 1838)
Queen’s Co. family, a son of Elizabeth Sandes of Queen’s Co. (BurkeLG: 147)
CROFTON,
Captain Edward Lowther (1783-?1818)
Co. Roscommon family, a cousin of George Alfred *Crofton. Syrett & DiNardo give a London Times
notice as the source of the 1818 death date, but the NC death notice for the
same year seems to be for the brother, below. (BurkeP: 339, NC 40:243) [see also William Burdett
*Dobson]
CROFTON,
Lieutenant Frederick J. Lowther (1788?-1818)
A brother of Edward Lowther *Crofton.
(BurkeP: 339, NC 40:243) [N.b., as there is no officer of this name in
the Navy List, it is possible that he was in fact a Royal Marine.]
CROFTON,
Vice-Admiral Hon. George Alfred
(1785-1858)
Co. Roscommon family, a son of Lady Anne Croker of Co. Kildare and brother-in-law of Commander James
*Caulfeild. (BurkeP: 340, Boase 1, Marshall 12, O’Byrne)
CROFTON, Commander Morgan (d.1871)
1818 married Miss O’Hara of Co. Kildare.
(O’Byrne)
CROFTON,
Lieutenant Sir Morgan George (1788-1867)
Co. Antrim family. (TR; Boase 4
under his son Denis Crofton)
+CROKER, Lieutenant Albert (d. 1826)
Co. Limerick family, a brother of
Charles *Croker. (O’Byrne,
Marshall 8)
CROKER,
Commander Charles (d.1877 or 1878)
Co. Limerick family, a son of Margaret Anne Hare, a sister of the Earl
of Listowel. 1830 married Miss Crowe of
Co. Cork. (BurkeLG: 149, O’Byrne,
Marshall 8)
CROKER,
Captain Richard (d.1836)
Queen’s Co. family. Married
Catherine Jane Bland of Queen’s Co.
(BurkeLG: 54, Marshall 7)
CROKER,
Commander Walter (1784-1840)
Born Co. Cork. (Marshall 6, O’Byrne)
CROOKE,
Commander William Boyle (d.1875)
Co. Cork family. (O’Byrne)
CROZIER,
Captain Francis Rawdon Moira (1796-1848)
Born Co. Cork. (Boylan, O’Byrne,
Webb)
CURRAN,
Commander John Bartholomew Hoar (d.1832)
Son of John Philpot Curran, the Master of the Rolls in Ireland. (Marshall 7; DNB for the father)
DALE,
Lieutenant Leonard (d.1811)
Irish Sea Fencible service, 1804.
(IS 14)
DALY,
Rear-Admiral Cuthbert Featherstone
(d.1851)
Co. Westmeath family. (Boase
1, Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
DANIELL,
Captain George (1797-1856)
Co. Westmeath family. 1842
married Alice Katherine Blackburne of Co. Meath. (BurkeLG: 44, 161, Marshall 8, O’Byrne) [see
also Robert *Corbet]
DARBY,
Admiral Sir Henry d’Esterre (d.1823)
An Irish native. (IS 4, Marshall
1)
DARKE, Lieutenant Richard (d.1845)
1830 married Emily Greco of Dublin.
(O’Byrne)
DARLEY,
Captain Arthur (d.1852)
Co. Dublin family. Married Angel
Thornton Todd of Co. Donegal. (BurkeLG:
690, Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
DASHWOOD, Vice-Admiral Sir Charles (1765-1847)
1799 married Hon. Elizabeth de Courcy, the sister of Captain Michael de
*Courcy. (BurkeP: 750, Marshall 3, NC
2:547, O’Byrne)
DASHWOOD,
Lieutenant Charles Robert (d.1878)
A son of Sir Charles Dashwood.
(O’Byrne)
DASHWOOD,
Lieutenant John de Courcy (RN 1814)
A son of Sir Charles Dashwood.
(O’Byrne)
DAVIES, Commander
Richard Longfield (1775-1846)
Born Co. Cork. (O’Byrne)
DAWSON,
Lieutenant Alexander (1800-1841)
A son of John *Dawson. (BurkeLG:
13)
DAWSON,
Captain Hon. Henry (1786-1841; sometimes seen as DAMER-DAWSON post 1829)
A son of the Earl of Portarlington.
1813 married Eliza Luttrell, a daughter of Edmund Joshua *Moriarty and
Lady Lucy Luttrell, herself a daughter of the Earl of Carhampton. (BurkeP: 1059, Marshall 10) [see also Hon.
John Luttrell *Olmius]
DAWSON,
Rear-Admiral John (1760-1836)
Co. Cavan or Co. Wicklow family, a son of Sarah Downing of Co.
Londonderry. Married Medicis Downing of
Co. Londonderry. Irish Sea Fencible service, 1804. (BurkeLG: 13, 505, IS 14, Marshall 3)
DAWSON,
Captain Lucius [or Richard] Henry (d.1795)
Co. Monaghan family, a son of Anne, an O’Brien of Dromoland, Co.
Clare. (BurkeP: 366)
DE
COURCY, see COURCY
DICKINSON,
Commander Lundy (RN 1811)
King’s Co. resident. 1833 married
Susanna Enraght Moony of King’s County.
(BurkeLG: 489, O’Byrne)
DICKSON,
Lieutenant William (1791-1854)
Co. Leitrim family. 1819 married
Hester Eccles of Co. Tyrone. (O’Byrne)
DIGBY,
Captain Charles George (1780-1829)
A brother of Sir Henry *Digby.
(BurkeP: 405, Marshall 4)
DIGBY,
Lieutenant Edward (b.1799)
Co. Kildare / Co. Meath family, related to the Digbys of King’s Co; a son of Elizabeth Borr of Co. Meath. Married Sarah Crawford of Co. Down. (O’Byrne)
DIGBY,
Admiral Sir Henry (1770-1842)
Of King’s Co., a grandson of he 1st Earl Digby and nephew of
Robert *Digby. (BurkeP: 404, Marshall 2, TR)
DIGBY,
Vice-Admiral Joseph (1786-1860)
A brother of Sir Henry *Digby.
(BurkeP: 405, Marshall 12, O’Byrne)
DIGBY,
Admiral Hon. Robert (1732-1814)
King’s Co., from the family of the Irish Earls and Barons Digby. (BurkeP: 404, Charnock 6, DNB, NC 11:89,
30:262, Ralfe 1)
DIGBY,
Captain Stephen Thomas (d.1820)
A cousin of Sir Henry Digby.
(BurkeP: 405)
DILKES,
Captain Charles (d.1846)
1818 married Louisa Newenham of Co. Cork. (Marshall 9, O’Byrne)
DILLON,
Vice-Admiral Sir William Henry (1779-1857)
English-born to Irish parents. (Boase
1, DNB, Marshall 9, O’Byrne)
DOBBS, Captain Alexander (1784?-1828)
Born Dublin. (Marshall 11)
DOBBS,
Commander Conway Richard (1796/8-1886)
Co. Antrim family. (Boase 1, O’Byrne)
Dobson,
Admiral Man (1755-1847)
Irish Sea Fencible service,
1804. (IS 14, Marshall 3, O’Byrne)
DOBSON, Rear-Admiral William Burdett (d.1872)
A son of Man *Dobson. Married
Maria Frances, a daughter of Edward Lowther *Crofton of Co. Roscommon. (Boase 1, Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
+Dobson,
Lieutenant Hyde Parker (d.1836)
A deceased son of Man *Dobson. (O’Byrne)
DONNELLAN,
Lieutenant John MacNamara (d.1816)
A nephew of James
*MacNamara. (NC 36:87)
DONOVAN,
Lieutenant Henry (1795-1824)
Co. Wexford family, a son of Anne Richards of Co. Wexford. (BurkeLG: 189)
DONOVAN,
Lieutenant William (1763-1814)
Co. Wexford family, a cousin of Henry *Donovan. (BurkeLG: 189)
DOUGLAS, Vice-Admiral Peter John (1787-1858)
Married Lydia, a daughter of Sylverius *Moriarty. (Boase
1, Marshall 10, O’Byrne)
DOWNIE,
Captain George (d.1814)
Born Co. Wexford. (Crone, NC 32, 33, Webb)
DOYLE,
Captain Sir Bentinck Cavendish (d.1843)
Co. Kilkenny family. (Marshall 10; DNB under his brother, Sir Charles
William Doyle).
DRURY,
Captain Henry (d.1847)
Co. Cork family, a nephew of William O’Bryen *Drury. (Marshall
7, O’Byrne)
DRURY,
Vice-Admiral William O’Bryen (d.1811)
Co. Cork family. Married a
daughter of the famous English-born Celtic antiquary, General Vallancey. N.B. BBA:Ryan states that Drury had sons who
were RN officers, but none of the biographies of possible Drury-surnamed
candidates - Captain Edward O’Brien, Lieutenant John Sheppy, Captain Joseph,
and Commander William Hamilton - identifies the relationship. (BBA:Ryan, NC 26:179, Norie, O’Byrne under
his nephew Captain Henry *Drury)
DUNCAN, Commander Adam Camperdown (d.1845)
Married Fanny Homan of Co. Sligo.
(O’Byrne)
EDEN, Admiral
Henry (1797-1888)
1849 married a granddaughter of the Earl of Tyrone. (Boase
1, BurkeP: 1348, DNB) [see also Sir John Poo *Beresford]
EGMONT, see
PERCEVAL
EGREMONT,
see WYNDHAM
Ekins,
Admiral Sir Charles (1768-1855)
Sometimes referred to as son of the Bishop of Dromore, Co. Down.
However, both father and son were English, with the father more usually
referred to as the Dean of Carlisle, the post in which he made his reputation.
(Boase 1, DNB, Marshall 2, O’Byrne,
Ralfe 4)
ELLICE, Captain Alexander (d.1853)
1826 married Lucy Frances Locke, a granddaughter of the Duchess of
Leinster. (Marshall 8, O’Byrne) [see also Charles *Fitzgerald, Robert Lewis
*Fitzgerald, Thomas *Foley, Lord *Lecale, George Francis *Lyon and Frederick
Fitzgerald de *Roos]
ELLIOT, Midshipman
Richard (b. 1793)
Born Dublin. (TR)
ELLIOTT, Lieutenant Edward George (RN 1808)
1837 married Eliza Walton of Kinsale, Co. Cork. (O’Byrne)
ELLIS,
Captain Henry (1784-1857)
Cos. Limerick and Cavan family, a son of Mary Hilliard of Co.
Kerry. (BurkeLG: 206, Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
ESMONDE,
Lieutenant James (d.1842)
Co. Wexford family, a son of Helen Callen of Co. Kildare. Married Anna Maria Murphy of Co. Cork. N.B., his brother, John, served as a Captain
in the Chilean Navy, which suggests some early RN experience. (BurkeP: 493)
EVANS,
Vice-Admiral Henry (d.1842)
Co. Cork family, a son of Hannah Roberts of Co. Cork. 1801 married (1) Elizabeth Nash of Co. Cork;
1812 married (2) Marianne Holmes of Co. Tipperary. Irish Sea Fencible service, 1804. (BurkeLG: 209, IS 14, Marshall 3)
EVANS, Captain Robert (d.1828)
Married Isabella Nesbitt of Co. Donegal.
(Marshall 10)
EVANS, Commander Thomas Pearce (1786-1867)
1812 married Clare Elizabeth Pennefather of Co. Tipperary. (BurkeLG: 554, O’Byrne) [see also William *Pennefather and Henry
*Vansittart]
EVANSON, Lieutenant Alleyne (RN 1808)
1821 married Emily Connell of Cork.
(O’Byrne)
FAHIE,
Vice-Admiral Sir William Charles (1763-1833)
A member of the Irish Offahie family born on the Caribbean island of St
Kitts. (DNB, Marshall 2, Ralfe 4)
FAIR,
Captain Robert (d.1844)
Co. Cork family. (Marshall 8)
FALKINER,
Captain Sir Charles Leslie (1790/01-1858)
Co. Cork family. (BurkeP: 502, Boase 5, Marshall 7, O’Byrne)
FEGAN,
Lieutenant Frederick James (d.1821)
Co. Tipperary family. (BurkeP:
79)
FELLOWES,
Captain Sir Thomas (1778-1853)
A son of Miss Butler of Co. Waterford.
(Boase 1, DNB, Marshall 10, O’Byrne)
FERGUSON, Rear-Admiral George (d.1867)
1825 married Elizabeth Jane Rowley of Co. Meath, a sister of Lord
Langford. (BurkeP: 768, Marshall 11,
O’Byrne)
FERRER,
Lieutenant William Augustus (b.1797)
Born Dublin. (O’Byrne)
FFOLLIOTT,
?Midshipman Philip Holman (dates unknown)
Co. Sligo family. (BurkeLG:
222) [see also Charles Frederick *Payne]
FINNY,
?Midshipman Lucius (d.1811)
Co. Dublin family. (BurkeLG: 226)
FINNY,
Midshipman William (1765-1815)
Co. Dublin family, a brother of Lucius *Finny. 1787 married Elizabeth
Warner of Co. Dublin. Mr Finny
transferred to the Royal Marines in 1796.
(BurkeLG: 226)
FITTON,
Lieutenant Michael (1766-1852)
An English-born descendant of Sir Edward Fitton of Connaught, onetime
Chancellor of Ireland. (Boase 1, DNB, O’Byrne; also DNB for Sir Edward)
FITZCLARENCE,
Rear-Admiral Lord Adolphus (1802-1856)
A natural son of HRH Admiral Prince William, Duke of Clarence (later
King *William IV) and Mrs Dorothea Jordan
(née variously as Bland, Francis or Phillips), the Irish belle and actress. (Boase 1, BurkeP:
949, DNB, Marshall 5, O’Byrne) [see also Lord John *Hallyburton]
FITZGERALD,
Commander Charles (1791?-1887)
Co. Clare family, a member of a cadet branch of the House of
Leinster. (Boase 1, O’Byrne, Shaw) [see also
Alexander *Ellice, Robert Lewis *Fitzgerald, Thomas *Foley, Lord *Lecale,
George Francis *Lyon and Frederick Fitzgerald de *Roos]
FITZGERALD, Commander Henry (d.1862)
1835 married Jane Beatty of Co. Cork.
(O’Byrne)
FITZGERALD, Commander Michael (1778-1845)
1803 married Mary M’Grath of Co. Waterford. (O’Byrne)
FITZGERALD,
Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Lewis (1776-1844)
A member of a cadet branch of the House of Leinster. (Marshall 3)
[see also Alexander *Ellice, Charles *Fitzgerald, Thomas *Foley, Lord *Lecale,
George Francis *Lyon and Frederick Fitzgerald de *Roos]
FITZMAURICE,
Commander James (d.1879)
Of the family of the Earls of Kerry.
(O’Byrne)
FLETCHER, Captain William (d.1846)
1826 married Elizabeth Luscombe, an English-born niece of Sir Michael *
(Marshall 6, O’Byrne)
FOLEY, Admiral Sir Thomas (1757-1833)
1802 married Lady Lucy Ann Fitzgerald, a daughter of the Duke of
Leinster. (DNB, IS 4, Marshall 1) [see also Alexander *Ellice, Charles
*Fitzgerald, Robert Lewis *Fitzgerald, Lord
*Lecale, George Francis *Lyon and Frederick Fitzgerald de *Roos]
FOLVIL, Captain Stephen (d.1833)
Irish Sea Fencible service, 1804.
Married Miss Nesbitt of Co. Tyrone.
(IS 14, Marshall 4)
FORBES,
Rear-Admiral Henry (d.1855)
Son of Miss Margaret Sullivan of Co. Cork. (Marshall
12, O’Byrne, TR)
FORBES,
Admiral of the Fleet Hon. John (1714-96)
Co. Longford family, a son of Vice-Admiral George Forbes, Earl of
Granard, and Mary Stewart, a daughter of Lord Mountjoy of Co. Meath. (BBA:Ryan, BurkeP: 592, Charnock 4, Crone,
DNB, IS 6, NC 25:265) [see also William *Wellesley-Pole]
FORTESCUE,
Rear-Admiral Sir Chichester (1750-1820)
Cos. Down and Louth family, a son of Hon. Elizabeth Wellesley, daughter
of 1st Earl of Mornington. (BurkeP:
283) [see also William *Wellesley-Pole]
FOSBERY,
Commander Godfrey (1791-1866)
Co. Limerick family, a son of Philippa Godfrey of Co. Kerry. 1823 married Catherine Lyons Walcott of Co.
Limerick. (O’Byrne)
FOSTER,
Commander Henry Decolas (b.1799)
Cos. Louth and Cavan family. (O’Byrne, O’Byrne2)
+FRANCE,
Commander Nathaniel Thomas (d.1835)
Father of Nathaniel Cranstoun *France and a grandson of the collector of
customs at Waterford. (O’Byrne)
FRANCE,
Lieutenant Nathaniel Cranstoun (d.1849)
A son of Nathaniel Thomas *France.
(O’Byrne)
Frederick,
Admiral Charles (1797-1875)
A member of the Irish Relief Committee in 1847 and senior officer on the
Irish coast, 1865-7. (Boase 1, Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
FREESTUN,
Commander Humphrey May (d.1863)
Co. Waterford family. (O’Byrne, O’Byrne2)
FRENCH,
Captain George (1785-1836/38)
Born Dublin to a Co. Roscommon family.
(BurkeP: 375, Marshall 12)
French,
Hon. W(?ildy)
Irish Sea Fencible service, 1804.
N.B. S&D gives a Lieutenant Wildy French as having died in 1791; the
only other contemporary namesake - Captain George *French - was not
commissioned Lieutenant until 1807. (IS
14)
Gage,
Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Hall (1777-1864)
A London-born grandson of the 1st Viscount Gage of Cos. Kerry and Mayo,
himself originally a Gloucestershire Englishman. (Boase 1, DNB, Marshall 2, O’Byrne). [see also Sir Charles *Ogle]
GAHAN,
Lieutenant George (1794-1851)
English-born of an old Irish family.
1819 married (1) Elizabeth Gahan, a cousin. (O’Byrne)
GALLWEY,
Captain Thomas (d.1858)
Born Co. Kerry. (IS 4, Marshall 7, O’Byrne)
GALWEY,
Rear-Admiral Edward (d.1844)
Born Co. Cork. (IS 4, Marshall 4)
+GALWEY,
Lieutenant Montyford Westropp (d.1806)
Born Co. Cork, a younger brother of Edward *Galwey. N.B. IS gives him as a Commander killed in
action in 1804, whereas Syrett & DiNardo list him as a Lieutenant who died
in 1806. (IS 4)
GARDNER,
Admiral Lord Alan (1742-1809)
English-born of a family long resident in Co. Londonderry. Irish Sea Fencible service, 1804. (BBA, BurkeP: 558, Charnock 6, DNB, IS 14,
NC 8:177, 21:87, 35:87, Ralfe 1) [see also Harry *Humphries and John *Cornwall]
GARDNER,
Vice-Admiral Lord Alan Hyde (1770/72-1815)
A son of Admiral Lord Alan *Gardner.
1796 married (1) Maria Elizabeth Adderley of Co. Cork (divorced
1805). (BBA, BurkeP: 558, NC 8:177,
12:431, 21:357, 35:87)
+GARDNER,
Rear-Admiral Hon. Francis Farington (1772/73-1821)
A son of Admiral Lord Alan *Gardner.
(BurkeP: 558, NC 8:177)
GARDNER,
Commander James Anthony (1770-1846)
Born Co. Waterford. (Lloyd, O’Byrne)
GEORGE,
Captain Sir Rupert (1749-1823)
Born Dublin. (Marshall 3)
Gibbings,
Bartholemew (rank unknown; b.1751)
Co. Cork family, a son of Elizabeth Wright of Co. Limerick. I can find no other trace of his
service. (BurkeLG: 263)
GILLMORE,
Commander Clotworthy (1773-1855)
Co. Sligo family. (O’Byrne)
GODFREY,
Henry (dates unknown and rank uncertain)
Of Cos. Cork and Kerry family, a son of Mary Cope of Co. Kerry. N.B. Syrett & DiNardo identify only H.A.
Godfrey, a Lieutenant of 1794. (BurkeP:
567)
GORE,
Captain Hon. Edward (1797-1879)
A son of the Earl of Arran of Co. Galway. (BurkeP: 54, Marshall 8, O’Byrne; Boase 1 under his son Augustus Frederick Gore)
GORE,
Admiral John (1784-1869)
Queen’s Co. family, a son of Catherine Clutterbuck of Derryluskan. (BurkeLG: 272, Marshall 5, O’Byrne)
GORE,
Vice-Admiral Sir John (1772-1836)
Born Kilkenny, a member of the Arran family. (BBA,
Crone, DNB, Marshall 2, 10, Ralfe 4)
GORE,
Commander Hon. John (d.1812/14)
A brother of Edward *Gore.
(BurkeP: 54)
GORE,
Commander Ralph (1781-1859)
Co. Wexford family, a cousin of Commander Hon. Edward *Gore. 1809 married Frances Hay of Dublin. (O’Byrne)
GORT,
Viscount, see VEREKER, Charles
GOSLIN,
Commander William Henry (RN 1808)
Co. Kilkenny family. (O’Byrne)
GRACE,
Vice-Admiral Percy (d.1859)
Queen’s Co. Family. (Marshall 5,
O’Byrne)
GRANTHAM, Commander Charles (1790-1860)
1811 married Hon. Emily Grace Fortescue of Co. Louth, a sister of
Viscount Clermont. (BurkeP: 283,
O’Byrne)
Graves,
James William (rank unknown; b.1747)
King’s Co. and Limerick family. I
have been unable to locate any other details of this officer. (BurkeLG: 275).
+GRAVES,
Rear-Admiral John (d.1811)
Born Co. Londonderry, a brother of Rear-Admiral Richard and Admiral Sir
Thomas *Graves. (DNB, Marshall 3, NC
8:354)
GRAVES,
Rear-Admiral Richard (d.1836)
Born Co. Londonderry, one of the four RN *Graves brothers. (Marshall 3, NC 8:354)
+GRAVES,
Rear-Admiral Samuel (d.1802)
Born Co. Londonderry, a brother of Richard and Sir Thomas *Graves. (DNB, Marshall 3, NC 8:354, 520)
GRAVES,
Admiral Sir Thomas (1747?-1814)
Born Co. Londonderry, one of the four RN *Graves brothers. The family was essentially English and had
many connections with the Royal Navy, but the sailor-brothers’ father was a
clergyman who had settled in Ireland.
(BBA: Ryan, Crone, DNB, Marshall 3, NC 8:354, O’Byrne, Webb)
GRAY,
Lieutenant Matthew Philpot Berry (1793-1851)
Born Co. Mayo. 1820 married Anne
Lennon of Co. Longford. (O’Byrne)
GREER,
Commander John Miers or Myers (1778-1861)
Co. Tyrone family, a son of Catherine Cuppage of Co. Antrim. (BurkeLG: 280, O’Byrne)
GREVILLE,
Admiral Henry Francis (1794-1887)
A grandson of Miss Macartney of Co. Longford. 1816 married Harriet Dorothea, a daughter of
the Irish General John Despard.
(Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
GRIFFITH,
Lieutenant Henry Allen (RN 1811)
Co. Kildare family, a son of Mary Hussey Burg, an Irish lady. 1830 married Mary Buck of Co. Tyrone. (O’Byrne)
GROVE,
Captain Samuel (d.1817)
Co. Donegal family. (BurkeLG:
281)
GUNNING, Commander Orlando George Sutton (b. 1799)
1830 married Mary Dora, a daughter of Rear-Admiral Sir Michael
*Seymour. (Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
HAGAN,
Captain Sir Robert (1794-1863)
Born Co. Londonderry, a member of the O’Neill family. (Marshall
8, O’Byrne)
HALLYBURTON, Captain the Rt Hon. Lord John Frederick
Gordon (1799-1878)
1836 married Lady Augusta Kennedy Erskine, a widowed sister of Lord
Adolphus *FitzClarence and thus a daughter of the Irish actress Mrs Dorothea
*Jordan and the Duke of Clarence, later King *William IV. (BurkeP: 949, O’Byrne; DNB for Mrs Jordan)
Hamilton,
Admiral Sir Charles (1767-1849)
The brother of Sir Edward *Hamilton.
(DNB, Marshall 1,2, NC 5:1, O’Byrne)
Hamilton,
Admiral Sir Edward (1772-1851)
From the English branch of the Hamiltons of Scotland and of Cos. Tyrone
and Tipperary. The brother of Sir
Charles *Hamilton. (DNB, Marshall 2,8, NC
5:1, O’Byrne)
+HAMILTON,
Midshipman Frederick (1793-1810/11; also used ROWAN as surname)
Co. Down family, a brother of Gawen William *Hamilton. (BurkeLG: 287, Marshall 10)
HAMILTON,
Captain Gawen William (d.1834) [a.k.a. GAWEN, William Hamilton]
French-born son of Archibald Hamilton Rowan of Co. Down. (BurkeLG: 287, DNB, Marshall 10) [see also
William Rowen *Hamilton]
HAMILTON,
Commander John (d.1871)
Co. Donegal family. Married Miss
Richards of Co. Wexford. (BurkeLG: 291, Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
HAMILTON,
Lieutenant Richard Somerville (1778-1807)
A son of the 5th Viscount Boyne of Co. Meath and Martha
Matilda Somerville of Co. Meath.
(BurkeP: 154, NC 21:352)
HAMILTON, Lieutenant Thomas (b.1801)
1830 married Ann Miller of Co.
Donegal. (O’Byrne)
Hamilton,
Captain William Rowen (dates unknown)
BBA: Taylor identifies this officer as an Irish native and one-time
student of Trinity College. However, the bare details given of his naval career
make it clear that the reference is to Gawen William *Hamilton.
HANDFIELD,
Commander Edward (d.1839)
Co. Dublin family. (Marshall 8)
HARDY, Lieutenant Thomas (RN 1807)
1821 married Eliza Phillips of
Kinsale, Co. Cork. (O’Byrne)
HARRINGTON,
Lieutenant Daniel (1776-1837)
Born Waterford. (TR)
HARVEY,
Lieutenant John (d.1814)
Co. Dublin family, a son of Mary Harrison of Co. Cork. (BurkeLG: 300)
HARVEY,
?Midshipman (dates unknown)
A brother of John *Harvey.
(BurkeLG: 300)
HATTON,
Commander Henry John (1790-1832)
Born Dublin. A brother of
Villiers Francis *Hatton. (Marshall 7,
12)
HATTON,
Vice-Admiral Villiers Francis
(1787-1859)
Born Waterford, a brother of Henry John *Hatton. 1817 married Harriet La Touche of Co.
Carlow. (Boase 1, Marshall 12, O’Byrne)
HAWKSHAW,
Lieutenant Hugh (RN 1810)
Co. Londonderry family. (O’Byrne)
HAY, Commander Robert Sinclair (RN 1812)
1831 married Jane Knox of Co.
Derry. (O’Byrne)
HEARD,
Lieutenant George (dates unknown)
Co. Cork family, a son of Susan Maunsell of Co. Limerick. (BurkeLG: 306)
HEARD,
Lieutenant William (d.1823)
Co. Cork family, a son of Judith Ellis of Co. Cork. Married Anne Heard, a cousin. [N.b., Burke
gives Heard as a Commander, but Syrett & DiNardo list him only as a
Lieutenant of 1794.] (BurkeLG: 306)
HELY-HUTCHINSON,
Commander Hon. Coote (d.1842)
Co. Dublin family, a son of Frances Wilhelmina Nixon of Co. Wexford and
brother of John Hely-Hutchinson, 3rd
Earl of Donoughmore. 1834 married
Sophia Synge-Hutchinson of Co. Wicklow.
(BurkeP: 416, 710, Marshall 8;
DNB for the brother)
HEPENSTAL,
Commander William (d.1809)
Co. Wicklow family, a son of Jane Lambert of Kilcrony. (BurkeLG: 312, NC 22:352, TR)
HERBERT,
Commander Massy Hutchinson (1788-1836)
Co. Kerry family. (Marshall 8)
+HERBERT,
Lieutenant Robert Hutchinson (d.1832)
Brother of Massey Hutchinson *Herbert.
(Marshall 8)
HERBERT,
Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas (1793-1861)
Co. Kerry family. (Boase 1,
Crone, DNB, Marshall 12, O’Byrne)
HERRICK,
Captain Edward (1793-1862)
Co. Cork family, a son of Annie Moore of Co. Cork. (BurkeLG: 316, O’Byrne, TR)
HERRICK,
Captain William Henry (1784-1863)
A brother of Edward *Herrick. 1814 married Mary de la Cour of Co.
Cork. (BurkeLG: 316, Marshall 7, O’Byrne)
HEWSON,
Vice-Admiral George (1776-1870)
Co. Kerry family, a son of Margaret Sandes / Saunders of Queen’s
Co. (Marshall
12, O’Byrne, TR)
HEWSON,
Commander Maurice (1786-1870)
Co. Kerry family, a brother of Vice-Admiral George *Hewson. Married Anna Hunt of Dublin. (O’Byrne)
HEYLAND,
Commander James (1790-1863)
Co. Coleraine family. (O’Byrne)
Higgs,
Lieutenant John (a Lieutenant of 1799; d.?1810)
Irish Sea Fencible service, 1804.
(IS 14; N.b., the death date of 1799 in Syrett & DiNardo is a
mistaken transcription)
Hill,
Captain Marcus Samuel (d.1834)
Irish Sea Fencible service, 1804.
(IS 14, Marshall 3)
HOARE,
Admiral Edward Wallis (1779-1870)
Born Cork, a son Clotilda Wallis of Co. Cork and relative of Sir Robert
*Stopford. 1803 married Mary Fitzgerald
of Cork. (Boase 1, Marshall 10, O’Byrne)
HOBSON,
Captain William (1793-1842)
Born Waterford. (Marshall 6, Scholefield, Shaw) [see also
William *M’Guire]
HODDER,
Commander Michael (d.1868)
Co. Cork family, a son of Sarah Norris of Co. Cork. (BurkeLG: 324, O’Byrne)
HODDER,
Commander Peter (d. 1859)
Co. Cork family. A brother of
Michael *Hodder. (BurkeLG: 324, O’Byrne)
HODDER,
Commander Robert (RN 1809)
Co. Cork family. A brother of Michael *Hodder. (O’Byrne)
HODDER, Lieutenant
Thomas Eyre (RN 1811)
Co. Cork family, a son of Harriet Clements, a niece of the Earl of
Leitrim. (O’Byrne)
HOOD, Commander Silas Thomson (1789-1851)
1822 married Catherine Hamilton of
Co. Donegal. (Marshall 7, O’Byrne)
Hope, Vice-Admiral Sir William Johnson (1766-1831)
1821 married (2) Maria, Dowager Countess of Athlone. N.B. Marshall gives
her as Englishwoman by birth. (DNB,
Marshall 2, Ralfe 3)
HORE,
Commander Henry Cavendish (1790-1867)
A brother of Samuel Bradstreet *Hore.
1835 married Clarissa Isabella Beauman, a niece of Sir Francis
*Beauman. (Marshall 7, O’Byrne)
HORE,
Commander James Stopford (d.1848)
A brother of Samuel Bradstreet *Hore.
(Marshall 7, O’Byrne)
HORE,
Captain Samuel Bradstreet (d.1852)
Co. Wexford family. (Marshall 7,
O’Byrne)
+HORE,
Commander Herbert William (d.1823)
Co. Wexford family. (O’Byrne under his son Edward George)
HOTCHKIS, Commander John (1766-1852)
1800 married Mary Pearce of Co.
Westmeath. (O’Byrne)
HOTHAM, Captain Hon. George Frederick (1799-1856)
From a Yorkshire family with a long connection with Co. Kilkenny. 1824 married Lady Susan Maria O’Bryen, niece
of Lord James *O’Bryen, Marquis of Thomond.
(BurkeP: 695, Marshall 6,
O’Byrne)
Hotham,
Vice-Admiral Hon. Sir Henry (1777-1833)
From a Yorkshire family with a long connection with Co. Kilkenny, a son
of 2nd Baron Hotham of the
Irish peerage. (BurkeP: 695, DNB,
Marshall 2, Ralfe 3) [see also Sir John
*Sutton]
Hotham,
Admiral Lord William (1736-1813)
1st Baron Hotham of the
Irish peerage. From a Yorkshire family
with a long connection with Co. Kilkenny.
(BurkeP: 694-5, Charnock 6, DNB, NC
9:341, Ralfe 1)
Hotham,
Admiral Sir William [a] (1772-1848)
From a Yorkshire family with a long connection with Co. Kilkenny, a son of
2nd Lord Hotham of the Irish
peerage and nephew of Admiral Lord William *Hotham. A brother-in-law of Lord Edward
*O’Bryen. (BurkeP: 694, DNB, Marshall 2,
Ralfe 3)
Hotham,
Admiral Sir William [b] (1794-1873)
A nephew of Admiral Sir William
*Hotham [a]. (BurkeP: 694, O’Byrne)
HOUGH, Commander John James (1785-1849)
1815 married Miss Tracey of Co. Cork. (Marshall 8, O’Byrne; for
Miss Tracey’s origins see the O’Byrne entry for her brother, Lieutenant
Benjamin Wheatley Tracey)
HOWE,
Admiral of the Fleet Richard, Earl (1726-1799)
English-born son of an Irish father. (BBA, Charnock 5, DNB, NC 1:1, Ralfe 1)
HUGHES,
Lieutenant Abraham (d.1832)
Co. Wexford family, a son of Jane Clifford of Co. Wexford. (BurkeLG: 329)
HUMPHRIES,
Lieutenant Harry (d.1799)
A nephew of Admiral Lord *Gardner.
(NC 2:644)
HUNGERFORD, Thomas (RN 1809)
1835 married Caroline Trotter of Co.
Down. (O’Byrne)
HUNT,
Lieutenant Charles (d.1803)
Co. Tipperary family. (BurkeLG:
335)
HUTCHISON,
Commander William (1793-1881)
Born Dublin, a son of Elizabeth Mores of Dublin. 1818 married Elizabeth Knox of Co. Down. (NC 39:176, O’Byrne)
HYDE,
Lieutenant Robert Boyle (1718-1802)
Cos. Cork and Tipperary family.
(BurkeLG: 341)
IRWIN,
Commander Joseph (1792-1890)
1826 married Emily Dixon of
Dublin. (O’Byrne)
ISAAC, see
BUNBURY
JELLICOE,
Commander Henry (d.1836)
1822 married Jane King of Cos. Dublin and Fermanagh. (BurkeP: 749)
Jennings,
Lieutenant Edward (1793-1852)
From a ‘Ballingrove’ family, which may perhaps be an Irish place-name
[?Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo]. (O’Byrne)
JERVIS-WHITE-JERVIS,
Commander Sir Henry Meredyth (1793-1869)
Born Co. Dublin, a son of Jane Nisbett of Co. Longford. (Boase 2, O’Byrne)
JESSOP,
Lieutenant Samuel (d.1813)
Born Tipperary. (TR)
JOCELYN,
Lieutenant Hon. James Bligh (1789-1812)
A son of the Earl of Roden, of Co. Tipperary. (BurkeP: 1116, NC 28:88; DNB for the Jocelyn
Viscounts and Earls)
JOCELYN,
Captain Robert (d.1806)
A close relative of Viscount Jocelyn.
(Charnock 6; DNB for the Irish Jocelyn Viscounts and Earls)
JOHNSON,
Captain Edward (1777-1854)
Born Co. Antrim. 1803 married
Sarah Mountford of Co. Antrim. (Marshall 7, O’Byrne)
JOHNSON,
Lieutenant William Benjamin (d.1822)
Born Cork. (TR; N.b., the Syrett
& DiNardo entry for this officer is incorrectly transcribed from TR).
JONES,
Admiral Hon. Alexander (1778-1862)
A son of the 4th
Viscount Ranelagh of Co. Roscommon and Sarah Montgomery of Co.
Donegal. (Boase 2, Marshall 10, O’Byrne;
DNB for the family of Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh)
JONES,
Captain Charles, Viscount Ranelagh (d.1800)
An elder brother of Hon. Alexander *Jones. (BurkeP: 1090, NC 4:528, 5:96)
JONES,
Admiral Sir Lewis Tobias (1797/9-1895)
From a Co. Sligo family of Welsh origins. (BBA: Pratt, Boase 2, Crone, DNB:Supp.,
O’Byrne)
JONES,
Admiral Theobald (1790-1868)
Born Dublin to a Co. Derry family.
(BBA: Britten, Boase 2, Marshall 6,
O’Byrne)
JONES,
Admiral Theophilus (d.1835)
The uncle of Theobald *Jones. (Marshall
1, O’Byrne )
KATON,
Vice-Admiral James (1770-1845)
Of an ancient Irish family.
(Marshall 3, O’Byrne) [also see Captain Henry *Vaughan]
KELLETT,
Commander Augustus Henry (d.1828)
Co. Cork family. (BurkeP: 734)
KENNEDY,
Captain Alexander (d.1864)
Co. Down family, a son of Elizabeth Cole of Co. Fermanagh. 1821 married Elizabeth Rolleston, a member of
the Boyd family of Co. Donegal.
(BurkeLG: 366, Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
KERR, Vice-Admiral Lord Mark Robert (d.1840)
1799 married Charlotte Kerr, Countess of Antrim. (BurkeP: 43, Marshall 2)
+KING,
Captain Hon. Edward (d.1807)
A brother of Hon. James William *King.
(BurkeP: 752, O’Byrne)
KING,
Captain George Morrison (d.1858)
A brother of James William *King.
1825 married Mrs Anne Sarah Hoey (the former Miss Forde, of Co. Down) of
Co. Wicklow. (Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
KING,
Rear-Admiral Hon. James William (d.1848)
A son of the Earl of Kingston of Co. Roscommon and Catherine Fitzgerald
of Co. Kildare, and a brother of Captain George Morrison *King. 1815 married Caroline Cleaver, a daughter of
the Archbishop of Dublin. (BurkeP: 752,
BurkeP: Marshall 9, NC 34:440, O’Byrne)
KINGSMILL,
Admiral Sir Robert Brice (1730-1805) [formerly Brice, Robert]
Born either Belfast or Co. Donegal, a son of Charles Brice of Kilroot,
nr. Belfast, and Jane Kingsmill Robinson of Co. Down. Married Elizabeth Corry of Co. Down. (BBA:Ryan, Crone, DNB, Charnock 6, NC 5:189, Ralfe 1).
[see also Robert Kingsmill *M’Clure and John King *Pulling]
KIRWAN,
John (rank not specified; d.1825)
Co. Galway family, a son of Elizabeth Frances Blake of Co. Mayo. (BurkeLG: 372)
KNIGHT, Capt. George William Henry (d.1838)
1804 married Miss Thomson of Co. Waterford. (Marshall 12)
KNOX,
Admiral Hon. Edmund Sexten Pery (1787-1867)
Son of the 1st Earl of
Ranfurly of Co. Tyrone and Diana Jane Pery, daughter of Viscount Pery, Speaker
of Irish House of Commons. (BurkeP:
1092, Marshall 11).
LAMBERT,
Lieutenant James (d.1836)
Co. Wexford family. (BurkeLG:
381)
Langley,
Captain Lawrence (dates unknown)
Co. Tipperary family. I can find
no other record of this officer.
(BurkeLG: 383)
LANPHIER,
Commander Vernon (d.1867)
Born in Ireland. (O’Byrne, TR)
LARKAN,
Commander John (d.1830)
Born Co. Westmeath, a brother of Robert *Larkan. (Marshall 3, 6)
LARKAN,
Captain Robert (1756-1841)
Born Co. Westmeath, a brother of John *Larkan. (Marshall 3)
LAWRANCE, Lieutenant Henry (b.1789)
1837 married Mary Chute of Co.
Kerry. (O’Byrne)
LECALE,
Vice-Admiral Hon. Charles Fitzgerald, Lord (1756-1810)
A son of James Fitzgerald, 1st Duke of Leinster. (BurkeP: 796, 854, IS 6, NC 21:13, 23:264,
24:263; DNB for the Duke) [see also
Alexander *Ellice, Charles *Fitzgerald, Robert Lewis *Fitzgerald, Thomas *Foley,
George Francis *Lyon and Frederick Fitzgerald de *Roos]
Lecky,
Rear-Admiral James (d.1820)
Irish Sea Fencible service, 1804.
(IS 14)
LEE,
Admiral Sir Richard (1765-1837)
English-born to Dublin family. (Marshall 2, Ralfe 3)
LESLIE,
Rear-Admiral Samuel (1779-1851)
Born Co. Antrim. (BurkeLG: 384,
Marshall 12, O’Byrne)
LEWIS,
Lieutenant Robert (d.1840)
Co. Dublin family, a son of Anne Frizell of Co. Dublin. (BurkeLG: 405)
LETT,
Commander Stephen Joshua (b.1801)
Born Co. Wexford. (O’Byrne)
LLOYD,
?Midshipman Merrick (d.1805)
A Norfolk man from an old Co. Roscommon family. (BurkeLG: 409, NC 16:175)
LLOYD,
Commander Richard or Rickart (1790-1859)
Co. Cork family. 1816 married Susan Heard of Co. Cork. (O’Byrne)
LLOYD,
William (dates uncertain)
Co. Limerick family, a son of Ellen Lloyd of Co. Clare. Burke is unclear as to whether this is
Admiral William Lloyd (d.1796) or Lieutenant William Lloyd (d.1805). (BurkeLG: 410)
LOFTUS,
Commander Arthur (d.1861)
Irish family, a son of Ellen Gifford
of Co. Meath. (O’Byrne)
LOWRY,
Lieutenant William (RN 1805)
Co. Tyrone family. (O’Byrne)
LUTTREL,
see OLMIUS
LYON, Commander Francis (1784-1868)
1817 married Eliza Fawcett of
Portarlington, Co. Offaly. (O’Byrne)
LYON, Captain George Francis (1795-1832)
1825 married Lucy Louisa Fitzgerald, a daughter of Lord Edward
Fitzgerald and granddaughter of James, Duke of Leinster. (BurkeP: 797, DNB, Marshall 5) [see also Alexander *Ellice, Charles
*Fitzgerald, Robert Lewis *Fitzgerald, Thomas *Foley, Lord *Lecale and
Frederick Fitzgerald de *Roos]
LYSTER,
Rear-Admiral Henry (1799-1864)
Co. Dublin family. (BurkeLG: 427,
O’Byrne)
MacBRIDE,
Admiral John (d.1800)
Scottish by birth, but raised in Co. Antrim. (BBA:Ryan, Charnock 6, Crone, DNB, NC 19:265,
21:17, Norie, Ralfe 1)
M’CLINTOCK,
Captain William Bunbury (1800-1866; BUNBURY alone sometimes seen as surname)
Co. Louth family, a son of Jane Bunbury of Co. Carlow. 1842 married Pauline Stronge of Co.
Armagh. (Boase 6, O’Byrne)
McClure,
Rear-Admiral Robert John LeMesurier (1807-1873)
Born Co. Wexford, a son of Jane Elgee of Wexford. N.B. although this officer did not join the
RN until after 1815, he has been included as Webb states his unnamed father to
have been a Navy officer who had died in 1806, during our period. DNB however gives him as an Army officer.
Syrett & DiNardo do not list any commissioned McClure as having served in
the RN of the time, thus giving silent support to the DNB statement. (DNB, Webb)
M’CLURE,
Midshipman Robert Kingsmill (d.1811)
A nephew of Admiral Sir Robert *Kingsmill. (NC 25:87)
McCULLOCK or M’CULLOCK, Commander Andrew
(1785-1817)
Born Ireland. (TR)
MacDONNELL,
Captain Randall (d.1806)
Co. Clare family, a son of Catherine O’Brien of Co. Clare. (BurkeLG: 440)
McDONNELL,
Lieutenant Thomas (1788-1864/5)
Born Co. Antrim. (O’Byrne, Scholefield)
McFARLANE,
?Midshipman Francis James (dates unknown)
A son of James Hepburne *M’Farland.
(BurkeLG: 442)
M’FARLAND
or McFARLANE, Captain James Hepburne (1769-1852)
Born Co. Dublin, a son of Scots parents who had settled in Co.
Meath. (BurkeLG: 442, Marshall 6, O’Byrne)
M’GLADERY,
Lieutenant John (b.1776)
Born Co. Tyrone. (O’Byrne)
M’GUIRE or M’GWIRE, Captain William (1766-1850)
Dublin and Co. Waterford family.
1802 married Mary, a sister of
William *Hobson. Irish Sea
Fencibles, 1797-1803. (IS 14, Marshall
6, O’Byrne)
M’KILLOP,
Commander John (1788-1863)
Co. Antrim family. Married Anne Dickey of Co. Antrim. (O’Byrne)
+M’KILLOP,
Lieutenant David (d.1805/6)
The father of John *M’Killop. (O’Byrne)
+M’KILLOP,
Lieutenant Richard (d.1812)
The brother of John *M’Killop. (O’Byrne)
MacNAMARA,
Admiral Sir Burton (1794-1876)
Co. Clare family, a son of Jane Stamer of Co. Clare. 1832 married Jane Gabbett of Co. Limerick. (Boase 2, Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
MacNAMARA,
Rear-Admiral James (1768-1826)
Of an ancient Irish family.
(Crone, DNB, Marshall 2) [see
also John MacNamara *Donnellan]
MAGAN,
Commander Arthur (1794-1858 or 1870)
King’s Co. family, a son of Hannah Georgina Tilson of Co. Kildare. (BurkeLG: 449, O’Byrne; N.b., the earlier death date is given by Syrett &
DiNardo, the later by Burke)
MAITLAND, Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick Lewis (1777-1839)
1804 married Catherine Connor of Co. Cork, the sister of Captain Richard
*Conner. (BBA:Ward, DNB, Marshall 3;
O’Byrne for Captain Connor’s sister)
MAITLAND, Rear-Admiral John (1771-1836)
1820 married Dora Bateman of Co. Kerry.
(Marshall 2)
MALONE,
Lieutenant Edmund (1786-1863)
Born Co. Westmeath, a son of Anne
Crosbie of Co. Kerry. (BurkeLG: 454,
O’Byrne)
MANGIN,
Rear-Admiral Reuben Caillard (1780-1846)
Born Dublin. 1803 married
Magdalene d’Abzac of Dublin. (Marshall
9, O’Byrne)
MARSH,
Rear-Admiral Digby (d.1863)
Co. Kilkenny or Queen’s Co. family.
(BurkeLG: 459, Marshall 8,
O’Byrne)
MARSH,
Lieutenant Robert (dates unknown)
A younger brother of Digby *Marsh.
(BurkeLG: 459)
MARSHAM,
Admiral Henry Shovell Jones (d.1875; later used JONES as surname)
English-born of Irish ancestry.
1838 married Maria Sophia Marsham Jones of Co. Leitrim. (BurkeLG: 461, Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
MARTIN,
Admiral of the Fleet Sir George (1764-1847)
A grandson of Arabella Dawson of Co. Derry. (DNB, Marshall 2, Ralfe 2) [see also various members of the *Rowley family,
also descended from Arabella Dawson.]
MARTIN, Captain Sir Henry, Comptroller of the Navy
(d.1794)
The father of Sir Thomas Byam *Martin. Married Mrs Eliza Ann Gillman,
née Parker, of Co. Cork. (Charnock 6; Marshall, O’Byrne under the
son for the marriage)
MARTIN,
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas Byam (1773-1854)
Son of Sir Henry *Martin and father of Sir William Fanshawe
*Martin. (Boase 2, DNB, Marshall 2,
O’Byrne, Ralfe 3)
MARTIN,
Captain William (1783-1866)
Co. Cork family. (Marshall 8,
O’Byrne, TR)
MARTIN,
Admiral Sir William Fanshawe (1801-1895)
A son of Sir Thomas Byam *Martin.
(Boase 2, DNB:Supp, Marshall 5, O’Byrne)
MASON,
Captain Thomas Monck (d.1838)
Of an old Irish family. (Marshall 6; DNB for his several close
Mason relatives, usually with ‘Monck’ in their names)
MAUDE,
Captain Hon. Francis (1798-1886)
A brother of Hon. James Ashley *Maude.
Married Georgina Bushe of Co. Kilkenny.
(BurkeLG: 92, Boase 2, O’Byrne)
MAUDE,
Captain Hon. James Ashley (1786-1841)
A son of Viscount Hawarden of Co. Tipperary. (Marshall 7, 12)
MAUNSELL,
Midshipman Richard (d.1800)
Co. ?Clare family. (BurkeLG: 470)
MAUNSELL,
Captain Robert (1785-1845)
Born Limerick, a son of Lucy Oliver of Co. Limerick, a relative of
Admiral Robert *Oliver. (Marshall 12,
O’Byrne)
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MAYNE,
Commander Dawson (b.1799)
Born Dublin, a cousin of Robert
*Mayne. (Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
MAYNE,
Commander Robert (1783-1846)
A cousin of Dawson *Mayne. (O’Byrne, TR)
MEADE,
Captain John (1782-1851)
A son of Hon. Mary, a sister of Admiral Hon. Michael de *Courcy. (Marshall
7, O’Byrne)
MEREDITH,
Captain Richard (1789-1850)
Born Co. Kerry. (Marshall 8, O’Byrne, TR)
MILWARD, Rear-Admiral Clement (d.1857)
1815 married Eliza Dawson of Co. Wexford. (BurkeP: 366, Marshall 11, O’Byrne)
MINCHIN,
Lieutenant Edward (dates unknown)
Co. Tipperary family, a cousin of Paul *Minchin. (BurkeLG: 480)
MINCHIN,
Vice-Admiral Paul (d.1810)
An English-born member of a Co. Tipperary family and a son of Clarinda
Cuppaidge of Co. Dublin. (BurkeLG: 479)
MINCHIN,
Lieutenant Peter (d.1801)
A brother of Paul *Minchin.
(BurkeLG: 479)
MOLESWORTH,
Captain Bourchier (1778-1855)
A cousin of Francis and John *Molesworth. (BurkeP: 915, Marshall 7, O’Byrne)
MOLESWORTH,
Lieutenant Francis (d.1812)
London-born to Cos. Dublin and Meath family, a brother of John
*Molesworth. (BurkeP: 914, TR)
MOLESWORTH,
Captain John (d.1858)
English-born brother of Francis *Molesworth. (BurkeP: 914, Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
Montgomery,
Lieutenant George Augustus Frederick Sandys (d.1827)
Co. Down family. I can find no
other mention of this officer. (BurkeLG:
485)
MONTGOMERY,
Captain Thomas (1786-1869)
Co. Monaghan or Co. Louth family, a son of Sophia Mabella Tipping of Co.
Louth. (BurkeLG: 487, Marshall 7, O’Byrne)
MOORE,
Lieutenant John Arthur (1791-1860)
Irish-born officer in both the RN and the forces of the Honourable East
India Company. (Boase 2, O’Byrne)
MORGAN,
Rear-Admiral James (d.1862)
Co. Donegal family. (Marshall 8,
O’Byrne)
MORGAN,
Lieutenant Robert (d.1849)
Co. Cork family. (O’Byrne)
MORIARTY, Captain Edmund Joshua (d.1833)
Married Lady Lucy Luttrell, a daughter of the Earl of Carhampton. (BurkeP: 1059, Marshall 10) [see also Henry
*Dawson and John Luttrel *Olmius]
+MORIARTY,
Commander James (d.1838)
Co. Cork family. (Crone under his
son Henry Augustus Moriarty)
+MORIARTY,
Midshipman Martin (dates unknown)
A son of Sylverius *Moriarty. (O’Byrne under his brother William *Moriarty)
MORIARTY,
Commander Merion Marshall (d.1847 or 1864)
A son of Sylverius
*Moriarty. Married Anne Orpen of Co.
Kerry. N.B. The earlier death date is
given by Shaw, the later by Syrett & DiNardo. (O’Byrne; Shaw under his brother William
*Moriarty)
+MORIARTY,
Lieutenant Peter (dates unknown)
A son of Sylverius *Moriarty.
(O’Byrne under his brother William *Moriarty)
MORIARTY,
Commander Redmond (d.1851)
A son of Sylverius *Moriarty.
Married (1) Dorcas Helene Orpen of Co Kerry; married (2) Rachel Ann
Mayberry of Co Kerry. (O’Byrne) [See also Henry *Morris, who also married a
Miss Orpen]
+MORIARTY,
Vice-Admiral Sylverius Moriarty (d.1809)
The father of William *Moriarty and the other five *Moriarty brothers. (O’Byrne and Shaw under William
*Moriarty) [see also Peter John
*Douglas]
+MORIARTY,
Midshipman Sylverius (d.1800)
A son of Sylverius
*Moriarty. (O’Byrne under his brother
William *Moriarty)
MORIARTY,
Commander William (1792-1850)
Born Co. Kerry, a son of Sylverius *Moriarty. Married Aphra Crump of Co. Kerry. (Marshall
8, O’Byrne, Shaw)
MORRES,
Lieutenant Edward d’Alton (d.1815)
Co. Kilkenny family, a son of Mary Eyre d’Alton of Co. Clare. (BurkeP: 542) [see also Henry *Hodder]
MORRIS, Rear-Admiral Henry Gage (1770-1851)
1804 married Rebecca Newenham Millerd Orpen of Co. Kerry. (Marshall
11, O’Byrne) [See also entries for
the *Moriarty brothers, two of whom married Misses Orpen.]
MORRIS,
Lieutenant Richard (d.1832)
Co. Waterford family. Married a
daughter of the Dean of Waterford.
(BurkeLG: 496)
MORRISON, Commander Richard James (1795-1874)
1827 married Sarah Mary Paul of
Waterford. (O’Byrne)
Mullock or Mulock, Captain Joshua (d.1805)
Irish Sea Fencible service, 1804.
(IS 14)
NAGLE,
Admiral Sir Edmund (1757-1830)
Co. Cork family, related to the political philosopher Edmund Burke via
the latter’s mother. (BBA:NBD, Crone,
DNB, Marshall 1; DNB for Edmund’s mother) [see also Henry *Burke and Walter
*Burke]
NAPIER,
Captain Henry Edward (b.1789)
Irish-born into a well-known Scots family. (Marshall
6, Napier, O’Byrne)
+NEWENHAM,
Lieutenant Charles Burton (d.1793)
The uncle of William Persse *Newenham.
(O’Byrne)
NEWENHAM,
Lieutenant William Persse (b.1790)
A grandson of the Irish politician Sir Edward Newenham. (O’Byrne)
NIXON,
Lieutenant James (d.1847)
Cos. Cavan and Fermanagh family, a son of Elizabeth Johnston of Co.
Fermanagh. (BurkeLG: 513, O’Byrne)
NUGENT,
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Edmund
(1759?-1844)
A son of Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. Edmund Nugent, of the family of Barons
Devlin, Earls of Westmeath and Earls Nugent.
(DNB, Marshall 1, NC 10:441, Ralfe 2)
[see also Hon. John *Rodney]
NUGENT,
Commander John (b.1782)
Co. Westmeath family. A son of Matilda O’Donel of Co. Leitrim. (O’Byrne)
NUGENT, see
also SAVAGE
O’BRIEN, Rear-Admiral Donat Henchy (1785-1857)
Born Co. Clare, a son of Hannah Henchy of Co. Clare. (BurkeLG: 309, Boase 2, Crone, DNB, Marshall
12, NC 28-31 [several entries in each volume], O’Byrne)
O’BRIEN,
Rear-Admiral Robert (d.1838)
Co. Clare family, an O’Brien of Inchiquin and Thomond. Married Anne O’Brien, a cousin. (BurkeP: 715, Marshall 4; O’Byrne under his son, Lieutenant Robert
O’Brien) [also see John Fitzgerald
*Studdert]
O’BRYEN,
Rear-Admiral Edward (1754?-1808)
Born in Ireland. (Crone, DNB, NC
21:88)
O’BRYEN or O’BRIEN, Captain Hon. Lord Edward
(d.1824)
A brother of Lord James *O’Bryen of Co. Clare. 1805 married a sister of Admiral Sir William *Hotham. (BurkeP: 714, Marshall 4; NC 12:164, 24:515,
33:351)
O’BRYEN or O’BRIEN, Admiral Rt Hon. Lord James,
Earl of Inchiquin and Marquis of Thomond
(1769-1855)
Ancient Irish family. (Boase 3
[under Thomond], Crone, DNB, Marshall 3, O’Byrne [under Thomond] Ralfe 4) [See also George Frederick *Hotham and Edward
*Saurin.]
O’BRYEN,
Captain Hon. John (d.1804)
A member of the Inchiquin family.
(NC 7:842)
O’CONNELL, Lieutenant Maurice Fitzgerald (d.1856)
Married Agnes Gorham of Co.
Kerry. (O’Byrne)
O’CONOR,
Rear-Admiral Sir Richard (1784/5-1855)
Co. Cork or Co. Louth family, a son of Miss Terry of Co. Cork. (BurkeLG: 525, Boase 2, Marshall 11, O’Byrne)
OGLE, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles (1775-1858)
1802 married (1) Charlotte Margaret Gage, a sister of Admiral Sir
William Hall *Gage; 1820 married (2) Letitia Burroughs of Co. Cavan. (BBA:Welford, DNB, Marshall 2, NC 7:452,
O’Byrne)
O’GRADY,
Admiral Hayes (1784-1864)
Co. Limerick family. (Boase 2, BurkeP: 607, Marshall
11, O’Byrne)
O’GRADY, John
Waller (1796-1867)
Co. Limerick family, a son of Viscount Guillamore and Elizabeth
Thomasina Waller, both of Co. Limerick; a cousin of Hayes *O’Grady. (BurkeLG: 531, BurkeP: 607)
OLIVER,
Admiral Robert Dudley (d.1850)
A resident of Dublin. Captain Robert
*Maunsell was the son of a Co. Limerick lady related to the Admiral. (DNB, Marshall 2, O’Byrne)
OLMIUS,
Captain Hon. John Luttrel, Lord Newark and Earl Carhampton (d.1829; took Olmius
surname in 1787)
Of the family of the Luttrell Earls Carhampton of Co. Dublin. 1765 married Hon. Miss Olmius, a sister of
Lord Waltham of Ireland. (Charnock 6;
DNB under his brother-in-law, Captain James Luttrell) [see also Hon. Henry *Dawson and Edmund
Joshua *Moriarty]
+O’NEILL,
Midshipman Charles Stuart (dates unknown; died as Midshipman).
A son of Commander Terence O’Neill.
(Marshall 6)
O’NEILL,
Commander Terence (1773-1832)
English-born of Co. Antrim family.
(Marshall 6)
O’REILLY,
Captain Dowell (d.1816/17)
Queen’s Co. family, a son of Elizabeth Knox of Co. Louth. (BurkeLG: 539, NC 35:516)
O’REILLY,
Commander John Roberts (1794-1873)
Co. Meath family, a son of Margaret Sibthorpe of Co. Louth. (BurkeLG: 540, Crone, O’Byrne)
O’REILLY,
Midshipman Lavalin (dates unknown)
Co. Westmeath family, a son of Catherine Marianne Matthew of Co.
Tipperary. (BurkeP: 992)
OTWAY,
Admiral Sir Robert Waller (1770-1846)
Co. Tipperary family, a son of Elizabeth Waller of Co. Tipperary. (Crone, DNB, Marshall 2, 8, NC 34:352, O’Byrne,
Ralfe 4)
OTWAY,
Vice-Admiral William Albany (1756-1815)
Co. Tipperary family. (NC 31:441,
34:176)
OWEN,
Rear-Admiral Richard (RN 1811)
Co. Wexford family. (Marshall 8,
O’Byrne)
PAGET,
Vice-Admiral Hon. Sir Charles
(1778-1839)
Son of Jane Champagné, a daughter of the Dean of Clonmacnoise. 1805 married Elizabeth Araminta Monck of Co.
Westmeath. (DNB, Marshall 2) [see also
Arthur *Borrowes]
PAKENHAM,
Lieutenant Henry (1805-1838/39)
A son of Sir Thomas *Pakenham. (BurkeP: 826, O’Byrne)
PAKENHAM,
Admiral John (1790-1876)
A son of Sir Thomas *Pakenham.
(Boase 2, BurkeP: 826, Marshall 5,
O’Byrne)
PAKENHAM,
Admiral Hon. Sir Thomas (1757-1836)
A son of Lord Longford and Elizabeth Cuffe, later Countess Longford in
own right. (BBA:NBD and Taylor, BurkeP:
826, Crone, DNB, Marshall 1, Ralfe 2)
PAKENHAM,
Captain Hon. William (d.1811)
A nephew of Sir Thomas
*Pakenham. (BurkeP: 827, NC 27:88,
O’Byrne)
PARKER,
Admiral Sir Charles Christopher (1792-1869)
An English-born son of Christopher *Parker. (Boase 2, DNB, Marshall 12, O’Byrne)
PARKER,
Vice-Admiral Christopher (1761-1804)
A son of Sir Peter *Parker. (DNB;
NC 11:493)
PARKER,
Admiral Sir George (1767-1847)
A nephew of Sir *Peter Parker.
(DNB, Marshall 2, O’Byrne;
Ralfe 4)
PARKER,
Captain Henry (1788-1873)
Co. Cork family. (Marshall 7, TR)
PARKER,
Commander Henry Harding (d.1796/97)
Co. Cork family, a son of Anne d’Esterre of Co. Clare. (BurkeLG: 551)
PARKER,
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Peter
(1721-1811)
From an old Irish family.
(Charnock 6, Crone, DNB, NC 12:169, 27:88, O’Byrne footnote biography
under entry for Admiral Sir Charles Christopher *Parker, Ralfe 1)
PARKER,
Captain Sir Peter, Bart (1785-1814)
A son of Christopher *Parker.
(DNB)
PATERSON, Commander
William Love (1781-1856)
Born Co. Cork. (O’Byrne)
+PATERSON,
Master’s Mate Thomas (1783?-1804)
A brother of William Love
*Paterson. (O’Byrne)
PAUL,
Captain Christmas (d.1816)
Co. Carlow family, a son of Ellen Carew of Cos. Waterford and Wexford. (BurkeP: 1028, NC 36:518)
PAYNE, Rear-Admiral Charles Frederick (1779-1849)
1817 married Barbara Ffolliott of Co. Sligo. (BurkeLG: 222, Marshall 8, O’Byrne) [see also Philip Holman *Ffolliott]
PAYNE,
Rear-Admiral John Willett (1752-1803)
A son of Miss Galloway, an Irish
lady. (DNB, NC 3:1, 8:438)
PEACOCKE,
Vice-Admiral Richard (d.1846)
Probably English-born to a Co. Cork family, a son of Mary Peacocke of
Co. Clare. (BurkeLG: 553, Marshall 3, O’Byrne)
PEARSON, Commander Charles (RN 1801)
1831 married Miss Knight of Co.
Limerick. (O’Byrne)
PENFOLD, Lieutenant George (RN 1807)
1824 married Mary Collier of Co.
Dublin. (O’Byrne)
PENNEFATHER,
Lieutenant William Westby (d.1849)
Co. Tipperary family. (BurkeLG:
554, O’Byrne) [see also Thomas *Evans
and Henry *Vansittart]
PENTLAND,
Lieutenant James Murray (RN 1812)
Co. Louth family. (O’Byrne)
Pepper,
Christopher Nicholson (rank and dates unknown)
Co. Meath family, a son of Eleanor Andrews of King’s Co. I have been unable to find further mention of
this officer. (BurkeLG: 556)
PERCEVAL,
Midshipman Charles John (1793-1808)
A brother of Edward *Perceval.
(BurkeLG: 558)
PERCEVAL,
Midshipman Edward (1792-1813)
Co. Wexford family, a son of Eleanor Andrews of King’s Co. (BurkeLG: 558)
PERCEVAL,
Admiral Hon. George James, 6 th Earl of Egmont (1794-1874)
Co. Cork family. (Boase 1 [under
Egmont], Marshall 12 , O’Byrne [under
Egmont], TR; DNB for the Perceval Earls of Egmont)
+PERCEVAL,
Captain Hon. Philip Tufton (1742-1795)
A son of John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont of Co. Cork. (DNB under the father).
PHEPOE,
Commander John (1786-1862)
Co. Dublin family. (O’Byrne, TR)
Pierce,
Commander George (RN 1803)
His son, George Patrick Pierce, is said to have been born in England but
raised ‘with his family in Ireland’. (O’Byrne; Scholefield for the son)
PILKINGTON,
Midshipman William Lowe (d.1809)
Co. Westmeath family, a son of Emilia Mulcock of King’s Co. (BurkeLG: 566)
POLE, see
WELLESLEY-POLE
POMEROY,
Commander Hon. George Francis (1797-1879; later used surname of COLLEY)
Co. Dublin and Kildare family, a son of Viscount Harberton. 1825 married Frances Trench [sic; ‘French’ in
O’Byrne], a daughter of the Dean of Kildare.
(BurkeP: 631, O’Byrne under Colley; DNB, Boase 1 under his son Sir
George Pomeroy Colley)
POPHAM,
Rear-Admiral Sir Home Riggs (1762-1820)
Of an Irish family, said variously to have been born in Ireland, on
Gibraltar or at Tetuan in Morocco.
(BBA:many entries, DNB, NC 16:265, 353, Webb)
POPHAM,
Captain Joseph Lamb (d.1833)
A half-brother of Sir Home Riggs *Popham. (Marshall 6)
POPHAM,
Captain William (1791-1864)
A son of Sir Home Riggs *Popham.
(Boase 2)
PORTER,
Commander Thomas (RN 1807)
Co. Longford family. (BurkeLG:
571, Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
POWELL, Commander
George Eyre (b.1790)
Co. Kildare family. (O’Byrne)
POWNEY, Commander Sir John (d.1836)
Married (1) Elizabeth Carleton, niece of the Lord Chief Justice of
Ireland. (Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
PROBY,
Captain Charles (d.1799)
From an English branch of the Proby Earls of Carysfort, Co. Wicklow, and
a cousin of Granville Leveson *Proby.
(BurkeP: 242, NC 1:446, 2:83)
PROBY,
Admiral Hon. Granville Leveson, 3rd
Earl of Carysfort (1781-1868)
Born Co. Wicklow, a son of the 1st Earl of Carysfort and Elizabeth Osborne of
Co. Tipperary. 1818 married Isabella
Howard, a granddaughter of the Countess of Wicklow. (Boase 1 under Carysfort, BurkeP: 243, DNB,
Marshall 9, O’Byrne, TR) [also see William *Wells]
+PROBY,
Captain Lord William Allen (d.1804)
The elder brother of Hon. Granville Leveson *Proby. (Marshall 9, NC 12:511)
PROBY,
Commander William Henry Baptist (b.1794)
An English-born nephew of Charles *Proby. (BurkeP: 242, Marshall 8)
PULLING, Captain John King (d.1798)
Married a daughter of Sir Robert Brice *Kingsmill. (NC 7:276)
PURCELL,
Admiral Edward (d.1869)
Born Queen’s Co. (Boase 2,
Marshall 6, O’Byrne)
RABETT,
Lieutenant George William (RN 1810)
1835 married Lady Lucy Louisa Maria Turnour, of the family of the Earls
of Winterton, Co. Galway, and a relative of Arthur Richard *Turnour. (BurkeP: 1403, O’Byrne)
RADSTOCK, see WALDEGRAVE
RAM,
Lieutenant James Stopford (1785-1809)
Co. Wexford family, a son of Elizabeth Stopford - herself a niece of the
Earl of Courtown - and a brother of William Alexander *Ram. (BurkeLG: 582, NC 21: 264) [see also Stewart *Blacker, James Stopford
*Ram, William Alexander *Ram, Sir Montague *Stopford, the Hon. Philip *Stopford
and the Hon. Sir Robert *Stopford]
RAM, Lieutenant
William Alexander [or Andrew]
(1784-1805)
Born Wexford. (BurkeLG: 582, NC
14:511, TR)
RAMSAY, Lieutenant Robert (RN 1804)
1837 married Anne O’Donnel of Co.
Antrim. (O’Byrne)
RAMSDEN, Commander Frank (b.1797)
1835 married Elizabeth Smith of Dublin. (Marshall
8, O’Byrne)
RANELEGH,
see JONES
RATHBONE or RATHBORNE, Captain Wilson (1748-1831)
Born Galway or Dublin to an English family. 1805 married a Miss French of Co.
Galway. (BurkeLG: 583, Crone, DNB,
Marshall 4, NC 14:511, Ralfe 4)
RAWLINS,
Commander Thomas (d.1860)
Born Dublin. (O’Byrne, TR)
REVANS, Commander Thomas (RN 1792)
Married Miss Scott of Co.
Cavan. (Marshall 7, O’Byrne)
RICHARDS,
Commander Edwin (RN 1803)
Co. Wexford family, a son of Martha Gorman of Co. Meath. 1823 married Mary Anne Kirwan of
Killala. (BurkeLG: 589, Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
RICKETTS,
Admiral Sir Cornwallis (1803-1885)
A son of Sir Tristram Robert *Ricketts.
(Boase 2&3, Marshall 8,
O’Byrne)
RICKETTS, Vice-Admiral Sir Tristram Robert (d.1842)
1802 married Rebecca Gumbleton of Co. Waterford. (Marshall 3, NC:
7452; O’Byrne as a footnote to his son
Sir Cornwallis *Ricketts)
ROBERTS,
Captain John Walter (1792-1845)
English-born nephew of Vice-Admiral Sir John *Gore. (Marshall 5, O’Byrne)
ROBERTS,
Lieutenant Richard (d.1841)
Co. Cork family, a son of Mary Anne Neville of Co. Clare. 1838 married Jane Johnson of Co. Cork. (BurkeLG: 594) [see also William FitzWilliam *Wentworth]
ROBERTS,
Captain Sir Samuel (1787-1848)
Born Co. Waterford. 1818 married
Miss Roberts, a cousin. (Marshall 11,
O’Byrne)
ROBERTS,
Captain Thomas (b.1779)
A brother of Captain Sir Samuel *Roberts. 1804 married Catherine Hackett of Co.
Tipperary. (Marshall 7, O’Byrne)
ROBINSON,
Admiral Hercules (1789-1864)
Born Dublin to a Co. Longford father and Elizabeth Langrishe of Co.
Kilkenny. 1822 married Frances
Elizabeth Wood of Co. Westmeath. (Boase 3, Crone, DNB, Marshall 12, TR)
ROCHFORT,
Captain Robert (b.1789)
Co. Westmeath family, a son of Henrietta Hill of Co. Carlow. (Marshall
8, O’Byrne)
ROCHFORT-HUME,
Captain William (d.1847)
Co. Westmeath family, a cousin of Captain Robert *Rochfort. (BurkeLG: 601, Marshall 5, O’Byrne)
RODNEY, Captain Hon. John (1765-1847)
1784 married (1) Catherine, a daughter of the Earl of Westmeath. (O’Byrne)
[see also Sir Charles Edmund *Nugent]
ROOS, ROSSE
or ROS, Commander Hon. Frederick
Fitzgerald de (b.1804)
A son of Lord Henry Fitzgerald and grandson of the Duke of
Leinster. (Marshall 8) [see also Alexander *Ellice, Charles
*Fitzgerald, Robert Lewis *Fitzgerald, Thomas *Foley, Lord *Lecale and George
Francis *Lyon]
ROSS,
Captain Sir Thomas (1797-1874)
Co. Cork family, a son of Miss Attridge of Co. Cork. 1835 married Anna Maria French of
Dublin. (Boase 3, Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
ROSE,
Captain Jonas (1759-1820)
Co. Limerick family, a son of Elizabeth Pratt of Co. Cork. (BurkeLG: 605)
ROWAN,
Commander Edward
Co. Antrim family, a son of Eliza Willsdon of Co. Down. (BurkeLG: 609, O’Byrne)
ROWAN also
see
+ROWLEY,
Admiral Bartholomew Samuel (d.1811)
A cousin of Sir Josias *Rowley and
brother of Sir Charles
*Rowley. (DNB, NC 22:452 & 26:439,
O’Byrne)
+ROWLEY,
Lieutenant Burton (d.1822)
A son of Admiral Sir Charles
*Rowley. (O’Byrne)
ROWLEY,
Admiral Sir Charles (1770-1845)
Old Co. Leitrim family, a grandson of Arabella Dawson of Co. Derry and
brother-in-law of Admiral Sir Charles *Cotton.
(DNB, Marshall 2, 8, NC
22:452) [see also Sir George *Martin]
ROWLEY,
Vice-Admiral Sir Joshua Ricketts (d.1857)
An English-born cousin of Admiral Sir Charles *Rowley. (Boase
3, Marshall 11, O’Byrne)
ROWLEY,
Admiral Sir Josias (1765-1842)
Old Co. Leitrim family, a son of Letitia Campbell of Co. Leitrim,
grandson of Arabella Dawson of Co. Derry and cousin of Sir Charles *Rowley. (BurkeLG: 609, DNB, IS 14, Marshall 2, Webb;
O’Byrne under Rear-Admiral Samuel Campbell *Rowley) [see also Sir George *Martin]
ROWLEY,
Rear-Admiral Samuel Campbell (1774-1846)
A brother of Sir Josias Rowley. 1805
married (1) Miss Mary Thompson of Co. Cork or Co. Fermanagh; 1830 married (2) Mary Frances Cronyn of Co.
Kilkenny. (BurkeLG: 609, Crone, IS 14,
Marshall 4, NC 14:350, O’Byrne)
RUSSELL, Lord Henry (d.1842; probably a Lieutenant)
1841 married Henrietta Maria, a daughter of Sir Robert *Stopford. (BurkeP: 323)
RUSSELL,
Commander John (dates unknown; a Lieutenant of 1815)
1822 married Sophia Coussmaker, the claimant to the De Clifford barony
of Co. Down. (Marshall 8)
RUSSELL,
Admiral Thomas MacNamara (1743-1824)
Irish-born son of an English father and Irish mother. Married Miss MacNamara of Co. Clare. (Crone, DNB, Marshall 1, NC 17:441)
SADLEIR,
Thomas (rank unknown; b.1796)
Co. Tipperary family. 1825
married Eleanor Elmina Saunders of Co. Wicklow. N.B. Burke suggests his RN
service was quite brief; a Lieutenant Richard Sadleir is given in O’Byrne as
having entered the RN in 1808 but later undertaking missionary work in New
South Wales. (BurkeLG: 617)
St GEORGE,
Lieutenant William Molyneux (1784-1805)
Dublin-born to a Co. Armagh or Kilkenny family. (BurkeP: 1144, BurkeLG: 619, TR)
SARSFIELD,
Lieutenant Dominick (b.1790)
A descendant of General Patrick Sarsfield, titular Earl of Lucan. (O’Byrne; DNB for the general.)
SAUNDERSON,
Lieutenant James (b.1795)
Co. Cavan family. Married Selina
Fox of Co. Longford. (BurkeLG: 629,
O’Byrne)
+SAUNDERSON,
Lieutenant John (1796-1863)
A cousin of Lieutenant James Saunderson.
(O’Byrne)
SAURIN,
Admiral Edward (1791-1878)
A son of the Belfast-born lawyer and politician William Saurin and Mary,
the widow of Sir Richard Cox, a sister of Lord James *O’Bryen. (Marshall 12, O’Byrne; BBA, DNB for the
father)
SAVAGE,
Captain Roger Hall (a Captain of 1806; also used surname Nugent)
Co. Down family. (BurkeLG: 516)
SAVAGE,
Lieutenant William Henry (d.1847)
Irish family, a son of Christian
Welstead of Co. Cork. (O’Byrne)
Schaw,
Commander Frederick David (1781-1850)
A son of Miss Baldwin, suggested to be an Irish lady. (O’Byrne)
Schomberg,
Captain Sir Alexander (1720-1804)
English-born, but resident in Ireland 1771-1804 as Captain of HMS Dorset, the Lord Lieutenant’s official
yacht. (Charnock 6, DNB; Marshall 4
under his son, Captain Sir Charles Marsh *Schomberg, NC 11:344)
SCHOMBERG, Admiral Alexander Wilmot (1774-1850)
Irish-born son of Sir Alexander *Schomberg. Married (1) Catherine Anna Stepney of King’s
Co. (DNB, Marshall 6, NC 11:87, O’Byrne)
SCHOMBERG,
Captain Sir Charles Marsh (1779-1835)
Born Dublin, a son of Sir Alexander *Schomberg. (DNB, Marshall 4)
SCHOMBERG, Captain Isaac (1753-1813)
A cousin of Alexander Wilmot *Schomberg.
1793 married Amelia Brodrick of Stradbally, Co. Waterford. (DNB, NC
29:175)
SEAVER,
Lieutenant Charles (RN 1811)
Co. Armagh family. (O’Byrne)
SENIOR, Lieutenant James (RN 1808)
Married Margaret Palmer of Co.
Mayo. (O’Byrne)
+SEYMOUR,
Commander Edward (1804-1837)
A son of Rear-Admiral Sir Michael
*Seymour. (BurkeP: 1176, O’Byrne)
Seymour,
Vice-Admiral Lord Hugh (1759-1801; used the surname Conway before 1794)
An English-born close cousin of the Irish Seymours. Married Anne Horatia, daughter of 2nd
Earl Waldegrave. (BBA, DNB, NC 2: 357, 6:435, 462, Ralfe 2;
O’Byrne under his son Sir George Francis *Seymour)
Seymour,
Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Francis (1787-1870)
Son of Lord Hugh *Seymour. (Boase 3, DNB, Marshall 8:450, 9:157,
O’Byrne)
SEYMOUR,
Lieutenant John Crossley (1793-1884)
Queen’s Co. family, a son of Catherine Wright of Co. Limerick and cousin
of Admiral Sir Michael *Seymour. (BurkeLG:
635, O’Byrne)
SEYMOUR,
Rear-Admiral Sir Michael (1768-1834)
Born either Dublin or Limerick, a son of Griselda Hobart of Co.
Cork. (BBA:Taylor, BurkeP: 1176, Crone,
DNB, Marshall 3, NC 21:89, Ralfe 4; O’Byrne under Admiral Sir Michael
*Seymour) [see also William *Fletcher
and Orlando *Gunning]
SEYMOUR,
Admiral Sir Michael (1802-1887)
A son of Rear-Admiral Sir Michael *Seymour. (BurkeP: 1176, Boase 3, DNB, Marshall 5, O’Byrne)
SEYMOUR,
Lieutenant Michael Cassan (RN 1807)
A brother of John Crossley *Seymour and cousin of Admiral Sir Michael
*Seymour. (O’Byrne)
+SEYMOUR,
Lieutenant Richard (d.1806)
A brother of Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour. (IS 5, Marshall 3, NC 15)
+SEYMOUR,
Captain Stephen (d.1796)
The uncle of John Crossley *Seymour.
(O’Byrne)
SHEPPARD,
Lieutenant Ponsonby (dates unknown; a Lieutenant of 1814)
Co. Tipperary family, a son of Susannah Bull of Co. Waterford. (BurkeLG: 636)
+SHULDHAM,
Midshipman Henry George (d.1804: see Clowes, Vol.5, p.83)
A brother of Commander Molyneux
*Shuldham. (BurkeLG: 635, O’Byrne)
+SHULDHAM,
Lieutenant John George Evelyn (dates unknown; a Lieutenant of 1797)
A brother of Commander Molyneux
*Shuldham. (BurkeLG: 635, O’Byrne)
SHULDHAM,
Admiral Molyneux, Baron Shuldham (1717-1798)
A son of an Ossory parson and Elizabeth Molyneux of Co. Longford. (BBA:Nauticus, BurkeLG: 635, Charnock 5, DNB,
NC 1:88, 23:443)
SHULDHAM,
Commander Molyneux (d.1866)
Co. Cork / Co. Limerick family. (BurkeLG: 635, O’Byrne)
SIMEON, Captain Charles (d.1858)
1821 married Miss Frances Woore of Co. Donegal. (Marshall 5, O’Byrne)
SINCLAIR, Admiral Sir John Gordon, Bart. (1790-1863)
1812 married Ann, a daughter of Admiral Hon. Michael de *Courcy. (O’Byrne)
Singleton,
Captain Robert (1777-1810)
Cos. Dublin and Meath family. I
have been unable to find any other details of this officer. (BurkeLG: 639)
SKINNER,
Commander Arthur MacGregor (b.1799)
Belfast family. (Marshall
8, O’Byrne)
+SKINNER,
Commander John (d.1832)
The uncle of Arthur MacGregor
*Skinner. (O’Byrne)
SLADE,
Captain Sir Adolphus (1802-1877; also held rank of Vice-Admiral in Turkish
navy)
A son of Anna Eliza Dawson of Co. Armagh. (Boase
3, DNB, O’Byrne)
SLEIGH, Lieutenant John (1796-1848)
1818 married Miss Swayne of Co.
Cork. (O’Byrne)
SMITH, Admiral Sir Henry (1803-1887)
1844 married Anna Costigan of
Dublin. (Boase 3, Marshall 6,
O’Byrne)
SMYTH,
Captain Francis (1801/03-1879)
Co. Westmeath family, a son of Abigail Hamilton of Belfast. 1835 married Dorothea Ireland of Co.
Roscommon. (BurkeLG: 649, O’Byrne)
SOMERVILLE,
Commander George Field (RN 1797)
The son of Philip Horatio Townsend *Somerville. (O’Byrne)
SOMERVILLE,
?Captain Philip Horatio Townsend (?d.1816/17)
Burke gives ‘Admiral’ P.H.T. Somerville as of a Co. Cork family; NC and
Syrett & DiNardo refer only to a ‘Captain Philip Somerville’. (BurkeLG: 653, NC 37:176)
SPRATT,
Commander James (1771-1853)
Born Co. Dublin. (Boase 3, Crone,
DNB, O’Byrne, TR, Webb)
STACKPOLE or STACKPOOLE, Commander Michael
(d.1847)
Co. Clare family, a son of Jane Lysaght of Co. Clare. 1829 married Charlotte Purdon of Co.
Clare. (BurkeLG: 655, Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
STACKPOLE or STACKPOOLE, Captain Hassard (d.1814)
Co. Clare family, a cousin of Michael *Stackpole. Irish Sea Fencible service, 1804. (BurkeLG: 655, BBA:Ryan, IS 14, NC 30:512, 32:309)
STEWART,
Hon. Lieutenant Alexander John (d.1800)
A son of the Earl of Londonderry.
The officer is not named in Burke or DNB, who only refer to several
deceased offspring. (BurkeP: 824, NC 4:528; DNB for the father, Robert Stewart, 1st
Marquis of Londonderry)
Stewart,
Captain Hugh Robert (dates unknown)
Cos. Tyrone and Wexford family. I
can find no other trace of this officer.
(BurkeP: 1238)
STODDART,
Captain John (RN 1797)
Of an Irish family. (Marshall 5, O’Byrne)
STOPFORD,
Captain Edward (1784-1837)
Co. Wexford family, a son of Letitia Blacker of Co. Armagh and cousin of
Sir Robert *Stopford. (BurkeP: 322,
Marshall 10)
STOPFORD,
Admiral Hon. Sir Montague (1798-1864)
A son of the 3rd Earl
of Courtown, a nephew of Sir Robert *Stopford.
(Boase 3, Marshall 5, O’Byrne)
[see also Stewart *Blacker, James Stopford *Ram, William Alexander *Ram
and the Hon. Philip *Stopford]
STOPFORD,
Lieutenant Hon. Philip (1743-1793)
A son of the 1st Earl of Courtown, Co. Wexford, and Elizabeth
Smyth, a daughter of the Bishop of Down and Conor; an uncle of Sir Robert
*Stopford. (BurkeP: 323) [see also Stewart *Blacker, James Stopford
*Ram, William Alexander *Ram and Sir Montague *Stopford]
STOPFORD,
Captain Richard Henry (b.1803)
A nephew of Sir Robert
Stopford. (BurkeP: 323, O’Byrne)
STOPFORD,
Admiral Hon. Sir Robert (1768-1847)
A son of the 2nd Earl
of Courtown, Co. Wexford. (BurkeP: 323,
Crone, DNB, Marshall 1, O’Byrne, Ralfe 3)
[see also Stewart *Blacker, Edward Wallis *Hoare, Lord Henry *Russell,
James Stopford *Ram, William Alexander *Ram, Sir Montague *Stopford and the
Hon. Philip *Stopford]
STOPFORD,
Lieutenant or Commander Thomas (d.1824)
A brother of Edward *Stopford. (BurkeP:
322)
STRANGE, Lieutenant Thomas (RN 1806)
Married Eliza Taylor of Co.
Kerry. (O’Byrne)
Stuart, Captain John James (identity uncertain)
The O’Byrne biography of Sir Charles *Sullivan mentions that his uncle
was the father-in-law of “the late Captain John Jas. Stuart, RN”. Syrett & DiNardo do not list any officer
of this exact name: a John Stuart, a Captain of 1803, died in 1811; a James
Stuart, a Trafalgar veteran and Captain of 1813, died in 1838.
STUART,
Commander Thomas (RN 1811)
Married Lucy Bland of Co.
Kerry. (O’Byrne)
STUDDERT,
Admiral John Fitzgerald (1790-1867)
Co. Clare family, a son of Anna Fitzgerald, herself a descendant of Earl
of Kildare. 1830 married Anne Welsh of
Co. Limerick. His maternal relatives
were Robert *O’Brien and Sir John *Colpoys.
(Boase 6, Marshall 6, O’Byrne)
STYLE,
Commander Thomas (d.1820)
English-born with strong family links to Co. Donegal. (BurkeP: 1255)
STYLE,
Captain William (1785-1868)
A brother of Thomas *Style.
(BurkeP: 1255, Marshall 7, O’Byrne)
SULLIVAN,
Admiral Sir Charles (1789-1862)
Son of the Irish writer and traveller, Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan. (Boase
3, Marshall 11, O’Byrne; BBA, DNB
for the father).
SUTTON, Admiral Sir John (d.1825)
1797 married Frances, a sister of Vice-Admiral Hon. Sir Henry
*Hotham. (Marshall 1,2 addenda, Ralfe 2)
TALBOT,
Admiral Sir John (1769?-1851)
Co. Dublin family, a son of Margaret O’Reilly - Lady Malahide of
Malahide - of Co. Westmeath. (BBA:Ward, Boase 3, BurkeP: 1275, Crone, DNB,
Marshall 2, O’Byrne)
TALBOT,
?Midshipman Laurence (d.1813)
Co. Wexford family, a son of Mary O”Toole of Co. Wexford. (BurkeLG: 682, possibly NC 30:522)
+TAYLOUR,
Lieutenant Clotworthy, Lord Langford (1763-1826; used wife’s surname of Rowley
for a time before being created Lord Langford in his own right in 1800)
Son of Thomas Taylour, Marquis of Headfort, of Co. Meath. Married Frances Rowley, the heiress of Lord
Langford. (BBA under the Taylour father)
THOMOND,
Marquis of , see O’BRYEN, Lord James
Thompson,
Captain Lennox (d.1875)
Irish Sea Fencible service, 1804.
(IS 14)
TIGHE,
Midshipman William Stearne (1793-1806)
Co. Westmeath family, a son of Catherine Morgan of Co. Sligo. (BurkeLG: 693)
TISDALL,
Rear-Admiral Archibald (1786-1854)
Co. Meath family, a son of Juliana Blennerhasset of Co. Kerry. (BurkeLG: 695, Marshall 12, O’Byrne)
TRAVERS, Rear-Admiral Sir Eaton Stannard (1782-1858)
Born Co. Cork, a son of Mehetabel Colthurst of Co. Cork. (BBA:Ward, Boase 3, Crone, DNB, Marshall 6,
O’Byrne)
+TRAVERS,
?Lieutenant John (d. before 1832)
A brother of Sir Eaton Stannard *Travers. (Marshall 6, O’Byrne)
TRENCH,
Rear-Admiral Hon. William le Poer [or Power] (1771-1846)
Born Co. Galway into the family of the Earls of Clancarty. 1837 married (2) Margaret Downing of Co.
Londonderry. (BurkeP: 271, Marshall 4,
O’Byrne) [see also William Power *Cobbe]
TROLLOPE, Rear-Admiral George Barne (d.1850)
1813 married Barbara Goble of Co. Cork.
(DNB, Marshall 12, O’Byrne)
Troubridge,
Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas (1758-1807)
London-born but, according to one source, to an Irish father. Also related, though perhaps only by
descendants’ marriage, to the Irish Stubbs family. [N.B. Kennedy 1951 at
pp.79-80 comments on Troubridge’s Irish parentage, temperament and accent, but
all these observations are omitted from his 1975 book, itself a revised edition
of the earlier work.] (BBA: many entries, BurkeLG: 673, DNB, Kennedy 1951, NC 23:1)
TUCKEY,
Commander James Hingston (1776-1816)
Co. Cork family, a son of Elizabeth Kingston of Dunoughmore [?Dunnamore,
Co. Tyrone]. (BBA:Ryan, Crone, DNB, NC
40:165, 245, Webb)
TUITE,
Lieutenant Sir Henry (1742-1805)
Co. Westmeath family, a son of Mary Morgan of Co. Sligo. 1784 married Elizabeth Cobbe of Co. Dublin. (BurkeP: 1309)
TULLOH, Commander William Izod (RN 1801)
1812 married (1) Mary Reynett of Waterford; 1830 married (2) Elizabeth Morris of
Waterford. (O’Byrne)
TURNOUR,
Commander Hon. Arthur Richard (1787-1853)
A son of the 2nd Earl of Winterton of Co. Galway. (BurkeP: 1403, Marshall 7, O’Byrne; DNB under
Sir Edward Turnor, sic) [see also George William *Rabett]
TURNOUR,
Lieutenant Hon. Gerard (1765-1824)
A son of the 1st Earl of Winterton of Co. Galway. (BurkeP: 1402)
TURNOUR,
Lieutenant Hon. Henry (1769-1805)
A brother of Hon. Gerard *Turnour.
(BurkeP: 1402, NC 14:262)
USSHER,
Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas (1779-1848)
Co. Wicklow family. (BurkeLG:
718, BBA:Taylor, Crone, DNB, Marshall 9, O’Byrne)
VANSITTART,
Vice-Admiral Henry (d.1843)
Married (1) Mary Charity, a sister of Lieutenant William *Pennefather.
(BBA:Morgan, DNB, Marshall 3; O’Byrne under William *Pennefather and Commander
Nicholas Vansittart) [see also Thomas
*Evans]
VAUGHAN, Captain Henry (d.1833)
Married a sister of James *Katon.
(Marshall 4)
Vereker,
Midshipman Charles, Viscount Gort (1768-1842)
Co. Limerick family. Entered RN
1782 but soon left to pursue a career in the Army and, later, politics. 1789 married (1) Mrs Jane Stamer, née
Westropp, of Co. Limerick; married (2)
Elizabeth Palliser of Co. Tipperary.
(BBA:several entries, DNB, Webb)
[see also John Read *Bindon]
VERNON,
Lieutenant Francis Venables (1765-1795 or 96)
Co. Dublin family. (BurkeLG: 723)
Waldegrave,
Lieutenant Hon. (d.1809)
A son of Admiral William *Waldegrave, Lord Radstock. (NC 21:176; N.B. not listed in Syrett &
DiNardo and perhaps a mistaken death notice for Captain Hon. William, below)
Waldegrave,
Vice-Admiral Hon. George Granville, Lord Radstock (1786-1857)
A London-born son of Admiral William *Waldegrave, Lord Radstock. (Boase
3 under Radstock, BurkeP: 1086, DNB, Marshall 8,9 under Radstock, O’Byrne
under Radstock)
Waldegrave,
Admiral William, Lord Radstock (1753?-1825)
An Englishman who, given an Irish barony in 1800, took up residence in
Queen’s Co. (BurkeP: 1086, DNB, Marshall 1,2 under Radstock, NC 10:265, Ralfe 2 under Radstock)
Waldegrave,
Captain Hon. William (b.1796)
A son of Admiral William *Waldegrave, Lord Radstock. (BurkeP: 1086, Marshall 6)
WALDRON,
?Midshipman Francis (d. c.1800)
Co. Leitrim family, a son of Mary Kelly of Co. Westmeath. (BurkeLG: 733)
WALKER,
Commander George (RN 1796)
Co. Cork family. 1817 married
Catherine Mansergh of Co. Cork.
(BurkeLG: 457)
WALLER,
?Midshipman Joscelyn (dates unknown)
Co. Tipperary family. (BurkeP:
1337)
WALLER,
Lieutenant Richard Maunsell (dates unknown)
Co. Tipperary family. (BurkeLG:
735, 736)
WARE,
Lieutenant Charles Beamish (b.1792)
Co. Cork family, a son of Mary
Beamish of Co. Cork. (O’Byrne)
WARREN,
Commander John Talbot (1792-1861)
Born Dublin. (Marshall
8, O’Byrne)
Watson,
Captain Joshua Rowley (d.1818)
Irish Sea Fencible service, 1804.
(IS 14)
WEAVER,
Commander William (1795-1864)
Born Dublin. (O’Byrne, TR)
Weld,
Commander Daniel (RN 1793)
Irish Sea Fencible service, 1804.
(IS 14, Marshall 8, O’Byrne)
Weld,
Midshipman Matthew (dates unknown)
Co. Carlow family, a son of Elizabeth Kane of Co. Monaghan. I have been unable to find any other details
of this officer. (BurkeLG: 752)
Wellesley-Pole, Lieutenant William, Lord
Maryborough and Earl of Mornington (1763-1845)
Son of Garrett Wellesley, Earl of Morningon, and Anne Hill-Trevor,
daughter of Viscount Dungannon; thus a
brother of the Duke of Wellington.
Served briefly in RN - leaving
before 1793 - before assuming a political career. 1784 married Katherine Elizabeth, a daughter
of Hon. John *Forbes. (BBA: many
entries, BurkeP: 1361, DNB) [see also
Sir Chichester *Fortescue]
WELLS, Captain William (d.1826)
1816 married Lady Elizabeth
Proby, a daughter of the Earl of Carysfort and half sister of Admiral Hon.
Granville Leveson *Proby. (Marshall 10,
NC 35:175; O’Byrne under Admiral Proby)
WENTWORTH, Lieutenant William FitzWilliam (RN 1805)
1816 married Annie Eliza Roberts of Co. Cork, the sister of Richard
*Roberts. (BurkeLG: 594, O’Byrne)
WESTENRA,
?Midshipman John (dates unknown)
Co. Monaghan family, a son of Lady Hester Lambert, herself a daughter of
the Earl of Cavan. (BurkeP: 1128)
WESTROPP,
Captain Amos Freeman (1782-1844)
Co. Cork family. 1822 married Catherine Kenny of Kilfenora. (BurkeLG:
758, Marshall 12, TR)
Westropp,
Lieutenant Ralph (dates unknown)
Co. Limerick family, a son of Frances Minchin of Co. Tipperary. I have been unable to find any other details
of this officer. (BurkeLG: 759)
WESTROPP-ODELL,
Lieutenant John (dates unknown)
Co. Limerick family, a son of Sarah Westropp of Co. Limerick. Syrett & DiNardo note that a Lieutenant
John Odell was struck off the list in 1801.
(BurkeLG: 526)
Wetherall, Captain Frederick Augustus (1788-1856)
Married Mary Hamilton, perhaps of
Co. Meath. (Marshall 5, O’Byrne)
WHITSHED,
Midshipman James Bentinck Hawkins (d.1813)
A son of Sir James Hawkins *Whitshed.
(NC 31:176, 239; also under his father in Marshall 1, O’Byrne, Ralfe 3)
WHITSHED,
Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Hawkins
(1762-1849) [formerly Hawkins,
James]
Born Co. Louth. Irish Sea
Fencible service, 1804. (DNB, Marshall
1, NC 22:353, O’Byrne, Ralfe 3)
WHYTE,
Captain Edward (d.1837)
Co. Wexford family, the father of Henry and William *Whyte. (BurkeLG: 771, Marshall 7)
WHYTE,
?Midshipman Henry (dates unknown)
A brother of Edward *Whyte.
(BurkeLG: 771)
WHYTE,
Commander Nicholas Charles (1783-1845)
A brother of Edward *Whyte. 1825
married Mary Louisa Segrave of Co. Dublin.
(BurkeLG: 771)
WHYTE,
?Midshipman William (dates unknown)
A son of Edward *Whyte. (BurkeLG:
771)
William IV,
King (1765-1837)
Formerly known as Admiral of the Fleet and, later, Lord High Admiral Prince
William, Duke of Clarence. Earl of
Munster from 1789 until his accession to the throne in 1830. Many children by the Irish belle and actress, Mrs Dorothea Jordan,
née variously as Bland, Francis or Phillips. (BBA:many entries, DNB, Marshall
1,2 under Clarence, Ralfe 1 under Clarence)
[also see Lord Adolphus *FitzClarence and Lord John *Hallyburton]
WILLIAMS,
Lieutenant Augustus Aldborough Lloyd (b.1790)
A son of Martha Louisa Sanders of
Co. Wicklow. (O’Byrne)
WILSON, Rear-Admiral
Alexander (d.1834)
A resident of Wexford. (Marshall
3; O’Byrne under his son Lieutenant James Henry Richard Wilson) [see also William *Wilson]
Wilson,
Lieutenant William (dates unknown; a Lieutenant of 1802)
Irish Sea Fencible service, 1804.
N.B. this may be an error:
Rear-Admiral Alexander *Wilson is said in O’Byrne to have held a Sea
Fencible appointment, a post more often held by a Post Captain than a recently
appointed Lieutenant. (IS 14)
+WINKWORTH,
Captain Grosvenor (d.1802)
An uncle of Samuel *Allen.
(O’Byrne)
WINLACK,
Lieutenant George Byron (dates unknown; a Lieutenant of 1806)
Born Co. Wexford. (TR)
WOLESELEY or WOLSELEY, Admiral William (1756-1842)
From the Irish branch of old Staffordshire family, a son of Miss Warren
of Kilkenny. 1795 married Jane Moore /
Morre / Muir of Co. Down. Irish Sea
Fencible service, 1804. (DNB, IS 14,
Marshall 1)
WRIGHT,
Commander John Wesley (1769-1805)
Born Co. Cork to an English family.
(DNB, NC 14, 15, 18, 30, 34-36 [several entries in each volume])
WYNDHAM,
Captain George, Earl of Egremont
(1785-1845)
A son of Frances Mary Harford, a daughter of Lord Baltimore. (Marshall 11, O’Byrne [under Egremont]; DNB
for the Calvert barons of Baltimore, Co. Longford)
Yorke,
Admiral Sir Joseph Sydney (1768-1831)
1815 married (2) Urania Annie Paulet, the English-born dowager
Marchioness of Clanricarde. (DNB,
Marshall 2, NC 29:440, Ralfe 3)
Young,
Alexander (rank unknown; d.1810)
Co. Armagh family, a son of Anne McClintock of Co. Donegal. Said to be “an officer RN” but I can find no
other details. (BurkeP: 1418)
YOUNG,
Commander John Thomas (1782-1848)
American-born of Belfast origins
(O’Byrne)
Bank, David and
Anthony Esposito British
Biographical Archive (London: K.G. Saur, 1984).
A four-volume index to 170,000 entries in a
microfiche cumulation of 324 English-language biographical reference works
published between 1601 and 1929.
The following works, listed in full below, were
accessed solely from
BBA:
Britten, Brydges, Morgan, NBD (New Biographical Dictionary),
Nauticus, Pratt, Ryan, Taylor, Ward, Welford.
BBA: see Bank
above
Boase, F.
Modern English Biography
(6 vols; Truro: privately printed, 1892-1921).
Boase is also available via BBA.
Boylan, Henry
A Dictionary of Irish Biography (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1988).
Britten, J. and G.S.
Boulger A Biographical Index of deceased
British and Irish Botanists (London, 1893).
Brydges, Sir S.E. A
Biographical Peerage of the Empire of Great Britain (4 vols; London, 1808-1817)
Burke, Sir Bernard A
Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland (London: Harrison, 1912). Abbreviated in my text to BurkeLG.
Burke, Sir Bernard A
Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage .... (56th
edition; London: Harrison, 1894).
Abbreviated in my text to BurkeP.
Census of Ireland for
1851: General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns, Parishes and
Baronies of Ireland (Dublin: HMSO, 1861).
Charnock, John Biographia
Navalis (6 vols; London:
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Times to the Present (7
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Crone, John S. A
Concise Dictionary of Irish Biography (London: Longmans, Green, 1928).
DNB: see Stephen
below
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printed: Surrey, 1989) [N.B. also indexes biographical memoirs found in NC]
The Irish Sword
The Journal of the Military
History Society of
a) Volume 4 (1959-60)
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“Irish Seamen in the Naval Warfare of 1793-1815" (pp.40-42).
Notes in reply by Blackall, Sir
Henry (pp.138-9), Munday, J.
(p.203)
b) Volume 5 (1961-62)
de Courcy Ireland, J.
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c) Volume 6 (1963-64)
de Courcy Ireland, J.
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de Courcy Ireland, J.
“Some Naval Notes” (pp.292-93).
d) Volume 14 (1980-81)
Kerrigan, Paul M.
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Kennedy, Ludovic Nelson’s
Band of Brothers (London: Odhams, 1951).
Kennedy, Ludovic Nelson
and his Captains (London:
Collins, 1975)
Lavery, Brian Nelson’s
Navy: the Ships, Men and Organisation, 1793-1815 (London: Conway, 1990 revised edition)
Lavery, Brian Shipboard
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Mackenzie, Robert Holden
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(London: Ridgway, 1788-9).
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wars from their commencement in 1793 to their conclusion in 1801 and from their
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the biographical part, to the present time (2nd edition;
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every living officer in Her Majesty’s navy, from the rank of admiral of the
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O’Byrne is also available via BBA. The author worked on a 2nd
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Shaw A.G.L. Australian
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Stephen, Sir Leslie and Sir Sidney Lee Dictionary
of National Biography (22 vols & supplements; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1937-38
reprint of 1885-1901 edition).
The 2-volume Concise DNB (1953 edition) is useful not only as an index to the main work but also
for its giving separate entries for many minor characters whose details are
subsumed under a single main entry in DNB
itself.
Syrett, David and R.L.
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the Royal Navy, 1660-1815
(London: Navy Records Society, 1994).
Taylor, W.B.S. History
of the University of Dublin ... with
biographical notices of many eminent men educated therein (London: Cadell, 1845).
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Ward, T.H. Men
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during the reign of Queen Victoria (London, 1885).
Webb, Alfred
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[1] Although the overall claim has undoubted merit for at least the remainder of the 19th century, the war of 1812-1815 against the United States contained many deeply embarrassing tactical defeats for the RN: see, e.g., Clowes’ The Royal Navy, Volume 6..
[2] Strictly speaking only Lieutenants and above were ‘commissioned officers’. However I have also included some 1st Class Volunteers and Midshipmen - in effect, officers-in-training - where I have been able to find details.
[3] In the case of a few officers whose birth date and /or first entry into the RN is unrecorded, I have made the working assumption that no-one born after 1805 could have served before 1815. At the time young men typically entered the profession at around 11 - 13 years of age, then needing to have at least 6 years sea-service before they could sit for their commission as Lieutenant at the minimum age of 19. For further details Lavery’s Nelson’s Navy, pp. 88ff.
[4] Lewis 1960 and 1965 has extensive discussions on the strengths and limitations of the chief secondary sources of Marshall and O’Byrne. He also has a number of useful statistical tables on the national and class composition of the Navy derived from those same sources. From these, he estimates that about 12% of those relatively few members of the officer class who revealed their origins were Irish. However, in contrasting the proportion of Irishmen overall who became naval officers rather unfavourably with that of their peers in Scotland and England, Lewis appears to neglect the religious barriers to many Irishmen taking the King’s commission.
[5] Where the ladies are not given as Irish, I have passed them by in silence. However, the sources do often give their place of birth or residence. During the course of the research, so many officers who had married Irish ladies later turned out to be of Irish origins themselves that I have thought it right to include even marriages that took place long after 1815. The men of these matches may perhaps be found to have pre-existing, close Irish links; although, of course, sailors are rovers by definition.
[6] These lists also contain names that one would swear must be Irish, even if that fact cannot be confirmed from the other sources. These men have been excluded from the present list.
[7] The Admiral of the Fleet was usually simply the senior living flag officer in the service, seniority being based purely on the date at which an officer had first been made a Post Captain. However in 1811 Prince William was given the title doubly ‘out of turn’, having in 1786 been promoted Rear Admiral almost 25 years ahead of schedule and even on his final elevation still being only the 3rd most senior Admiral of the Red, behind Samuel Pitchford Cornish and the Earl of St. Vincent.
[10] Far more detailed information is available for ordinary seamen and warrant officers, whose birthplace and date were usually recorded in the Muster Book of any ship they served in. However, this primary material remains organised in the Admiralty archives by ship and, as Lavery 1998 notes, there have been very few systematic attempts to collate this data by individual, personal name.
[13] The forthcoming multi-volume Irish Biographical Dictionary from Cambridge University Press is eagerly awaited.
[14] The peerage issue is complex and, indeed, somewhat contentious. A very few officers who were rewarded for military or political services with a ‘junior’ Irish peerage but who had no other significant contact with the land or its families have been excluded from this list. Most of these few were soon ‘promoted’ to British or United Kingdom honours. Such as these are, they are usually recorded in Syrett & DiNardo’s reference list.