Erasmus Ommanney R.N.
Erasmus Ommanney R.N.
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Erasmus Ommanney R.N. | Explanation |
Seventh son, in a family of eight sons and three daughters, of Sir Francis Molyneux Ommanney (1774?-1840), a naval agent and (1818-1826) MP for Barnstaple |
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Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal |
22 May 1814 | | Born (London) |
27 February 1844 | | Married, firstly, Emily Mary (1818-1857), eldest daughter of Samuel Smith (1787-????), of H.M. Dockyard, Malta |
4 June 1848 | | F.R.S. (Fellow of the Royal Society) |
22 April 1862 | | Married, secondly, Mary (1825-1906), daughter of Thomas Arthur Stone (1796-????) of Curzon Street, London |
13 March 1867 | | C.B. (Companion of the Bath) |
13 August 1877 | | Knighted for his scientific work in the Arctic |
26 June 1902 | | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath) |
21 December 1904 | | Died (St Michael's vicarage, Southsea, Hampshire) |
Entry in O'Byrnes 1849 'Naval Biographical Dictionary' |
Obituary in the Times newspaper |
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Date | Rank |
15 July 1826 | Entered Navy |
10 December 1835 | Lieutenant |
9 October 1840 | Commander |
9 November 1846 | Captain |
12 November 1864 | Rear-Admiral |
14 July 1871 | Vice-Admiral |
1 January 1875 | Retired Vice-Admiral |
1 August 1877 | Retired Admiral |
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Date from | Date to | Service |
8 June 1833 | 10 February 1834 | Midshipman in Undaunted, commanded by Captain Edward Harvey, Cape of Good Hope, Africa and East Indies |
17 March 1834 | 10 December 1835 | Mate in Royal George, commanded by Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence |
28 December 1835 | 26 September 1836 | Lieutenant in Cove, transport, commanded by James Clark Ross, ordered to Baffin's Bay to release a number of whalers caught in the ice |
9 October 1836 | 30 August 1837 | Lieutenant in Pique, commanded by Captain Henry John Rous, Lisbon |
18 October 1837 | 10 October 1840 | Lieutenant in Donegal, commanded by John Drake, flag-lieutenant to his uncle, Sir John Acworth Ommanney, Lisbon and the Mediterranean |
18 September 1841 | 15 November 1844 | Commander in Vesuvius (until paying off at Woolwich), Mediterranean |
1847 | 1848 | Carrying into effect relief measures and the new poor law during the famine in Ireland |
28 February 1850 | 15 October 1851 | Captain in Assistance, in Horatio Thomas Austin's squadron in search of Sir John Franklin . |
4 December 1851 | 3 April 1854 | Deputy controller-general of the coastguard |
4 April 1854 | 2 February 1855 | Captain in Eurydice, White Sea (during the Russian War, together with Miranda, Edmund Moubray Lyons, and Brisk, Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour), then (November 1854) North America and West Indies |
3 February 1855 | 19 May 1856 | Captain in Hawke (from commissioning at Sheerness until paying off at Sheerness), the Baltic, as senior officer in the Gulf of Riga during the Russian War, and then at Falmouth |
23 October 1857 | 2 March 1860 | Captain in Brunswick (until paying off at Plymouth), West Indies (senior officer at Colón when the filibuster William Walker attempted to invade Nicaragua), then (1858) the Channel, and then (1859) the Mediterranean |
25 April 1862 | 31 December 1864 | Captain in Procris, Captain superintendent of Gibraltar dockyard |