James Francis Ballard Wainwright R.N.
James Francis Ballard Wainwright R.N.
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| James Francis Ballard Wainwright R.N. | Explanation |
| Youngest son of Captain John Wainwright (died 1819) |
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| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal |
| 26 April 1820 | | Born (Fareham, Hampshire. England) |
| 1850 | | Married Francis Isabella (1819-1916), daughter of Sir Francis Augustus Collier R.N. (1785-1849) |
| 23 April 1872 | | Died (Southsea, Hampshire, England) |
| Entry in O'Byrnes 1849 'Naval Biographical Dictionary' |
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| Date | Rank |
| 10 October 1832 | Entered Navy |
| 22 December 1841 | Lieutenant |
| 21 December 1849 | Commander |
| 2 November 1853 | Captain |
| 26 July 1869 | Rear-Admiral |
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| Date from | Date to | Service |
| 18 January 1840 | 12 May 1840 | Mate in Rodney, commanded by Captain Robert Maunsell, Mediterranean |
| 29 June 1840 | 23 December 1841 | Mate in Excellent, commanded by Captain Thomas Hastings, gunnery ship, Portsmouth |
| 7 March 1842 | 30 April 1846 | Lieutenant in Winchester, commanded by Captain Charles Eden, Cape of Good Hope |
| 20 May 1846 | 2 December 1848 | Lieutenant in Constance, commanded by Captain Baldwin Wake Walker then Captain George William Conway Courtenay, Pacific |
| 4 April 1849 | 25 May 1850 | Lieutenant in Hastings, commanded by Captain James William Morgan, flagship of Rear-Admiral Francis Augustus Collier, East Indies |
| 19 February 1851 | 13 March 1852 | Agent for mails |
| 19 March 1852 | 21 January 1854 | Commander (2ic) in Winchester, commanded by Granville Gower Loch, flagship of Rear-Admiral Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew on the East Indies and China station |
| 22 January 1854 | 24 September 1854 | Captain in Winchester |
| 28 April 1857 | 18 July 1861 | Captain in Leopard, West Indies, and temporarily assisting Agamemnon laying the Atlantic cable (initiated 16 August 1858, but stopped working only a couple of weeks later), then flagship of Rear-Admiral Stephen Lushington, south-east coast of America and West Indies |
| 17 January 1862 | 16 June 1862 | Captain in Shannon (from commissioning at Portsmouth), Channel squadron |
| 17 June 1862 | 24 September 1864 | Captain in Black Prince, Channel squadron (second in command) |
| 25 September 1864 | 17 September 1869 | Captain in Terror, guard ship, Bermuda |