Captain William Elliot, Esq.

1782 -

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  Name	William Elliot
  Title	Captain
  Suffix	Esq.
  Birth	15 Dec 1782	Cawsand, Maker-with-Rame, Cornwall
  Gender	Male
  Interesting fact	A Companion of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, and Knight Commander of the Royal Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword. [Post-Captain of 1810.]
  Married	1806 (23 years)  [8]
  Married	Abt 1820 (37 years)  [8, 9]
  Name	Abt 22 Nov 1823 (40 years)  [6]
  	Insignia of a Portuguese Knight Commander of the Tower and Sword, set in diamonds, presented to the subject of this memoir, who has since received his own sovereign’s most gracious permission to accept and wear the same
  Occupation	21 Feb 1795 (12 years) - entered the naval service, Feb. 21, 1795, with no better prospect than that of ultimately becoming a purser... [1]
  	Before 27 Jan 1806 (23 years) - [Vessel] the Rattler, sloop mounting 24 guns  - gallant rescue of merchant-brig Success, belonging to Poole; possibly on route to Newfoundland [2]
  	Oct 1806 (23 years) - Monte Video, Montevideo, Uruguay [Battle of Montevideo (1807)]  - In October 1806, the Daphne accompanied the naval and military reinforcements sent to Buenos Ayres; and Lieutenant Elliot commanded a party of her seamen at the storming of Monte Video, Feb. 3, 1807[7] [3]
  	Aug 1809 (26 years) - Guadaloupe  - In August following. Lieutenant Elliot was appointed acting Commander of the Pultusk sloop of war, in which vessel be made several captures off the north end of Guadaloupe
  	Mar 1810 (27 years) - On his return home (March 1810), Captain Elliot received an official letter from the Secretary of the Admiralty, acquainting him, that in consequence of his meritorious services in the West Indies, the Lords Commissioners had been pleased to order a minute to be made for his promotion to post rank, to take place at the expiration of twelve months, from the date of his confirmation as a Commander [4]
  	16 Oct 1810 (27 years) - ...in December following, on his arrival from Newfoundland, he had the gratification of receiving a commission, dated, according to promise, Oct. 16, in the same year. [4]
  	Jun 1812 (29 years) - in December following ...Captain Elliot was obliged through ill-health, occasioned by his wounds and repeated change of climate, to remain on shore till June 1812 [5]
  	1815 (32 years) - Captain Elliot was nominated a C.B. in 1815 [5]
  	Nov 1818 (35 years) - Portsmouth, Hampshire  - The Scamander was paid off at Portsmouth, in November 1818.
  	22 Nov 1823 (40 years) - Captain Elliot’s last appointment was, Nov. 22, 1823, to the Lively of 46 guns, in which frigate he escorted Don Miguel, then an exile, from Lisbon to Brest: on his return to the Tagus, he was honored with the company of King John, the Infantas of Portugal, and the Ministers of State, all of whom had been invited to a grand fête given on board the Lively, and which his Portuguese Majesty declared to be the most splendid entertainment he ever witnessed [6]
  	2 Jan 1825 (42 years) - Plymouth, Devon  [7]
  Person ID	I12379	AHP
  Last Modified	23 Dec 2024

  
  

  Family	Lucretia d of Rev. John of Newfoundland Harries,   b. Abt 1780   d. Abt 1818, Barbados (Age 38 years)
  Marriage	1806
  Age at Marriage	He : ~ 23 years - She : ~ 26 years.
  Family ID	F3522	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Dec 2024

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 15 Dec 1782 - Cawsand, Maker-with-Rame, Cornwall  Occupation - In October 1806, the Daphne accompanied the naval and military reinforcements sent to Buenos Ayres; and Lieutenant Elliot commanded a party of her seamen at the storming of Monte Video, Feb. 3, 1807[7] - Oct 1806 (23 years) - Monte Video, Montevideo, Uruguay [Battle of Montevideo (1807)]  Occupation - In August following. Lieutenant Elliot was appointed acting Commander of the Pultusk sloop of war, in which vessel be made several captures off the north end of Guadaloupe - Aug 1809 (26 years) - Guadaloupe   = Link to Google Earth
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  [S55] Wikisource, Wikisource, (Wikisource) (Reliability: 2). entered the naval service, Feb. 21, 1795, with no better prospect than that of ultimately becoming a purser; his only professional friend being Mr. P. Ellery, captain’s clerk of the Irresistible 74, commanded by the late Admiral John Leigh Douglas, who allowed him to join that ship as an assistant to his amanuensis[2]. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Royal_Naval_Biography/Elliot,_William [S55] Wikisource, Wikisource, (Wikisource), Before 27 Jan 1806 (Reliability: 2). etter addressed to Dr. Hawes, the Treasurer of the Royal Humane Society:– “Poole January 27, 1806. “Sir,– I beg leave to recommend to the notice of the Royal Humane Society, Lieutenant William Elliot, for rescuing me and my crew from the wreck of the merchant brig Success, who, though intreated not to hazard his life, still persisted in the attempt. Permit me to say, that I think Lieutenant Elliot not unworthy of your notice, and by laying the particulars before the R.H.S. you will oblige, &c. (Signed)“J. G. Robinson.” https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Royal_Naval_Biography/Elliot,_William [S55] Wikisource, Wikisource, (Wikisource), Oct 1806 (Reliability: 2). In October 1806, the Daphne accompanied the naval and military reinforcements sent to Buenos Ayres; and Lieutenant Elliot commanded a party of her seamen at the storming of Monte Video, Feb. 3, 1807[7] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Royal_Naval_Biography/Elliot,_William [S55] Wikisource, Wikisource, (Wikisource), Oct 1806 (Reliability: 2). On his return home (March 1810), Captain Elliot received an official letter from the Secretary of the Admiralty, acquainting him, that in consequence of his meritorious services in the West Indies, the Lords Commissioners had been pleased to order a minute to be made for his promotion to post rank, to take place at the expiration of twelve months, from the date of his confirmation as a Commander; and in December following, on his arrival from Newfoundland, he had the gratification of receiving a commission, dated, according to promise, Oct. 16, in the same year. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Royal_Naval_Biography/Elliot,_William [S55] Wikisource, Wikisource, (Wikisource), Jun 1812 (Reliability: 2). in December following, on his arrival from Newfoundland, he had the gratification of receiving a commission, dated, according to promise, Oct. 16, in the same year. From the above period. Captain Elliot was obliged through ill-health, occasioned by his wounds and repeated change of climate, to remain on shore till June 1812, when, considering himself sufficiently recovered to serve again afloat, he applied for employment, and was immediately appointed to the Crocodile of 28 guns, in which ship he continued, on the Guernsey and Lisbon stations, till she was ordered to be paid off in June 1815. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Royal_Naval_Biography/Elliot,_William [S55] Wikisource, Wikisource, (Wikisource), 1815 (Reliability: 2). Captain Elliot’s last appointment was, Nov. 22, 1823, to the Lively of 46 guns, in which frigate he escorted Don Miguel, then an exile, from Lisbon to Brest: on his return to the Tagus, he was honored with the company of King John, the Infantas of Portugal, and the Ministers of State, all of whom had been invited to a grand fête given on board the Lively, and which his Portuguese Majesty declared to be the most splendid entertainment he ever witnessed. Among other honors distributed by the happy monarch, to commemorate his restoration to power, was the insignia of a Knight Commander of the Tower and Sword, set in diamonds, presented to the subject of this memoir, who has since received his own sovereign’s most gracious permission to accept and wear the same https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Royal_Naval_Biography/Elliot,_William [S55] Wikisource, Wikisource, (Wikisource), 1815 (Reliability: 2). On the 2d Jan. 1826, the Lively arrived at Plymouth from Vera Cruz, with despatches, announcing the surrender of the castle of St. Juan d’Ulloa to the Mexican forces. On her being paid off, the officers gave a splendid dinner to Captain Elliot, at the Royal Hotel, Devonport, “to evince their sense of his kindness to them, while under his command, and as a mark of their high esteem for the man and for the officer.” https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Royal_Naval_Biography/Elliot,_William [S55] Wikisource, Wikisource, (Wikisource) (Reliability: 2). Captain Elliot married, first, in 1806, Lucretia, daughter of the Rev. John Harries of Newfoundland; and by that lady, who died at Barbadoes, in 1818, he had four children, all of whom are deceased: 2dly, Sarah, daughter of John Parkin, Esq., ship-builder at Frank Quarry, co. Devon, by whom he has issue two sons and one daughter. He has three brothers in the naval service, viz.– John, a Purser; and Thomas and James, Lieutenants. One of his sisters is married to Lieutenant Lapidge, R.N. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Royal_Naval_Biography/Elliot,_William [S55] Wikisource, Wikisource, (Wikisource), 1815 (Reliability: 2). Captain Elliot was nominated a C.B. in 1815: his next appointment appears to have been September 5, in the same year, to the Florida 20; and from her we find him removed April 8, 1816, to the Scamander frigate, fitting for the West Indies https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Royal_Naval_Biography/Elliot,_William