Charles Abbot, 2nd Baron Colchester
Charles Abbot, 2nd Baron Colchester PC (March 12, 1798 - October 18, 1867 ) was an admiral in the Royal Navy and a politician of the Conservative Party , who as Baron Colchester between 1829 and 1867 was a member of the House of Lords , 1852 Paymaster General as well as postmaster general from 1858 to 1859. He also served as President of the Royal Geographical Society from 1845 to 1847 .
Life
Abbot was the elder of the two sons of Charles Abbot , who was intermittently a member of the House of Commons between 1795 and 1817 and Speaker of the House of Commons from 1802 to 1817 , and in 1817 as Baron Colchester , of Colchester in the County of Essex, to the hereditary nobility ( Hereditary Peerage) and thus belonged to the House of Lords as a member, as well as his wife Elizabeth Gibbes, daughter of Philip Gibbes, 1st Baronet.
He himself joined the Royal Navy on April 8, 1811 after attending the renowned Westminster School . Abbot initially served under Commander John Nash on board the ship of the line HMS Revenge , the flagship of Rear Admiral Arthur Kaye Legge . On his return to England he was transferred to HMS Warspite in June 1812 , which was under the command of Henry Blackwood . He then completed an education at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth until October 1813 .
After a subsequent use on board various ships, he was transferred to HMS Bacchante in the spring of 1814 , where he served under the command of William Hoste and then Francis Stanfell . With this he sailed to North America , where he took part in the expedition to the Penobscot in September 1814 under the direction of John Coape Sherbrooke and Edward Griffith Colpoys . In December 1815 he was transferred to the frigate HMS Alceste , commanded by Murray Maxwell , on which he accompanied William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst on the Amherst mission named after him to the Empire of China .
After his return to England Abbot completed a three-month training as a naval officer from February 18, 1817 and was promoted to lieutenant at sea by Captain Anthony Maitland September 15, 1817 while serving aboard the HMS Glasgow , an Endymion- class frigate . As such he found between June 22, 1818 and January 27, 1821 various uses on board the HMS Liffey , which was under the command of Henry Duncan .
He then took over his first command on January 27, 1821, over the sloop HMS Racehorse operating in the Mediterranean . Then he was on April 9, 1823 in command of the sloop HMS Columbine , which sank on January 25, 1824 at the island of Sapientza off the southwest coast of the Peloponnese peninsula. On November 30, 1824, he became the commandant of the sloop HMS Rose and held this post until January 26, 1826.
House of Lords, Paymaster General and Postmaster General
After the death of his father, he inherited the title of 2nd Baron Colchester, of Colchester in the County of Essex on May 8, 1829 and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death.
His last position was on October 9, 1829, in command of HMS Volage , which brought Peter I, the deposed Emperor of Brazil, from Brazil to Cherbourg in April 1831 . As the commander of this ship, he took part in the embargo against the Kingdom of the United Netherlands in the wake of the Belgian Revolution in the winter of 1832 , before he was given half pay in January 1833 to devote himself to his political activities.
In 1845 he succeeded Roderick Murchison as President of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) and held this position until he was replaced by William John Hamilton in 1847.
On February 27, 1852, Baron Colchester was appointed Paymaster General (Paymaster General) by Prime Minister Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby , and held this position until December 17, 1852. At the same time, he held the associated position as Vice Minister of Commerce ( Vice-President of the Board of Trade ) and was also appointed a member of the Privy Council (PC) in 1852 . In 1854 he was promoted to rear admiral.
In the second government of the Earl of Derby, Baron Colchester held the post of Postmaster General from March 13, 1858 to June 11, 1859 . After he was promoted to Vice Admiral in 1860 , he was last promoted to Admiral in 1864.
Baron Colchester married Elizabeth Susan Law, the eldest daughter of Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough , who was Lord Chief Justice from 1802 to 1818 , and his wife Anne Towry on February 4, 1836 . From this marriage his only son Reginald Charles Edward Abbot emerged, who inherited the title of 3rd Baron Colchester after his death .
Web links
- Charles Abbot, 2nd Baron Colchester at the Hansard (English)
- Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
- Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
- Charles Abbot, 2nd Baron Colchester of Colchester, on thepeerage.com , accessed August 19, 2015.
- Entry in A Naval Biographical Dictionary , 1849 (online version in Wikisource )
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Charles Abbot |
Baron Colchester 1829–1867 |
Reginald Abbot |
| Edward Stanley |
Paymaster General 1852 |
Edward Stanley |
| George Campbell |
Postmaster General 1858-1859 |
James Bruce |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abbot, Charles, 2nd Baron Colchester |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Abbot, Charles, 2nd Baron Colchester, of Colchester in the County of Essex (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Royal Navy Admiral, Conservative Party politician and peer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1798 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 1867 |