Charles Fremantle

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Sir Charles Howe Fremantle GCB ( June 1, 1800 - May 25, 1869 in London ) was a British admiral in the Royal Navy .

The Australian city ​​of Fremantle in Western Australia was named after him.

Early life

Charles Fremantle was the son of Vice Admiral Thomas Fremantle and his wife Elizabeth. Charles Fremantle was a close follower of Lord Nelson and the nephew of William Henry Fremantle ; his older brother was Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe . Fremantle was a journalist. He got his middle name Howe because he was born in 1794 on an anniversary of Lord Howe's victory over the French in the naval battle of the 13th Prairial . Fremantle entered the Royal Navy in 1812 .

According to Graeme Henderson, former director of the Western Australian Maritime Museum , Fremantle raped a 15 year old girl in April 1826. This created a scandal and his family bribed the witnesses and turned against justice. In August 1826 he was appointed captain, in 1828 he was given command of the 26-gun frigate HMS Challenger and was ordered to the west coast of Australia.

Career

The HMS Challenger was ordered by the British Admiralty from the Cape of Good Hope on March 20, 1829 to Cockburn Sound , where it anchored on May 2 and landed on Garden Island . A week later he hoisted the British flag at the southern mouth of the Swan River and, on Her Majesty's behalf of King George IV, formally took possession of all areas of what was then New Holland , except that of the British-owned colony of New South Wales ' .

The lieutenant governor James Stirling reached Cockburn Sound on June 2nd with his family and 69 other settlers on board the hired cargo barge Parmelia to build a colony on the Swan River in what is now Western Australia . On June 8th, they met 56 officers and men who had landed with the HMS Sulfur in the military base . On June 17, Stirling read a proxy proclamation in accordance with the proclamation by Charles Fremantle. The landing of the immigrants marked the beginning of the history of Western Australia as a British colony , the later state of Australia.

Fremantle left the Swan River Colony on August 25, 1829 and went to the British Army base of Trincomalee in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka ), where he stayed for several years.

During his stay in Ceylon, he went to various places, including what was then called Kowloon , which he recommended as a British settlement area. The British government agreed, and as a result of the first opium war , Hong Kong was occupied in 1841 and became a crown colony in 1843 .

Fremantle stayed in Ceylon for a number of years and on his way back to England in September 1832 he visited the Swan River Colony for a week and never returned.

In 1843 he was given command of the HMS Inconstant of the British Mediterranean fleet and in 1847 he took over command of the HMS Albion in the Mediterranean . In 1853 he became captain of HMS Juno on the Australia Squadron , a naval association of the Royal Navy .

In 1855 he served as Rear Admiral, a flag officer who oversaw sea ​​transports in the Crimean War from Balaklava , a city that is now in Ukraine .

In July 1858 he was appointed in command of the Channel Squadron , the Canal Fleet, and in 1863 Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth, of the Royal Navy .

Personal

Fremantle married Isabella Wedderburn on October 8, 1836, with whom he had three children:

  • Emily Caroline Alexander (April 14, 1838 - February 10, 1929), who married the Reverend CL Alexander, the rector of Sturton-by-Bridge, Derbyshire.
  • Celia Elizabeth McNeil (8 October 1840 - 15 February 1929), married Canon EA McNeile, Vicar of St Pauls, Princes Park, Liverpool .
  • Louisa Frances Fremantle (February 23, 1843 - March 20, 1909).

Late life

He died in 1869 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery , London .

Web links

  • RT Appleyard, RT, Toby Manford (1979): The Beginning: European Discovery and Early Settlement of Swan River Western Australia , University of Western Australia Press. ISBN 0-85564-146-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h William Loney RN
  2. ↑ Jenny d'Anger: Captain Cad: Fremantle a 'sadistic rapist' . In: Fremantle Herald , August 25, 2007, p. 1. 
  3. ^ A b Australian Bureau of Statistics, Western Australian Office (ed.): The Western Australian Year Book No. 17 . 1979, ISSN  0083-8772 .
personal data
SURNAME Fremantle, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fremantle, Charles Howe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British admiral
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1800
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1869
Place of death London