George Stuart

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Lord George Stuart CB (March 1, 1780 - February 19, 1841 in Balls Park , Hertfordshire ) was a British admiral.

origin

He came from an old branch of the Stuarts , which descended from the Scottish King Robert II . He was the seventh son of John Stuart, 4th Earl of Bute and his first wife, the Hon. Charlotte Windsor, daughter of Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor . His father was promoted to Marquess of Bute in 1796 , whereupon William, the younger son of a Marquess, used the courtesy address of Lord . Two of his brothers also went to the Navy, namely Lieutenant Hon. Charles Stuart , who was killed in the sinking of the frigate HMS Leda in 1796 , and Captain Lord William Stuart .

Life

After attending Eton College , he joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman in November 1793 . From 1795 he took part in the second voyage of the schooner HMS Providence under Captain William Robert Broughton , during which they came to the Pacific coast of North America and later to Japan and Macau in search of George Vancouver . After losing the ship off Miyako-jima , Stuart finally returned to Great Britain in 1799 with 29 other sailors on board an East Indiaman. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1800 and commander in 1802 . On March 3, 1804 he became captain and took over the 44-gun frigate HMS Sheerness , which operated in the Indian Ocean. On January 7, 1805, he was not on board his ship when it sank in a severe storm off Trincomalee . As the commander of the frigate HMS Duncan , he brought up a French privateer on April 8, 1806 in the North Sea. In 1807 he took over as captain of the 32-gun frigate HMS l'Aimable , with which he landed another French privateer. In the summer of 1808 he escorted l'Aimable Wellesly's army from Cork to Portugal. On February 3, 1809, after a 28-hour pursuit in the North Sea, he succeeded in boarding the French frigate Iris . In July 1809 he operated as the leader of a small flotilla off the Elbe estuary . A landing party destroyed French coastal batteries near Cuxhaven on July 7th and briefly occupied the city. On July 29, occupied a renewed landing operations Cuxhaven and pushed up Geestendorf ago, making them the black crowd of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm of Brunswick-Oels the way to embarkation on the Weser freely made. Then on August 8th, Stuart's flotilla took over the Duke's troops in the mouth of the Weser, who had fled on boats and small ships from Elsfleth and Brake from the French troops pursuing them. In November 1810, Stuart became the commandant of the frigate HMS Horatio , with which he occupied the Dutch Zierikzee in December 1813 and drove the French forces from the island of Schouwen . During the British-American War he operated in 1814 with the new 58 gunship HMS Newcastle against the USS Constitution and the other over-heavy American frigates, without being able to put one of them into action. In 1815 he was named Companion of the Order of the Bath and later served as the Naval Aide-de-camp of King William IV. In 1837 he was promoted to Rear Admiral of the blue .

Family and offspring

He married on October 7, 1800 Jane Stewart († 1862), a daughter of Major General James Stewart . The couple had several children, including

literature

  • Thomas Stilwell: Stuart, George. In: John Marshall (Ed.): Royal Naval Biography. Volume 2, Part 2, Longman & Co, London 1823, pp. 864-873 ( wikisource ).
  • The Gentleman's Magazine , Issue 169 (1841), p. 652.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Phillips' Ships of the old Navy: Sheerness (44), 1787. Retrieved September 24, 2014 .
  2. ^ John Marshall: Royal naval biography . Longman, London 1833. p. 871
  3. ^ Leonhard von Dresch: Germany in the period of the Rhine Confederation. From the war with Austria in 1809 to the beginning of the liberation war in 1813 (history of Germany since the foundation of the Rhine Confederation). Ulm, 1825. p. 159
  4. ↑ Michael Phillips' Ships of the old Navy: Horatio (44). Retrieved September 24, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Stuart, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stuart, Lord George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British admiral
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1780
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1841
Place of death Balls Park , Hertfordshire