John Walter Tarleton

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Sir John Walter Tarleton KCB ( November 8, 1811 - September 25, 1880 ) was a British admiral.

Life

John Walter Tarleton joined the Royal Navy in March 1824 . In 1835 he was promoted to lieutenant , in 1846 to commander and in 1852 to captain . He took part in the Second Anglo-Burmese War . In the 1850s he commanded the HMS Eurydice and the HMS Euryalus . In 1868 he was promoted to rear admiral. From June 1871 to May 1872 he was Junior Naval Lord and from May 1872 to December 1874 he was Second Naval Lord . On May 24, 1873 he was inducted into the Order of the Bath as Knight Commander . In the same year he was promoted to vice admiral. In 1879 he retired.

He married in 1861. The marriage had three children, a son and two daughters. John Walter Tarleton was a great-grandson of the merchant, ship owner and mayor John Tarleton , or a grandson of his son Thomas. Among other things, he is a great-nephew of Banastre Tarleton .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Visitation of England and Wales , Volume 19 (College of Arms, 1917)
  2. ^ A b c Charles William Tarleton: The Tarleton family (1900)
  3. ↑ Sir William Laird Clowes, Sir Clements Robert Markham: The Royal Navy: a history from the earliest times to the present (1996)
  4. ↑ Royal Navy Senior Appointments ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 811 kB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gulabin.com
  5. ↑ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England (1971)
  6. ^ The London Gazette , June 17, 1879
  7. ↑ PD Richardson: American Material in the Tarleton Papers (PDF; 92 kB) (1974)
personal data
SURNAME Tarleton, John Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British admiral
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1811
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1880