A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Amiel, William Eardley
AMIEL. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 18; h-p., 26.)
William Eardley Amiel was born, 5 March, 1792, at Cheltenham.
This officer entered the Navy, 17 Aug. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Romulus, Capt. Woodley Losack, on removing with whom to the Helena 18, he assisted, as Midshipman, at the capture, 5 June, 1805, of the Santa Leocadia, Spanish privateer, of 14 guns and 114 men. Proceeding subsequently to the West Indies in the Prince George 98, Capt. Geo. Losack, he there served, from 1808 to 1810, in the Franchise 36, commanded by Capt. Chas. Dashwood, and while on that station was intrusted with the charge of a boat at the reduction, in Dec. of the former year, of the Fort of Samana, St. Domingo. After a further servitude with Capt. Dashwood in the Pyramus 38, on the Baltic and Mediterranean stations, Mr. Amiel was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 21 March, 1812, in the Illustrious 74, bearing the flag in the East Indies of Sir Samuel Hood. His subsequent appointments afloat were, on his return home in the Bucephalus 32, Capt. Barrington Reynolds – 25 Oct. 1813, as Senior, to the Lightning 18, Capt. Bentinck Cavendish Doyle, under whom he participated in the operations of 1814 on the river Gironde – and, 12 Nov. 1815, to the President 50, Capt. Arch. Duff, which ship he left in Sept. 1816. With the exception of the command, from 5 March, 1832, to 5 March, 1837, of the Semaphore station at Kingston, in Surrey, he has not since been employed.
He married, first, 18 Aug. 1818, Martha, only daughter of T. Moore, Esq., of Park Place, St. James’s, by whom he had, with two daughters, three sons, of whom the eldest is a Lieutenant in H.M. 55th Regiment; and secondly, 11 Oct. 1838, Margaret Anne, third daughter of the Rev. Wm. Morgan, D.D., Rector of Aston Clinton, Bucks, and granddaughter of the late Wm. Minshull, Esq., of Boreton House and Aston Clinton.