A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Caulfeild, Edwin Toby
CAULFEILD. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 8; h-p., 33.)
Edwin Toby Caulfeild, born 14 Jan. 1793, is eldest son of the late Wade Toby Caulfeild, Esq., of Raheenduff, Queen’s co., and of Catcombe, co. Wilts, Captain in the 3rd Dragoon Guards, by his second wife, Anne, sister of Sir Jonathan Cope, Bart., of Brewerne; grandson of Col. Wm. Caulfeild, Lieutenant-Governor of Fort George, N.B.; great-grandson of the Hon. Toby Caulfeild, of Clone, co. Kilkenny, third son of William, fifth Baron Charlemont; and cousin of Commander Jas. Caulfeild, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 12 July, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Lavinia 38, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, in which frigate he attained the rating of Midshipman in 1808, and served, until Nov. 1810, in the Channel, off the Western Islands and the coasts of Spain and Portugal, in the expedition against Flushing, and on the Mediterranean station. In Jan. 1811, he joined the Conquestador 74, commanded by the same Captain, and, while in that ship, assisted in her boats at the capture of a French vessel under the batteries of Ile d’Aix, and was ultimately, on 27 Dec. in the same year, taken prisoner in a gallant but unsuccessful attack on an enemy’s flotilla. He regained his liberty at the peace, and obtained his commission 3 March, 1815, but has been ever since on half-pay.
Lieut. Caulfeild married Frances Sally, daughter of the late Eyles Irwin, Esq., of co. Fermanagh, by whom he has issue a son and two daughters.