A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Chichester, John Palmer Bruce
CHICHESTER, Bart. (Lieut., 1816. f-p., 10; h-p., 27.)
Sir John Palmer Bruce Chichester is eldest son of the late John Palmer Chichester, Esq., Col. of the Royal Cardigan Rifle Corps, by his second wife, Agnes, eldest daughter of Jas. Hamilton, Esq., of Bangour, N.B. (by Margaret Bruce, sister of the celebrated traveller, Jas. Bruce, Esq., of Kinnaird); and first cousin of Sir Clifford Constable, Bart., as likewise of Sir Chas. Chichester, Col. of the 81st Regiment, K.C.T., K.S.F., &c., a distinguished officer in the service of the Queen of Spain. He was created a Baronet in 1840.
This officer entered the Navy, 7 Feb. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Implacable 74, Capt. Geo. Cockburn, and, attaining soon afterwards the rating of Midshipman, continued to serve, with the same officer, in the Alfred 74, Grampus 50, and Marlborough and Sceptre 74’s, at the defence of Cadiz and on the American station, until Aug. 1813. He then joined the Lacedemonian 38, Capt. Sam. Jackson, and, until the conclusion of the war with the United States, was very arduously employed in blockading the enemy’s ports and rivers, and on one occasion, 5 Oct. 1814, served with the boats and was wounded at the capture of a gun-vessel and four merchantmen.[1] After an attachment of a few months to the Royal Charlotte yacht, Capt. Geo. Scott, lying at Weymouth, and to the Iris 36, receiving-ship in the river Thames, bearing the flag of Sir Home Popham, Mr. Chichester was promoted, 11 March, 1816, to the rank of Lieutenant. He next, from 29 Oct. 1816, until June, 1820, served on board the Helicon 10, and Harlequin 18, Capts. Alex. Barclay Branch and Chas. Christ. Parker, on the Irish station; but since the latter date has been on half-pay.
Sir J. P. B. Chichester, who was lately M.P. for Barnstaple, married Caroline, daughter of Thos. Thistlethwaite, Esq., of Southwick Park, Hants, by whom he has issue. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1815, p. 454.