A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Daniell, William
DANIELL, Kt. (Commander, 1826. f-p., 23; h-p., 16.)
Sir William Daniell died 15 Sept. 1845, at Sierra Leone. He was youngest son of the late Ralph Allen Daniell, Esq., of Trelissick, co. Cornwall, M.P. for West Looe, by Ehzabeth Mason, daughter of the Rev. W. Pooley, rector of Ladock; brother of John Daniell, Esq., an officer in the 7th Hussars; and brother-in-law of Lieut. Col. Gossett, R.E., C.B., K.S.F. He received the honour of Knighthood in 1836.
This officer entered the Navy, in March, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Princess Royal 98, Capt. Robt. Carthew Reynolds, attached to the fleet in the Channel; served afterwards for seven years with Capt. John West, as Midshipman, in the Excellent and Sultan 74’s, on the Mediterranean station, where he co-operated for some time with the patriots of Catalonia; passed his examination in April, 1813; and on 16 Sept. following was confirmed to a Lieutenancy in the Crocus sloop, Capt. Arden Adderley. We subsequently find him appointed – 25 March, 1815, and 3 July, 1816, to the Boyne 98, and Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ships of Lord Exmouth, in the latter of which he bore a part in the battle of Algiers – 17 Sept. 1817, to the Impregnable 104, bearing the flag of the same officer at Plymouth – 3 June, 1818, to the Eden 26, Capt. Fras. Erskine Lock, on the East India station – and 17 Dec. 1825, to the Prince Regent 120, flag-ship at the Nore of Sir Robt. Moorsom. He obtained his second commission 22 Nov. 1826; officiated subsequently as an Inspecting Commander in the Coast Guard, from 30 June, 1835, until the summer of 1838; and being appointed, 26 Jan. 1842, to the Ringdove 16, served in that vessel in North America and the West Indies, and on the Coast of Africa, until the period of his decease. Agents – Holmes and Folkhard.