A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gillmor, Clotworthy
GILLMOR. (Retired Commander, 1845. f-p., 14; h-p., 39.)
Clotworthy Gillmor, born 5 April, 1773, is youngest son of Wm. Gillmor, Esq., who was High Sheriff for co. Sligo in 1789.
This officer entered the Navy, 3 Dec. 1794, as A.B., on board the Ambuscade 32, Capt. Geo. Duff, with whom he served, in the same ship, and in the Glenmore 36, on the North Sea and Irish stations, until promoted to a Lieutenancy, 13 Feb. 1801, in the Serpent 16, Capt. Thos. Roberts. On the 30 Oct. in the latter year he joined for a few months the San Fiorenzo 40, Capt. Chas. Wm. Paterson, and we afterwards find him serving, from 8 April, 1803, to 27 Jan. 1806, on board the Texel 64, Malabar 50, and Belliqueux 64, all commanded by Capt. Hon. Geo. Byng, under whom, in the last-mentioned ship, he assisted at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope. After an attachment of some months in 1807 to the Zealand, flag-ship at the Nore of Vice-Admiral Thos. Wells, Mr. Gillmor joined the Marlborough 74, Capt. Graham Moore; and while in that ship, he escorted the Royal Family of Portugal to the Brazils, and attended the expedition of 1809 to the Walcheren. Being next appointed, 14 July, 1810, to the Melpomene frigate, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, he for some time commanded the Naval Brigade, consisting of 500 men, employed in co-operation with the army under the Duke of Wellington at the lines of Torres Vedras, and materially assisted in battering the town of Santarem, and in destroying all the boats with which General Massena’s army was to have crossed the Tagus. The subject, of this memoir, who has not been employed since the summer of 1811, became a Retired Commander on the Junior List 1 Dec. 1830, and on the Senior 17 Nov. 1845.
He is married, and has issue. His son, the Rev. Clotworthy Gillmor, M.A., is Vicar of Dartford, co. Kent; and his youngest daughter is the wife of Capt. C. H. Thomas, Hon.E.I.Co.’s service.