A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lysaght, Arthur
LYSAGHT. (Rear-Admiral of the White, 1841. f-p., 14; h-p., 38.)
Arthur Lysaght belongs to the family of Lord Lisle.
This officer entered the Navy, 30 June, 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board La Sybille of 48 guns, Capts. Edw. Cooke and Lucius Ferdinand Hardyman, stationed at first in the Channel and afterwards in the East Indies; where, in Jan. 1798, he was Midshipman of that vessel when, in company with the Fox 32, she entered the Spanish harbour of Manilla (notwithstanding that there were lying there three ships of the line and three frigates), and captured seven boats, 200 men, and a large quantity of ammunition and implements of war. In the course of the same month he was present in an action with the enemy’s batteries at Samboangon in the island of Magindanao, whose fire occasioned the two ships a collective loss of 6 killed and 16 wounded; and on the night of 28 Feb. 1799 he contributed to the capture, at the mouth of the Bengal River, of the French frigate La Forte of 52 guns and 370 men, after a deadly action of two hours and a half, in which the enemy had 65 of their number (including the Captain) killed and 80 wounded, and the British, out of 371 men, 5 killed and 17 (among whom was Capt. Cooke mortally) wounded. On the prize being added to the British Navy and placed under the orders of Capt. Hardyman, Mr. Lysaght joined her, in May, 1799, in the capacity of Master’s Mate. He continued in her until she was wrecked, in the Red Sea, about June 1801; and then removed to the Fox 32, Capt. Henry Stuart, whom, in the following Oct. he accompanied, as Acting-Lieutenant, into La Chiffonne 36. Invaliding home in March, 1802, Mr. Lysaght, whose official promotion took place 3 Aug. in that year, was next, 23 March, 1803, and 5 July, 1805, appointed to the Melpomène 38, and Malabar 74, Capts. Robt. Dudley Oliver and Robt. Hall, on the Channel and West India stations. He obtained a second promotal commission 22 Jan. 1806; assumed command, 8 Feb. following of the Goelan sloop, also in the East Indies; acquired Post-rank 25 Sept. in the same year; and was lastly, from 20 May, 1807, until 19 Nov. 1810, employed as Captain of the Jamaica 24, on the Channel, Lisbon, and Newfoundland stations. He was advanced to Flagrank 23 Nov. 1841.
The Rear-Admiral married, first, in 1813, Caroline, daughter of Thos. Cuming, Esq., of Camden Place, Bath; and, that lady dying in 1825, secondly, 22 Aug. 1831, Eliza Dorothy, eldest daughter of the late Henry Percy Pulleine, Esq., of Crake Hall, co. York, by whom he has issue three sons.