A Naval Biographical Dictionary/McClintock, William Bunbury
M‘CLINTOCK, M.P., now Bunbury. (Commander, 1835.)
William Bunbury M‘Clintock, born in 1800, is second son of John M‘Clintock, Esq., of Drumcar, co. Louth, Chief Serjeant-at-Arms for Ireland since a period antecedent to the legislative Union, and formerly M.P. for the borough of Athlone, and for co. Louth, by his first wife, Jane, only daughter of the late Wm. Bunbury, Esq., of Moyle, M.P. for co. Carlow, and sister of the late Thos. Bunbury, Esq., also M.P. for that co. The Commander, a first-cousin of Lieut. F. L. M‘Clintock, R.N., is connected with the noble houses of Anglesey and Beaufort, and nearly allied to many others of distinction. One of his half-brothers, Charles, died a Captain in the 74th Regt.; another, George, is at present an officer in the 37th Regt. He assumed the name of Bunbury, in addition to his patronymic, on the death of his uncle, Thos. Bunbury, Esq., M.P., in 1846.
This officer entered the Navy, in July, 1813, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ajax 74, Capts. Robt. Waller Otway and Geo. Mundy, under the former of whom we find him co-operating in the siege of St. Sebastian and contributing, 17 March, 1814, to the capture of L’Alcyon French corvette, of 16 guns and 120 men. Towards the close of the year last mentioned, after he had been for a short time employed on the American coast, he sailed for the Cape of Good Hope in the Niger 38, Capt. Peter Rainier. Quitting that ship in 1815, he next, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 12 Sept. 1822, served on the Home, Mediterranean, Brazilian, and Newfoundland stations, chiefly as Midshipman, in the Pactolus 38 and Severn[1] 40, both commanded by Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, Britomart sloop, Capt. Hon. Geo. Jas. Perceval, Favorite 20, Capt. Hercules Robinson, Grasshopper sloop, Capt. David Buchan, Queen Charlotte 100, bearing the flag of Sir Jas. Hawkins Whitshed, and Apollo and Royal George yachts, each under the orders of Hon. Sir Chas. Paget. His subsequent appointments were – 11 Sept. 1823, to the Tamar 26, Capt. Sir Jas. John Gordon Bremer, fitting in the river Thames – 2 Feb. 1824, to the Samarang 28, Capts. Sir Wm. Saltonstall Wiseman and David Dunn, employed at Halifax and the Cape of Good Hope – 21 Aug. 1828, to the Procris 10, Capts. Chas. Henry Paget and Sir Thos. Sabine Pasley, stationed off Cork and in the Mediterranean – and, 3 June, 1831, again to the Samarang, Capt. C. H. Paget, in which vessel he officiated for three years as First-Lieutenant in South America. He was promoted to the rank of Commander, on being paid off, 9 Feb. 1835, and has since been on half-pay.
In July, 1846, on the death of his uncle. Commander Bunbury was elected M.P. for co. Carlow. He was again returned in 1847. He married, 3 Nov. 1842, Pauline, second daughter of Sir Jas. Matthew Stronge, Bart., of Tynan Abbey, co. Armagh.
- ↑ In the Severn he fought at Algiers.