A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Nash, John William Cornelius
NASH. (Lieutenant, 1826. f-p., 18; h-p., 19.)
John William Cornelius Nash was born 1 Nov. 1802, and died in July, 1846. He was son of the late Capt. Jas. Nash, R.N. (1802), a very distinguished officer; nephew of the late Capt. John Nash, R.N. (1802); and grandson of Mr. Rich. Nash, Purser and Paymaster R.N. (1781), who served in that capacity under Lord St. Vincent. He was the last survivor out of 14 of his family who had been all devoted to the Naval service.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Salvador del Mundo 112, commanded by his father, under whom we find him for six years employed, on the Home and North American stations, in the same ship and in the Saturn 56, Loire 38, Impregnable 98, St. George 100, and Berwick 74. After passing about three years at the Naval College at Portsmouth he became Midshipman, in 1820, of the Spartan 46, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise; and next, of the Seringapatam 46, Capt. Sam. Warren, Isis 50, Capt. Thos. Forrest, Renegade schooner, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Edw. Fiott, and Primrose 18, Capt. John Stoddart, on the Home, Mediterranean, and West India stations. He was confirmed a Lieutenant, 11 Feb. 1826, into the Dartmouth 42, Capt. Henry Dundas, at Jamaica; and he was lastly, between 1827 and 1830, employed at Plymouth in the Ocean 80, Capt. Patrick Campbell, Britannia 120, Capt. Edw. Hawker, and Caledonia 120 – commanding part of the time the Royalist tender of 10 guns.
He married, about 1830, Amelia, daughter of Hugh Stewart, Esq., R.N.