A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Nowell, William Calmady
NOWELL. (Lieutenant, 1828.)
William Calmady Nowell entered the Navy 5 Feb. 1813; passed his examination in 1820; and obtained his commission 8 Aug. 1828. His appointments have since been – 15 March, 1831, to the Pallas 42, Capts. Manley Hall Dixon and Wm. Walpole, fitting for the West Indies, whence he returned to England and was paid off in 1834 – 13 Oct. 1836, to the Vanguard 80, Capts. Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie and Sir Thos. Fellowes, under whom he was for upwards of three years and a half employed in the Mediterranean – 14 Jan. 1841, to the Powerful 84, Capts. Geo. Mansel and Michael Seymour, on the same station – and, 16 March, 1842, and 15 April, 1844, as Senior-Lieutenant, to the Formidable 84 and Queen 110, commanded, also in the Mediterranean, by Capt. Sir Chas. Sullivan. He was paid off from the Queen in the summer of the latter year; and he has been in command, since 9 Oct. 1847, of the Ardent steam-sloop of 200 horsepower, again on the station last named.
He married, 9 April, 1839, at Malta, Catanna, daughter of the Marquis of Testaferrata.