A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ogle, Charles
OGLE, Bart. (Admiral of the Red, 1841. f-p., 31; h-p., 28.)
Sir Charles Ogle, born 24 May, 1775, is eldest son of Sir Chaloner Ogle (who received the honour of Knighthood and was created a Baronet for his professional services, and died Senior Admiral in the British Navy 27 Aug. 1816) by Hester, youngest daughter and co-heir of the Right Rev. John Thomas, Lord Bishop of Winchester. He is brother of Major Thos. Ogle, of the 58th Regt., who was killed in the boats at the landing in Egypt in 1801; brother-in-law of the present Lord Dacre; uncle of Commander Graham Ogle, R.N.; and a relative of Sir Chaloner Ogle, Kt., who died Admiral of the Fleet in 1751. One of his father’s sisters was mother of the present Rear-Admiral De Starck; and another grandmother of the late Earl Grey.
This officer entered the Navy about 1788, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Adventure 44, Capt. John Nicholson Inglefield, with whom, in the same ship and the Medusa 50, he made three trips to the coast of Africa. In Sept. 1791 he became Midshipman of the Alcide 74, Capt. Sir Andrew Snape Douglas, lying at Portsmouth; and he was next toi two years employed, at Halifax and at Home, in the Winchelsea frigate, Capt. Fisher, Edgar 74, Capt. Albemarle Bertie, and Boyne 98, Capt. Wm. Albany Otway. On 14 Nov. 1793 he was made Lieutenant into the Woolwich 44, Capt. Craven, attached to the force in the West Indies; on which station, in the ensuing Dec. and Jan., he successively joined the Vengeance 74, Commodore Chas. Thompson, and, a second time, the Boyne, bearing the flag of Sir John Jervis. During the proximate operations against the French islands he commanded a boat at the capture, under a heavy fire of great guns and musketry, of two schooners lying at anchor, with others, near Maran, Martinique; where he assisted at the taking of Pigeon Island, was intrusted with the command of a party of seamen landed at Point Negro to co-operate with the army, and remained on shore until after the surrender of Fort Bourbon. At the siege of Guadeloupe he again commanded a division of seamen, and greatly distinguished himself by his conduct at the storming of Fort Fleur d’Epée. Towards the close of May, 1794, he was nominated Acting-Captain of the Assurance 44. He was made Commander, 21 May following, into the Avenger sloop; appointed next to the Peterel; and, on 11 Jan. 1796, posted into La Minerve frigate, in the Mediterranean. During the after part of the French revolutionary war he commanded the Meleager and Greyhound, of 32 guns each, and Egyptienne 40, on the Jamaica station, and again in the Mediterranean. While in the Meleager off Cadiz he acquired the approbation of Sir John Jervis by the manner in which he repeated that officer’s signals. In the Greyhound we find him effecting the capture of a Genoese privateer mounting 10 guns, also of a Spanish armed polacre, and of other vessels; and, in the Egyptienne, earning the Turkish gold medal for his services during the Egyptian campaign. His subsequent appointments were – 1 April, 1805, to the Unité frigate, fitting for the Mediterranean – 19 June, 1806, to the Princess Augusta yacht, in which he remained a period of exactly nine years – 26 Aug. 1815, to the Ramillies 74, stationed in the Channel – and, 20 Nov. following and 20 Jan. 1816, to the Malta 84 and Rivoli 74, lying at Plymouth and Portsmouth. The latter ship he left in the following Sept. As Rear-Admiral, a rank he attained 12 Aug. 1819, Sir Chas. Ogle commanded-in-chief on the North American station from 27 April, 1827, until 14 July, 1830. He became a Vice-Admiral 22 July, 1830; rose to the rank of full Admiral 23 Nov. 1841; and since 30 Sept. 1845 has held the chief command at Portsmouth. Sir Chas. Ogle is President of the Royal Naval Benevolent Society.
He married, first, 22 April, 1802, Charlotte Margaret, sister of Henry, third Viscount Gage, and of the present Admiral Sir Wm. Hall Gage, G.C.H., and daughter of the late General Hon. Thos. Gage, Commander-in-Chief of his Majesty’s forces in North America during the first American war. By that lady, who died in 1814, he had issue one son, Chaloner, formerly a Captain in the Army, and two daughters. He married, secondly, 4 Sept. 1820, Letitia, daughter of Sir Wm. Burroughs, Bart., by whom he had issue another son. Being again left a widower 13 Nov. 1832, he married a third time, 10 April, 1834, Mary-Anne, daughter of Geo. Cary, Esq., of Tor Abbey, co. Devon, and relict of John Dalton, jun., Esq., of Thurnham Hall, co. Lancaster, and of Sir John Hayford Thorold, Bart. The last Lady Ogle died 4 Feb. 1842. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.