A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ogle, Thomas
OGLE. (Captain, 1838. f-p., 25; h-p., 13.)
Thomas Ogleentered the Navy 25 Jan. 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Saturn 74, Capt. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, to whom, on removing to the Royal Oak 74, he officiated as Aide-de-Camp during the operations connected with the Walcheren expedition. With the exception of a few weeks passed in the early part of 1812 in the Hannibal 74, also commanded by Lord Beauclerk, he continued to serve with that nobleman and the late Sir Pulteney Malcolm in the Royal Oak until June, 1815. He was often in consequence detached against the enemy on the coast of France, and was constantly employed in a tender from the capture of Washington until the attack on New Orleans. In Sept. 1815, at which period he was serving at Portsmouth on board the Brune troop-ship, Capt. Wm. Stanhope Badcock, he was nominated Admiralty Midshipman of the Cherokee 10, Capt. Wm. Ramage, on the Leith station; and, on 25 July, 1816, while filling the same rank at St. Helena in the Newcastle 50, flag-ship of Sir P. Malcolm, he received an order to act as Lieutenant of the Julia 14, Capt. Jenkin Jones. He was confirmed a Lieutenant 20 Aug. 1817, a few weeks after he had rejoined the Newcastle; and subsequently appointed – in Dec. 1821, to the Active 46, Capts. Andrew King and Hon. Robt. Rodney, engaged on particular service – 18 Oct. 1824, to the Ocean 80, bearing the flag of Lord A. Beauclerk in the Tagus – and, 9 Jan. 1827, to the Spartiate 76, Capt. Fred. Warren, on the same station. Being re-appointed to the last-mentioned ship on the occasion of his promotion to the rank of Commander, 26 May, 1828, he continued in her, as Second-Captain, until 1830. We next find him employed – from 6 Aug. 1831 until Dec. 1834, in the Isis 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Fred. Warren at the Cape of Good Hope – from 21 March, 1836, until April, 1837, in the Cornwallis 74, Capts. Robt. Worgan Geo. Festing and Sir Joshua Ricketts Rowley, on the Lisbon station – and, from 31 Aug. 1837 until June, 1839 (during which period he was advanced, 28 June, 1838, to Post-rank), in the President 52, flagship of Rear-Admiral Chas. Bayne Hodgson Ross in the Pacific. His last appointment was, 11 Oct. 1841, to the Southampton 50, fitting for the flag of Sir Edw. Durnford King, Commander-in-Chief at the Cape of Good Hope. While in that ship, in which he remained until Dec. 1842, he forced the entrance into Port Natal, and, by landing a body of troops, rescued a detachment surrounded at the time by a host of hostile tribes.
Capt. Ogle is a Knight of the Brazilian order of the Southern Cross. He married Mary, eldest daughter of John Garth, Esq., of Preston, Lancashire, by whom he has issue one son and two daughters. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.