A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ommanney, Henry Manaton
OMMANNEY. (Rear-Admiral of the Red, 1840. f-p., 19; h-p., 41.)
Henry Manaton Ommanney is a younger brother of Vice-Admiral Sir John Acworth Ommanney, K.C.B.
This officer entered the Navy, in June, 1787, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Colossus 74, Capt. Hugh Cloberry Christian, lying off Woolwich. He removed, in June, 1788, to, the Arrogant 74, commanded in the river Medway by Capt. John Harvey; and after a servitude of four years and ten months on the Newfoundland and Channel stations as Midshipman in the Rose frigate and Childers sloop, Capts. Jacob Waller and Robt. Barlow, and Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ship of Earl Howe, was made Lieutenant, 10 April, 1794, into the Hazard sloop, Capt. John Loring, at Sheerness. During the after part of the French revolutionary war he was employed in the Channel and West Indies, off Lisbon and Cadiz, and in the North Sea and Mediterranean, on board the Aquilon 32, Capt. Robt. Barlow, Raisonnable 64 and Swiftsure 74, flag-ships of the late Sir Wm. Parker, Ville de Paris 110, Commodore Robt. Calder, Blenheim 98, bearing the flag of Sir W. Parker, Alliance, Capt. Geo. Davies, Caesar 80, Capts. Roddam Home and Sir Jas. Saumarez, Waakzamkeidt, Capt. Robt. Hall, and Active frigate, Capt. Chas. Sydney Davers. For his services in the last-mentioned ship during the campaign of 1801 in Egypt, he obtained the Turkish gold medal. Being awarded the rank of Commander 29 April, 1802, he served in that capacity from the following May until March, 1804, in the Falcon sloop, on the Newfoundland station, and from Jan. to Dec. 1805 in the Thames, attached to the force in the North Sea. He acquired Post-rank 22 Jan. 1806; and afterwards, from 17 Sept. 1807, until 20 March, 1808, and from 29 Jan. 1812 until 12 Jan. 1813, commanded the Pallas frigate off L’Orient, and the Vigo 74, flagship of Rear-Admiral Jas. Nicoll Morris, in the Baltic. He was placed on the Retired List of Rear-Admirals 28 June, 1838; and on the Active, 17 Aug. 1840.
Rear-Admiral Ommanney is a Deputy-Lieutenant for co. Banff. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.