A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Sadler, Benjamin Peyton
SADLER. (Lieut., 1818. f-p., 14; h-p., 22.)
Benjamin Peyton Sadler entered the Navy, 1 July, 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Stork 18, Capts. Geo. Le Geyt and Robt. Lisle Coulson, employed on the Irish station, where he became Midshipman, in June, 1813, of the Fortunée 36, Capt. Wm. Goate. He next, from Jan. 1814 until April, 1815, served, on the coast of North America, in the Saturn 56, Capt. Jas. Nash, Endymion frigate, Capt. Henry Hope (to whose memoir refer for an account of the capture of the U.S. ship President), and Saturn again, Capt. Thos. Brown. After he had been for about three years attached, at Portsmouth, in the East Indies, and a second time at Portsmouth, to the Prince 98, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Thornbrough, Horatio 38, Capt. Wm. Henry Dillon, and Queen Charlotte 100, also the flag-ship of Sir E. Thornbrough, he was promoted, 25 May, 1818, to the rank of Lieutenant. His last appointments were, 16 Sept. 1818 and 22 March, 182.3, to the Cydnus 20, Capt. Chas. Sam. White, and Harlequin 18, Capts. John Weeks and Jas. Scott, in which vessels he was employed, for periods of about three years each, on the Irish and Jamaica stations. He has not been afloat since 1826.
He married, 25 Feb. 1830, Catharine Barnard, youngest daughter of the late W. Skinner, Esq.