A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Sainthill, George Augustus
SAINTHILL. (Captain, 1838. f-p., 18; h-p., 19.)
George Augustus Sainthill died in 1847.
This officer entered the Navy, 3 Oct. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Endymion 40, Capt. Sir Wm. Bolton, stationed on the coast of Ireland. In April, 1812, seven months after he had attained the rating of Midshipman, he removed to the Iris 36, Capt. Hood Hanway Christian, with whom he continued employed on the north coast of Spain and on the coast of Brazil until Dec. 1814. He next, in June, 1815, joined the Rota 38, Capt. John Pasco, on the Lisbon station; and after having been for rather more than two years employed in the Downs in the Ganymede 20 and Severn 40, both commanded by Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, sailed, towards the close of 1817, for the West Indies in the Sybille 44; of which ship, bearing the flag of Sir Home Popham, he was created a Lieutenant 20 Feb. 1819. His next appointments were – 25 June, 1819, for five months, to the Parthian 10, Capt. Wilson Braddyll Bigland, on the Jamaica station – 27 June, 1822, to the Superb 78, Capts. Adam Mackenzie and Sir Thos. Staines, with whom he served at Plymouth, in the AVest Indies, and off Lisbon, until paid off, 19 Dec. 1825 – and 25 June, 1827, to the Isis 50, Capt. Sir T. Staines, fitting for the Mediterranean, where he remained until advanced to the rank of Commander, 22 July, 1830. He was afterwards, from 22 Aug. 1833 until paid off, in the summer of 1834, and from 9 Feb. 1837 until posted, 28 June, 1838, employed as Second-Captain in the Donegal 78 and Queen Charlotte 104, both commanded by Capt. Arthur Fanshawe, the latter as flag-ship of Sir Robt. Stopford in the Mediterranean. In the Donegal he escorted the Infante Don Carlos of Spain from Portugal to this country.