A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Schomberg, Herbert
SCHOMBERG. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 22; h-p., 8.)
Herbert Schomberg, born 19 Dec. 1803, is only son of Vice-Admiral A. W. Schomberg, by his first marriage.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 15 Dec. 1817; and embarked, 17 Dec. 1819, as a Volunteer, on board the Phaeton 46, Capts. Wm. Augustus Montagu and Henry Evelyn Pitfield Sturt; in which ship we find him, during a servitude of four years, employed on the coast of North America, in the Channel in attendance upon George IV. and otherwise, and in the West Indies in the suppression of piracy. While on the books, from 17 Jan. 1824 (in the course of which month he passed his examination) until 7 Sept. 1827, of the Jupiter 60, commanded, on the Halifax station, by Capts. David Dunn, Sir Wm. Saltonstall Wiseman, and Wm. Webb, he served at times in the Ganymede tender, Doterel 18, Capt. Wm. Alex. Baillie Hamilton, and Hussar 46, Capt. Edw. Boxer. During the last few weeks of his attachment to the Jupiter he acted as Lieutenant. He was officially promoted 1 1 Sept. 1827; and was subsequently employed – from Feb. 1828 until Sept. 1829, in the Orestes 18, Capt. John Reynolds – from Sept. 1829 until Feb. 1835, in the Britannia 120, flag-ship of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, in the Rapid 10, Capt. Chas. Henry Swinburne, in command of the Ceylon 2, as Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Thos. Briggs, in the Meteor steamer, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Henry Symons, in the Rainbow 28, Capt. Sir John Franklin, again, as before, in the Ceylon, and in the Barham 60, Capt. Hugh Pigot, and, a second time, in the Britannia, Capt. Peter Rainier, all in the Mediterranean – and from Jan. 1836 until promoted to the rank of Commander 8 June, 1841, in the Melville 74, flag-ship on the North America and West India, Cape of Good Hope, and China stations, of Admirals Sir Peter Halkett and Hon. Geo. Elliot. While belonging to the Orestes he was engaged in cruizing against smugglers on the coast of Ireland; in relieving the homeward-bound trade in the Channel, and in blockading Tangier; and in experimentally cruizing under Hon. Sir Charles Paget, H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence, and Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood. He was First-Lieutenant of the Melville when that ship was hove down under very trying circumstances at Chusan; and also at the capture of the Bogue forts. The latter affair procured him the rank he now holds. Since his elevation to it he has been on half-pay.
Commander Schomberg married, 18 April, 1844, Sarah, third daughter of the Rev. Wm. Stevens Bayton, of Westergate House, near Chichester. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.