A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Shacklock, Edward
SHACKLOCK. (Lieut., 1821. f-p., 12; h-p., 26.)
Edward Shacklock, born in 1791, at Gainsborough, co. Lincoln, is son of the late Israel Shacklock, Esq., author of a planisphere, published in 1815.
This officer (who had entered the merchant-service in 1805, had been captured in 1806 by a French privateer, and had witnessed the operations of 1807 against Copenhagen) was impressed into the Navy at Gibraltar 9 Oct. 1809 (while Second-Mate of the letter-of-marque Mary, from Bahia), and placed in the capacity of A.B. on board the San Juan 74, Capt. John Gourly. In the following month he was rated Midshipman, and awarded the command of a gun-boat carrying 2 heavy guns and 28 seamen and marines, employed in cruizing between Gibraltar, Tarifa, and Cape Trafalgar. He next, 13 Sept. 1810, joined the Rambler, another gun-boat, in which vessel, bearing the broad pendant of Commodores Robt. Hall and Fred. Jennings Thomas, he continued to serve at the defence of Cadiz and in its vicinity until Feb. 1814. Soon after he had removed to her he came into action (when Lord Blayney was taken prisoner) with the fort of Fuengirola, near Malaga; and in Dec. of the same year (1810) he was with a party which stormed and carried a fort at Barbatta, near Trafalgar. On the latter occasion he had the good fortune, by boarding, to capture a French privateer, which he brought out of the river and conducted to Gibraltar. In Feb. 1814, having been, as we have shown, employed for more than four years, a period unprecedented, on gun-boat service, he went back, with Capt. Thomas, to the San Juan, flag-ship at the time of Rear-Admiral Sam. Hood Linzee. On his return to England with the latter in the Eurotas 38, he was received, in July, 1814, on board the Salvador del Mundo, bearing the flag at Plymouth of Vice-Admiral Wm. Domett. After serving for eight months on the coast of North America in the Leonidas 38, Capt. Wm. King, and for ten at Sheerness and Portsmouth in the Namur and Vengeur 74’s, Capts. Geo. M‘Kinley and Thos. Alexander, he sailed, in June, 1816, in the Dee 24, Capt. Sam. Chambers, for Canada, where, from Sept. in that year until June, 1817, he served on Lake Ontario as Acting Pendant-Lieutenant to Sir Robt. Hall, his former Commander, in the Montreal. He then, the establishment being broken up, came home, as Acting Supernumerary-Lieutenant, in the Pactolus 38, Capt. Wm. Hugh Dobbie. On his arrival in July he joined the Queen Charlotte 100, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Thornbrough at Portsmouth; from the following Aug. until March, 1821, he served in the Mediterranean as Admiralty-Midshipman in the Glasgow 50, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland; and on 30 April in the latter year, after he had again served at Portsmouth in the Queen Charlotte, then the flag-ship of Sir Jos. Hawkins Whitshed, and in the Ramillies 74, Capt. Aiskew Paffard Hollis, he was promoted to the rank he now holds. He has since been on half-pay.
He married, first, in Aug. 1825, Jane, daughter of the Rev. John Foster, Rector of Drypoole; and secondly, in June, 1838, Mary, daughter of Wm. Field, Esq., shipowner, of Hull, one of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House. By his former marriage he has issue two children. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.