A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Shakespear, Arthur
SHAKESPEAR. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 11; h-p., 32.)
Arthur Shakespear was born 18 May, 1788, and died in 1847.
This officer entered the Navy, 14 March, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Leviathan 74, Capt Henry Wm. Bayntun; and in Dec. 1805, after having served in the Mediterranean and fought at Trafalgar, was received as Supernumerary Midshipman on board the Royal William, bearing the flag of Admiral Montagu at Portsmouth. He was next from Jan. 1806 until March, 1808, employed in the North Sea and Channel in the Thetis 38, Capt. Wm. Hall Gage; and from the latter date until Dec. 1810, on the Jamaica station, in the Melpomène 38 and Shark sloop, bearing each the flag of Vice-Admiral Bartholomew Sam. Rowley, Fleur-de-la-Mer schooner, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Huskisson, Franchise 36, Capt. Chas. Dashwood, Avon 18, Capt. Henry Tillieux Fraser, Shark again, Capt. Wm. Barnham Rider, Hebe frigate, Capt. John Fyffe, and, a second time, in the Avon. While with Capt. Rider in the Shark he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by a commission bearing date 3 April, 1810. He had received two sabre-cuts in the head, when in the Thetis, in boarding a French privateer; and in the Avon he had been again severely wounded, in the left arm, in a long and destructive action fought (the Rainbow 22 in company) with the French 40-gun frigate La Nériéde 14 Feb. 1810. His last appointment was, 23 March, 1812, to the Leonidas 38, Capts. Anselm John Griffiths, Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, Geo. Fras. Seymour, and Wm. King, in which ship he served on the Cork station until June, 1815.
He married, 21 July, 1821, Miss Louisa Sage. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.