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A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Shuttleworth, Peter

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1941957A Naval Biographical Dictionary — Shuttleworth, PeterWilliam Richard O'Byrne

SHUTTLEWORTH. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 31.)

Peter Shuttleworth entered the Navy, 14 Sept. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Malta 80, Capts. Edw. Buller and Wm. Shield, employed in the Channel and also in the Mediterranean, where, in Aug. 1808, he removed as Midshipman (nearly 12 months after he had attained that rating) to the Montagu 74, Capts. Rich. Hussey Moubray and John Halliday. From May, 1811, until presented, in Oct. 1815, with a commission bearing date 21 Feb. in that year, he served off Cherbourg, Flushing, and Calais, on the north coast of Spain, and in North America and the West Indies, in the Egmont 74, Capt. Joseph Bingham, Insolent 14, Capt. Edw. Brazier, Fox 32, Capts. Wm. Paterson and John Knill Kinsman, Anaconda, Capt. Geo. Augustus Westphal, and Fox again, Capt. Frank Gore Willock. He has not been since afloat.

Lieut. Shuttleworth has been for some years Emigration Agent at Sligo, where he married, in 1836, Alicia, youngest daughter of Chas. Martin, Esq. Agent – Frederick Dufaur.