A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Sibly, John
SIBLY. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
John Sibly was born 6 Jan. 1797.
This officer entered the Navy, 16 May, 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Tonnant 80, Capt. Sir John Gore, employed off Brest and in Basque Roads. During the last two years of the war he served in the West Indies, part of the time as Midshipman, in the Fawn and Myrmidon of 20 guns each, Capts. Thos. Fellowes and Wm. Paterson. With the latter officer we find him in 1815 cruizing in the Channel in the Eridanus 36, and from 1816 until 1820 stationed in the East Indies in the Minden 74, flagship of Sir Rich. King. While attached to the Eridanus he was severely injured in the left leg; and before sailing, in the Minden, for India, he accompanied the expedition against Algiers, where he served, during the bombardment, in gun-boat No. 23. After he had left the Minden he joined in succession the Lee 20, Capt. Stewart Blacker, Spencer and Bulwark 74’s, Capts. Sir Thos. Lavie and Thos. Dundas, Parthian 10, Capt. Hon. Geo. Barrington, Isis 50, flag-ship of Sir Lawrence Wm. Halsted, and Beaver 10, Capts. John Jas. Onslow, Wm. Geo. Hyndham Whish, and Joseph O’Brien. The Lee, Spencer, Bulwark, and Parthian were employed on the Home station; the Isis and Beaver in the West Indies, whence, soon after his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 4 Oct. 1825, Mr. Sibly invalided. He has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Sibly is Governor of the Brixton House of Correction. He married, 22 Oct. 1831, Caroline Elizabeth, daughter of Lieut. John Derby, R.N. (1795), who died Warden of Portsmouth Dockyard. By that lady, who died 19 July, 1847, he has issue one daughter. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.