A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stocker, Walter Broad
STOCKER. (Commander, 1847. f-p., 32; h-p., 6.)
Walter Broad Stocker was born 2 Aug. 1795. He is brother of Lieut. Stephen Stocker, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 4 Nov. 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Medusa 32, Capts. Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie and Geo. Bell; under the former of whom he cruized with activity in the Bay of Biscay, assisted at the capture of several privateers, and frequently landed for the purpose of co-operating with the patriots on the north coast of Spain. He was also for some time employed in blockading Cherbourg. Removing, towards the close of 1813, to the Venerable 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Philip Chas. Durham in the West Indies, he was there, in 1815, afforded an opportunity of contributing to the reduction of Guadeloupe. He returned home in the spring of 1816; and on 16 Sept. in that year, having fought as Admiralty-Midshipman of the Prometheus sloop, Capt. Wm. Bateman Dashwood, at the bombardment of Algiers, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. From 14 Jan. 1822, until advanced to his present rank, 1 Jan. 1847, he served in the Coast Guard.
Commander Stocker, who is Senior of 1847, married, 4 June, 1839, Jane, daughter of the late Henry Fowkes, Esq., Deputy Recorder of Shrewsbury.