A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stother, John Meyricke
STOTHER. (Retired Commander, 1846. f-p., 19; h-p., 27.)
John Meyricke Stother was born 14 Sept. 1785. This officer entered the Navy, 13 July, 1801, as L.M., on board the Dreadnought 98, Capt. Jas. Vashon, stationed off Cadiz, whence he returned to England and was paid off in July, 1802. In the following Nov. he became Midshipman (a rating he had attained in Sept. 1801) of the Caroline 36, Capt. Benj. Wm. Page, fitting for the East Indies; during his passage whither he contributed to the capture, among other vessels, of the De Haasje Dutch brig-of-war. Six months after he had left the Caroline he was received, in June, 1804, on board the Ruby 64, Capts. Chas. Rowley, Corbet Jas. d’Auvergne, Temple Hardy, and John Draper; in which ship he served off the Texel, accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen, and continued employed, off Lisbon and Cadiz, until April, 1808. In June of the latter year he removed as Master’s Mate to the Ardent 64, Capt. Jas. Giles Vashon, on the Leith station; where, on 9 Nov. in the same year, he was confirmed a Lieutenant (rather more than three months after he had been ordered to act as such) in the Raven sloop, Capt. Fras. John Nott. He served next, from March, 1810, until Aug. 1815, off the Texel, in the Baltic, off Flushing, and in the Downs and Channel, in the Resolution 74, Capt. Temple Hardy, Conquestador 74, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, Redpole 10, Capts. Colin Macdonatd and Alex. Fraser, and York 74, Capt. Alex. Wilmot Schomberg; and from 19 Feb. 1826 until July, 1831, he was employed in the Coast Guard. He accepted his present rank 27 Jan. 1846.
Commander Stother is married. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.