A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Whish, William George Hyndham
WHISH. (Captain, 1841. f-p., 16; h-p., 23.)
William George Hyndham Whish entered the Navy, 27 June, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the St. George 98, Capt. Edw. Sneyd Clay, successive flag-ship, in the Channel and Baltic, of Rear-Admirals Fras. Pickmore and Elias Harvey. In Feb. 1810 he removed to the Hussar 38, Capt. Alex. Skene, on the Guernsey station; he became Midshipman, in the following summer, of the Nymphe frigate, Capt. E. S. Clay, in the North Sea; and from Jan. 1811 until Sept. 1815, he was employed at the Cape of Good Hope, in the Mediterranean, and again off Guernsey in the Curaçoa 36, Capt. John Tower. In Oct. of the year last mentioned he was rated Master’s Mate of the Mutine sloop, Capt. Jas. Mould; in which vessel he sailed in 1816 with the expedition against Algiers. On the memorable 27 Aug. he was doing duty on board the Invincible battery-ship, Lieut.-Commander Rich. Howell Fleming. He returned to England with Lord Exmouth in the Queen Charlotte 100; was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 16 Sept. 1816; and was appointed next – 9 June, 1818, to the Impregnable 104, bearing the flag of Lord Exmouth at Plymouth – and, 13 July, 1821, and 17 Aug. and 4 Dec. 1824, to the Bustard 10, Capts. Wm. Geo. Martin, Jas. Wigston, Edwin Ludlow Rich, and Rawdon Maclean, Serapis, Capt. Geo. Vernon Jackson, and Dartmouth 42, Capt. Henry Dundas, all in the West Indies. On 11 Nov. 1825, he was promoted to the command, which he retained but for a short period, of the Beaver sloop. His last appointment was, 26 Jan. 1837, to the Gannet 16, on the North America and West India station, whence he returned home and was paid off in the early part of 1838. He attained his present rank 23 Nov. 1841.
Capt. Whish married, 2 June, 1828, Julia, second daughter of the late John Vivian, Esq., of Portland Place, London, and Claverton, co. Somerset, sister-in-law of Capt. Jas. Rattray, R.N.