A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Williams, Thomas (a)
WILLIAMS. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 18; h-p., 35.)
Thomas Williams died about the commencement of 1849.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1794, as Midshipman, on board the Minotaur 74, Capt. Thos. Louis, in which ship he cruized in the Channel, fought at the battle of the Nile, and continued employed as Master’s Mate in the Mediterranean until there nominated Acting-Lieutenant, 29 April, 1800, of the Florentina, Capt. Broughton. In June, 1802, he returned to England. He served during the late war on the Mediterranean, West India, Baltic, and Home stations in the Britannia 100, Capt. (afterwards Rear-Admiral) the Earl of Northesk. Leopard, Ambuscade, and Canopus, bearing each the flag of Sir Thos. Louis, Hercule 74 and Veteran 64, flag-ships of Vice-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres, Éclair sloop, Capt. Quash, Brunswick 74, Capt. Thos. Graves, Mars, Superb, and Milford 74’s, all flag-ships of Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats, Duncan 74, Capt. Robt. Lambert, Ville de Paris 110, bearing the flag of Sir Harry Burrard Neale, and Bombay Castle 74. In the Canopus he was present in the action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806. He served as Flag-Lieutenant on board the Mars from 23 March until 11 June, 1808; and on 27 June, 1814, having been so employed in the Bombay Castle, when she bore the flag for a short period of the Board of Admiralty, he was made Commander into the Derwent sloop, on the Newfoundland station. This was his last appointment. He was placed on half-pay in Nov. 1815.
Commander Williams was a Magistrate for co. Devon. His only daughter Louisa married, 2 Nov. 1846, Geo. Tobin, Esq., of the Queen’s Royals, son of Major-General Tobin, R.A.