Captain Morris subsequently commanded the Formidable of 98 guns. He received the honorable appointment of a Colonelcy of Royal Marines, July 31, 1810; became a Rear-Admiral, Aug. 1, 1811; and a K.C.B. Jan. 2, 1815. His commission as Vice-Admiral bears date Aug. 12, 1819. During the latter part of the war he held a command in the Baltic fleet.
Sir James Nicoll Morris married, Oct. 25, 1802, Margaretta Sarah, second daughter of the late Thomas Somers Cocks, Esq., Banker, of Charing Cross, niece of the first Lord Somers, and sister of the lady of Vice-Admiral Sir William Hargood, K.C.B.
Residence.– Marlow, Bucks.
SIR THOMAS BYAM MARTIN,
Vice-Admiral of the White; Comptroller of his Majesty’s Navy; Knight Commander of the most honourable Military Order of the Bath; Knight of the Swedish Order of the Sword; a Director of Greenwich Hospital; a Commissioner of the Board of Longitude; and Member of Parliament for Plymouth.
This officer is the third son of the late Sir Henry Martin, Bart. Comptroller of the Navy, M.P. for Southampton, by Eliza Anne, daughter of Harding Parker, of Hilbrook, co. Cork, Esq. and widow of Hayward Gillman, Esq.[1] At the commencement of the war with France in 1793, he was appointed to the command of the Tisiphone sloop, and accompanied the fleet under Lord Hood to the Mediterranean, on which station he was promoted into the Modeste, a French frigate that had been seized at Genoa by Rear-Admiral Gell, for a breach of the neutrality of that port[2]. His post commission bears date Nov. 5, 1793. He subsequently served at
- ↑ Sir Henry Martin was a great-grandson of Colonel John Thomas, who commanded the Barbadoes regiment, and greatly distinguished himself at the capture of St. Christopher’s in 1690, from whom are descended the branches of various families of the nobility and gentry of this realm. Sir Henry was created a Baronet, June 21, 1791; died Aug. 1, 1794, and was succeeded by his eldest son Sir Henry William, the present Baronet.
- ↑ See p. 363.
