Royal Naval Biography/Killwick, Edward
EDWARD KILLWICK, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant in 1782; and commanded the Sardine sloop, on the Mediterranean station, in 1796. From Mar. 1798 until the peace of Amiens, he held an appointment in the Suffolk district of Sea-Fencibles. In the years 1806 and 1807, he commanded the Howe store-ship, and was successively employed at the Cape of Good Hope and in South America. In the summer of 1809, we find him appointed to the Princess, receiving ship at Liverpool; and about a year afterwards, the following paragraph appeared in the Naval Chronicle:
“On Friday and Saturday, May 11th and 12th” (1810) “a court-martial was held on board the Salvador-del-Mundo, in Hamoaze, for the trial of Lieutenant William Archbold, late of the Princess; that officer having requested that he might have a public opportunity of vindicating his character from the odium thrown upon it by Captain Killwick. The Court, after having examined Captain Killwick and many of his officers, and duly considered their evidence, agreed, that the conduct of Lieutenant Archbold had been most officer-like and correct during the whole of the time he had served in the Princess, and did therefore most fully acquit him.”
In consequence, we believe, of this sentence, the Princess was immediately placed under the command of another officer, whose predecessor does not appear to have been again employed afloat. He, however, obtained the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital, in Dec. 1814. His son, Lieutenant John Arthur Killwick, R.N. had the honor of presenting an address to King George IV., from the borough of Southwold, at a levee held on the 23d Feb. 1821.