Frederick Warren
BornMarch 1775 (1775)
DiedMarch 22, 1848(1848-03-22) (aged 72–73)
East Court, Cosham, Portsmouth
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchRoyal Navy
Years of service1789–1848
RankVice-Admiral
Commands heldHMS Shark
HMS Fairy
HMS Daedalus
HMS Meleager
HMS Melpomene
HMS Argo
HMS Clarence
HMS Spartiate
Cape of Good Hope Station
Battles/wars
RelationsRichard Warren (father)
Pelham Warren (brtother)
Richard Laird Warren (son)

Frederick Warren (March 1775 – 22 March 1848) was an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and the Gunboat War, rising to the rank of vice-admiral.

Life

Born in March 1775, he was son of Richard Warren the physician, and elder brother of Pelham Warren. He was admitted to Westminster School on 15 January 1783, and entered the navy in March 1789, on board HMS Adamant, flagship of Sir Richard Hughes on the Halifax station.[1]

When the Adamant was paid off in 1792, Warren was sent to HMS Lion with Captain Erasmus Gower, and in her made the voyage to China. Shortly after his return, on 24 October 1794, he was confirmed in the rank of lieutenant and appointed to HMS Prince George. He then served in HMS Jason on the home station, and in HMS Latona off Newfoundland, where he was promoted on 10 August 1797 to command the sloop HMS Shark. In 1800 he commanded HMS Fairy in the West Indies.[1]

On 12 May 1801 Warren was promoted to the rank of captain. On the renewal of the war in 1803 after the Peace of Amiens he had for three years the command of the sea fencibles of the Dundee district; in November 1806 he was appointed to HMS Daedalus, and took her out to the West Indies, where in April 1808 he was moved to HMS Meleager, which was wrecked near Port Royal on 30 July 1808. Warren was acquitted of all blame, and officially complimented on the exertions he had made after the ship struck.[1]

In 1809 Warren commanded HMS Melpomene in the Baltic Sea for a few months, acting for Sir Peter Parker, 2nd Baronet, who was on sick leave.[1][2][3] On the night of 29–30 May he fought a severe action in the Belt with about twenty Danish gunboats. At daybreak the wind freshened and the gunboats retired; but the Melpomene had lost thirty-four men, killed and wounded; both hull and masts had suffered much damage, and her rigging was cut to pieces. She was shortly afterwards sent to England and paid off.[1]

In December 1809 Warren was appointed to the 44-gun HMS Argo, which he commanded on the Lisbon station and in the Mediterranean for nearly three years. In 1814 he commanded the 74-gun HMS Clarence in the English Channel.[1]

Later life

From 1825 to 1830 Warren commanded HMS Spartiate. He was promoted to be rear-admiral on 22 July 1830; from 1831 to 1834 he was commander-in-chief at the Cape of Good Hope Station,[4] and from 1837 to 1841 admiral-superintendent at Plymouth. He was made a vice-admiral on 23 November 1841, and died at Cosham, near Portsmouth, on 22 March 1848.[1]

Family

Warren married, in 1804, Mary, only daughter of Rear-Admiral David Laird of Strathmartine House, Dundee, and had issue. His eldest son, Richard Laird Warren, died an admiral in 1875.[1]

See also

  • O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Warren, Frederic" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Warren, Frederick" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. ↑ Lambert, Andrew. "Parker, Sir Peter". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21330. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ↑ John Marshall (18 November 2010). Royal Naval Biography: Or, Memoirs of the Services of All the Flag-Officers, Superannuated Rear-Admirals, Retired-Captains, Post-Captains, and Commanders. Cambridge University Press. pp. 415–. ISBN 978-1-108-02266-8.
  4. ↑ Hiscocks, Richard (17 January 2016). "Cape Commander-in-Chief 1795-1852". morethannelson.com. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Warren, Frederick". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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