Sir

John Ommanney
Born17 October 1773
Westminster, Middlesex, England[1]
Died8 July 1855(1855-07-08) (aged 81)
Havant, Hampshire
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Navy
RankAdmiral
Commands heldHMS Hussar
HMS Robust
HMS Barfleur
Plymouth Command
Battles/warsGreek War of Independence
Oriental Crisis
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Order of the Redeemer

Admiral Sir John Acworth Ommanney KCB (17 October 1773 – 8 July 1855) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth.

HMS Donegal, 74-guns, flying the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir John Ommanney, heading down the Tagus past the Church of Santa-Engracia. James Wilson Carmichael

Ommanney joined the Royal Navy in 1786.[2] Promoted Commander in 1796, he was given command of a brig and arrested a fleet of Swedish merchant ships in the North Sea.[2] Promoted to Post Captain in 1800, he commanded HMS Hussar, HMS Robust and then HMS Barfleur.[2] In 1825 he took command of HMS Albion and took part in the Battle of Navarino in 1827.[2]

He was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Lisbon in 1837 and then Second-in-Command of the Mediterranean Fleet in 1840 during the Oriental Crisis.[3] He was made Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth in 1851.[2] He died on 8 July 1855.[2]

Family

In 1803, he married Frances Ayling; they had four daughters.[2]

See also

  • Northbrook Park, Farnham, Surrey
  • O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Ommanney, John Acworth" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.

References

  1. ↑ 1851 England Census
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 J. K. Laughton, rev. Andrew Lambert, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 "Ommanney, Sir John Acworth (1773–1855)". Retrieved 23 August 2016
  3. ↑ Portsmouth Archived 23 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine The Times, 21 September 1840 p. 6
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