Chaloner Ogle

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This article is about the English admiral, 1681–1750. For his cousin and brother-in-law, the English admiral, 1726–1816, see Sir Chaloner Ogle, 1st Baronet.

Sir Chaloner Ogle
Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Chaloner Ogle KB (1681 – 11 April 1750) was a Royal Navy officer and politician. After serving as a junior officer during the Nine Years' War, a ship he was commanding was captured by three French ships off Ostend in July 1706 in an action during the War of the Spanish Succession. Ogle was given command of the fourth-rate HMS Swallow and saw action against the pirate fleet of Bartholomew Roberts in the Battle of Cape Lopez in February 1722. The action was to prove a turning point in the war against the pirates and many consider the death of Roberts to mark the end of the Golden Age of Piracy.

In December 1741 Ogle was despatched with a fleet of some 30 ships to support Admiral Edward Vernon in his engagement with Spanish naval forces under Admiral Blas de Lezo off the coast of Colombia during the War of Jenkins' Ear. The attack on Fort San Lazaro was a disaster for the British forces and the Battle of Cartagena de Indias ultimately proved a decisive Spanish victory: 50 ships were lost, badly damaged or abandoned, and 18,000 soldiers and sailors died. Ogle went on to be Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.

Early career

Born to John Ogle, a Newcastle barrister, and Mary (née Braithwaite) Ogle,[1] Chaloner Ogle came from the Kirkley Hall branch of the prominent Northumbrian Ogle family of Northumberland.[2] He joined the Royal Navy as a volunteer in July 1697.[1] He served in the third-rate HMS Yarmouth and then the third-rate HMS Restoration in Autumn 1697 during the Nine Years' War and then served in the fourth-rate HMS Worcester followed by the third-rate HMS Suffolk in 1698.[3] Promoted to lieutenant on 29 April 1702, he joined the third-rate HMS Royal Oak later that month.[3]

Ogle engaging Bartholomew Roberts during the Battle of Cape Lopez

Promoted to

Mediterranean where he took several prizes.[3] He then transferred to the fourth-rate HMS Plymouth and then to the fourth-rate HMS Worcester both in the Baltic Sea.[3]

Ogle was given command of the fourth-rate HMS Swallow in March 1719 and saw action against the pirate fleet of Bartholomew Roberts in the Battle of Cape Lopez in February 1722.[3] Ogle spotted three of Roberts' ships at anchor and initially pretended to flee: the pirate ship Ranger under Captain James Skyrme gave pursuit and was captured by HMS Swallow. Ogle then went after Roberts' flagship Royal Fortune which was anchored at Cape Lopez: Roberts tried to escape but Royal Fortune received a broadside from HMS Swallow as she passed and Roberts was killed in the action.[3] Ogle was appointed a Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath in April 1723, the only British naval officer to be honoured specifically for his actions against pirates.[4] The action was to prove a turning point in the war against the pirates[5] and many consider the death of Roberts to mark the end of the Golden Age of Piracy.[4]

Ogle was given command of the third-rate HMS Burford in the Channel Fleet in 1729 and of third-rate HMS Edinburgh in the Mediterranean in 1732.[3] Promoted to commodore later that year he became Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station with his broad pennant in the fourth-rate HMS Kingston.[3][6]

Senior command

The Battle of Cartagena de Indias at which Ogle led a naval attack on the forts
St Mary's, Twickenham
where Ogle was buried

Promoted to

rear-admiral on 11 July 1739,[7] Ogle became second-in-command in the Mediterranean under Admiral Nicholas Haddock, with his flag in the fourth-rate HMS Augusta later that year, but then transferred to become third-in-command in the Channel under Sir John Norris, still with his flag in HMS Augusta, in 1740[8]

In December 1741 Ogle was despatched with a fleet of some 30 ships to support Admiral

Governor of Jamaica in August 1742; he was tried in court but no judgement was given.[11] Vernon was recalled and Ogle became Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station again.[8][6]

Promoted to

St Mary's, Twickenham.[17] The monument was sculpted by John Michael Rysbrack.[18]

Family

In October 1714, Ogle married Henrietta Isaacson. After the death of his first wife, he married Jane Isabella Ogle (a cousin) in October 1737; there were no children from either marriage.[1]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20605. Retrieved 4 May 2015. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^ Dodds, p. 503
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Heathcote, p. 199
  4. ^ a b Cawthorne p. 135
  5. ^ Cordingly, p. 8
  6. ^ a b Cundall, p. xx
  7. ^ "No. 7822". The London Gazette. 10 July 1739. p. 1.
  8. ^ a b c Heathcote, p. 200
  9. ^ Smollett & Roscoe, p. 606
  10. ^ Coxe, p. 24
  11. ^ "Ogle Tales and Trails". Ogle family. Archived from the original on 26 November 2013. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  12. ^ "No. 8248". The London Gazette. 9 August 1743. p. 4.
  13. ^ "No. 8338". The London Gazette. 19 June 1744. p. 8.
  14. ^ Rayment, Leigh. "Rochester (Kent)". House of Commons. Archived from the original on 19 December 2012. Retrieved 11 November 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  15. ^ "No. 8864". The London Gazette. 4 July 1749. p. 6.
  16. ^ "Gifford Lodge". Twickenham Museum. Archived from the original on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  17. ^ "Sir Chaloner Ogle". Twickenham Museum. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  18. ^ Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis p.338

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