Herbert Sawyer
Herbert Sawyer | |
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Herbert Sawyer (Father) |
Admiral
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Family and early life
Sawyer was born the eldest son of Admiral
Halifax during this time.[1]
Service in the wars
St. Paul's Church (Halifax)
, Nova ScotiaOn the outbreak of the war with
74-gun HMS Saturn. By 1799, he was commander of HMS Russell where he remained until the spring of 1801. He then moved aboard HMS Juste and sailed to the West Indies with Sir Robert Calder's fleet.[1] On Sawyer's return to Britain, he was put in charge of the payment of ships based at Plymouth, a job he held until he was promoted to rear-admiral on 2 October 1807.[1] By early 1810, he was made second-in-command of Portsmouth dockyard and, by the end of the year, was again promoted; this time to the rank of vice-admiral. In 1810 he was appointed to the post of commander-in-chief of the North American Station[1] – his father's old command – which he held during the War of 1812 before relinquishing it in 1813.[1] He then became commander-in-chief of the Cork Station. He became a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on 2 January 1815 and was promoted to Admiral of the White in 1825.[1] He died in Bath, Somerset in 1833.[2]
Notes
References
- "Biography of Sawyer". The New Monthly Magazine, and Literary Journal. (American ed.). 1833.
- Laughton, J. K.; Gwyn, Julian (reviser) (2004). "Sawyer, Herbert (b. in or before 1730, d. 1798)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24755. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource: . Dictionary of National Biography. 1885–1900. — mention of his son this Herbert Sawyer
Further reading
- Marshall, John (1823). . Royal Naval Biography. Vol. 1, part 1. London: Longman and company. p. 337–339.
- ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.