Lord George Paulet
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Lord George Paulet CB (12 August 1803 – 22 November 1879) was an officer of the Royal Navy.
He entered the navy shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars and after some years obtained his own command. He served off the Iberian Peninsula during the Portuguese Liberal Wars and the Spanish First Carlist War, protecting British interests and property. While serving on the Pacific Station he obtained a brief measure of infamy when he occupied the Hawaiian Islands for five months in 1843, in an incident known as the Paulet affair. The occupation was later reversed by his commanding officer. Paulet went on to serve during the Crimean War, commanding a ship during the heavy fighting around the siege of Sevastopol in 1854 and the Battle of Kinburn in 1855. He received a number of awards after the war, and was promoted through the ranks, until his death in 1879 at the rank of full admiral.
Family and early life
George Paulet was born on 12 August 1803, the third son of Charles Ingoldsby Paulet, 13th Marquess of Winchester, and his wife, Anne Andrews.[1][2] He joined the Royal Navy on 6 February 1817 and after several years of service was commissioned a lieutenant on 9 February 1825.[1][2] He was promoted to commander on 28 February 1828, and was given command of HMS Nautilus in March 1830.[1] He was assigned to the Lisbon station, where he spent the rest of the Portuguese Civil War, based in and off the Douro and Tagus rivers.[1][3] Nautilus was later moved to the northern Spanish coast after the outbreak of the First Carlist War.[3] During her time in Portugal Nautilus was visited by Sir Charles Shaw, who remarked on the great respect that the Spanish had for Paulet, and also commented on how his men were 'so comfortably clad, so well fed, so respectful, and so attached to their officers.'[4] Paulet was promoted to post-captain on 18 November 1833. He went to Bilbao on 17 December to render assistance and protect British property, but bad weather delayed his entry to the port.[5] From Bilbao he proceeded to London to deliver despatches, after which he sailed to Portsmouth to pay off Nautilus, on which occasion he gave his officers 'a sumptuous entertainment'.[1][5]
He married Georgina Wood of Surrey, daughter of Major-General Sir George Wood on 11 July 1835.[2] In 1843 took a second wife in Hawaii, Kamamalu-o-Leleihoku, and had a child the same year born Hanakaʻulani-o-Kamamalu. [citation needed]
Paulet affair
Paulet became captain of HMS Carysfort on 28 December 1841, and served on the Pacific Station under Rear-Admiral Richard Darton Thomas.[2] In late 1842,
Paulet destroyed all Hawaiian flags he could find, and raised the British
Crimean War and later life
In June 1845 Paulet was no longer captain of Carysfort. He was appointed to command
Paulet was made a naval
Notes
- ^ a b c d e Marshall. Royal Naval Biography. p. 526.
- ^ a b c d e f "Biography of George Paulet R.N." Retrieved 21 February 2010.
- ^ a b O'Byrne's. O'Byrne's Naval Annual. p. 61.
- ^ Shaw. Personal Memoirs and Correspondence. p. 22.
- ^ a b The United Service Magazine. p. 102.
- ^ "The Charlton Land Claim". state archives centennial collection. state of Hawaii. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
- hdl:10524/266.
- ^ a b "Correspondence relating to the Provisional Cession of the Sandwich Islands to great Britain.—February, 1843". British and foreign state papers, Volume 150, Part 1. Great Britain Foreign Office. 1858. pp. 1023–1029.
- hdl:10524/430.
- ^ James F. B. Marshall (1883). "An unpublished chapter of Hawaiian History". Harper's magazine. Vol. 67. pp. 511–520.
- ^ "A resolution of the Senate of 25 February 1845 in reference to the correspondence between the commander of the East India squadron and foreign powers". First session of the 29th Congress. Congress of the United States of America. 17 February 1846.
- ^ Dorothy Riconda (23 March 1972). "Thomas Square nomination form". National Register of Historic Places. U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
- ^ Blaine Fergerstrom (30 June 2008). "Lā Ho'iho'i Ea / Restoration Day". Hawaii State Office of Hawaiian Affairs.
- Gentleman's Magazine. p. 204.
- ^ a b Kinglake. The Invasion of the Crimea. p. 189.
- ^ Burke. The Annual Register. p. 398.
- ^ The Navy list. p. 150.
References
- Burke, Edmund (2007). The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year. Vol. 96. Longmans, Green.
- The United Service Magazine, Part 1. London: Henry Colburn. 1834.
- The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle. Vol. 6. London: John Henry and James Parker. 1859.
- Kinglake, Alexander William (1868). The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan. Vol. 6. B. Tauchnitz.
- O'Byrne, Robert (1855). O'Byrne's Naval Annual for 1855. Vol. 6. London: Piper, Stephenson, & Spence.
- Shaw, Charles (1837). Personal Memoirs and Correspondence: Comprising a Narrative of the War in Portugal and Spain from 1831 to 1837. Vol. 1. London: Henry Colburn.
External links
- O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). John Murray – via Wikisource. . .