Sydney Dacres

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Sir

Sydney Colpoys Dacres
James Richard Dacres
(cousin)

Greenwich Hospital
.

Early career

The first-rate, HMS St Vincent, which Dacres commanded. Painted by Charles Dixon

Dacres was born in 1804, the son of Captain, later Vice-Admiral,

Sir Sidney Smith as his flag captain aboard HMS Pompee during his Mediterranean campaign, and under Captain Sir John Colpoys, while Colpoys was commander of HMS Hannibal and HMS London.[3] His elder brother Sir Richard James Dacres was a field marshal in the British Army and was also awarded the GCB.[1]

Sydney joined the Royal Navy in 1817 at the age of 12, and after serving for ten years, was promoted to lieutenant on 5 May 1827, initially aboard the 46-gun HMS Blonde under Captain Edmund Lyons.[6] On 18 October Lieutenant Dacres was involved in an attack on the Turkish forces at Morea, during the Greek War of Independence. He and other lieutenants from Blonde, working in company with French naval forces, landed guns and helped to build batteries.[7]

Dacres was promoted to commander on 28 August 1834, being appointed to his first command, the paddle

Queen Victoria to accept the award of Officer of the Legion of Honour.[14]

Senior command

The Royal Hospital Haslar where Dacres was Captain-Superintendent

Dacres then moved ashore, becoming Captain-Superintendent of the

Knight Commander of the Bath on 28 March 1865,[19] and promoted to vice-admiral on 17 November 1865, while in command of the Channel Squadron.[20]

Dacres became a

Greenwich Hospital on 2 December that year.[24] He was placed on the retired list on 10 January 1874.[25]

Family and personal life

Dacres married Emma Lambert on 1 October 1840 at St Pancras New Church.[4] She gave birth to a son at Batheaston on 3 December 1845.[26] This was followed by the birth of a daughter on 10 January 1849 at Bath. His daughter Minna Winifred married, as her second husband, Admiral Sir John Ommanney Hopkins.[27][28] Sydney Dacres died on 8 March 1884.[29]

See also

  • O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Dacres, Sidney Colpoys" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.
  • List of British recipients of the Légion d'Honneur for the Crimean War

Notes

  1. ^ a b Foster, Joseph (1883). The peerage, baronetage, and knightage of the British Empire : for 1882. Westminster [London, Eng.]: Nichols and Sons. p. 710. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  2. ^ 1881 England Census
  3. ^ a b Tracy. Who's who in Nelson's Navy. p. 109.
  4. ^ a b Burke (1841). Annual Register. p. 139.
  5. ^ Tracy. Who's who in Nelson's Navy. p. 108.
  6. ^ Eardley-Wilmot. Life of Vice-Admiral Edmund, Lord Lyons. p. 37.
  7. ^ Marshall. Royal Naval Biography. p. 387.
  8. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6997. Retrieved 31 December 2012. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  9. ^ The Gentleman's Magazine. 1847. p. 540.
  10. ^ The Admiralty (1852). THE NEW NAVY LIST. p. 246.
  11. ^ House of Commons. Parliamentary Papers. p. 250.
  12. ^ Lambert. The Crimean War. p. 195.
  13. ^ "No. 21743". The London Gazette. 10 July 1855. p. 2654.
  14. ^ "No. 21996". The London Gazette. 1 May 1857. p. 1573.
  15. ^ The Admiralty (1856). The Navy List. p. 199.
  16. ^ "No. 22157". The London Gazette. 29 June 1858. p. 3090.
  17. ^ 1861 Census of England
  18. ^ The Son of an Old Naval Officer. Captain Coles and the Admiralty. p. 15.
  19. ^ "No. 22952". The London Gazette. 28 March 1865. p. 1731.
  20. ^ "No. 23042". The London Gazette. 24 November 1865. p. 5690.
  21. ^ "No. 23137". The London Gazette. 13 July 1866. p. 3985.
  22. ^ "No. 23603". The London Gazette. 1 April 1870. p. 2006.
  23. ^ "No. 23739". The London Gazette. 20 May 1871. p. 2473.
  24. ^ "No. 23925". The London Gazette. 3 December 1872. p. 6104.
  25. ^ "No. 24053". The London Gazette. 13 January 1874. p. 136.
  26. ^ Dodsley (1846). Annual Register. p. 210.
  27. ^ Burke, Sir Bernard, ed. (1914). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (76th ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2349.
  28. ^ The Gentleman's Magazine. 1849. p. 198.
  29. ^ "No. 25372". The London Gazette. 1 July 1884. p. 3027.

References

Military offices
Preceded by Commander-in-Chief, Channel Fleet
1863–1866
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Second Naval Lord

1866–1868
Succeeded by
Vacant
Next held by
Sir John Tarleton
Preceded by
First Naval Lord

1868–1872
Succeeded by
Preceded by Governor, Greenwich Hospital
1872–1884
Succeeded by