A Naval Biographical Dictionary/O'Conor, Richard
O’CONOR, K.C.H. (Captain, 1814. f-p., 14; h-p., 35.)
Richard O’Conor is second son of the late Sir Pat. O’Conor, of Cork, by Miss Terry, of Castle Terry, in that co.
This officer entered the Navy, in Sept. 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Dryad 36, Capt. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, employed on the Cork station, where, in 1799, he removed to the Doris 36, Capt. Lord Ranelagh. In 1801 he again joined Lord Amelius Beauclerk, as Midshipman, on board the Fortunée frigate, attached to the Channel fleet, with which he continued to serve, until Aug. 1805, in the Plantagenet and Majestic 74’s, Capts. Graham Eden Hamond and Lord A. Beauclerk, and Hibernia 110, flag-ship of Lord Gardner. He was then nominated Sub-Lieutenant of the Attack gun-brig; and on 1 Feb. 1806 he was made full Lieutetenant into the Confiance sloop, Capt. Jas. Lucas Yeo. After further serving in the Royal William, flag-ship of Admiral Montagu at Spithead, in the Thalia 36, commanded on the Guernsey station by Capt. Jas. Walker, and for two years as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Edm. Nagle in the Ardent 64, at Leith, he was promoted, 17 Aug. 1810, to the rank of Commander. In 1813 we find him superintending the naval yards on the Canadian lakes; and on 6 May, 1814, performing, in the Prince Regent, the duties of Flag-Captain to Commodore Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo at the capture of Oswego, where he was intrusted with the direction of the boats and gun-vessels employed in landing the troops.[1] In 1815, having been advanced to Post-rank 16 Aug. in the preceding year, he returned to England. He was nominated a K.C.H. 25 Jan. 1836; and accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.
Capt. O’Conor married Miss Hannah Ross, daughter of an eminent merchant and East India Director, by whom he has issue a son (an officer in the Hon.E.I.Co.’s service) and three daughters, the eldest of whom is married to a Swiss nobleman. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1814, p. 1367.