SADLER. (Lieut., 1818. f-p., 14; h-p., 22.)
Benjamin Peyton Sadler entered the Navy, 1 July, 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Stork 18, Capts. Geo. Le Geyt and Robt. Lisle Coulson, employed on the Irish station, where he became Midshipman, in June, 1813, of the Fortunée 36, Capt. Wm. Goate. He next, from Jan. 1814 until April, 1815, served, on the coast of North America, in the Saturn 56, Capt. Jas. Nash, Endymion frigate, Capt. Henry Hope (to whose memoir refer for an account of the capture of the U.S. ship President), and Saturn again, Capt. Thos. Brown. After he had been for about three years attached, at Portsmouth, in the East Indies, and a second time at Portsmouth, to the Prince 98, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Thornbrough, Horatio 38, Capt. Wm. Henry Dillon, and Queen Charlotte 100, also the flag-ship of Sir E. Thornbrough, he was promoted, 25 May, 1818, to the rank of Lieutenant. His last appointments were, 16 Sept. 1818 and 22 March, 182.3, to the Cydnus 20, Capt. Chas. Sam. White, and Harlequin 18, Capts. John Weeks and Jas. Scott, in which vessels he was employed, for periods of about three years each, on the Irish and Jamaica stations. He has not been afloat since 1826.
He married, 25 Feb. 1830, Catharine Barnard, youngest daughter of the late W. Skinner, Esq.
ST. AUBYN. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Robert John St. Aubyn entered the Navy 14 Oct. 1828; passed his examination 7 Oct. 1835; and obtained his commission 17 Aug. 1841. From the latter date until 1845 he was employed in the East Indies as Additional Lieutenant in the Cornwallis and Agincourt 72’s, flag-ships of Sir Wm. Parker and Sir Thos. John Cochrane; and since 12 Aug. 1847 he has been attached, in a similar capacity, to the Penelope steam-frigate, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Chas. Hotham on the coast of Africa.
ST. CLAIR. (Commander, 1842. f-p., 16; h-p., 7.)
The Honourable Charles St. Clair, born 8 June, 1811, is second son of Lord Sinclair, by his first wife, Mary Agnes, only daughter of Jas. Chisholme, Esq., of Chisholme. His uncle, Hon. Matthew St. Clair, Commander R.N., was lost in the Martin sloop in 1800.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 5 Aug. 1824; and embarked, 16 June, 1826, as a Volunteer, on board the Blonde 42, Capt. Lord Byron. In the course of the same month he removed to the Ganges 84, Capt. Sam. Hood Inglefield, fitting for the flag of Sir Robt. Waller Otway, with whom he sailed soon afterwards, for South America. While on that station he landed, in June, 1828, at Rio de Janeiro, with the Marines of the squadron under Capt. Sam. Hood Inglefield (to whom he had been nominated Aide-de-Camp), and assisted in subduing a serious mutiny among the German and other troops in the service of Don Pedro. In Sept. 1829 he became in succession Midshipman (a rating he had previously attained) of the Melville 74, and Rapid 10, Capts. Alex. Wilmot Schomberg and Chas. Henry Swinburne – the latter on the Mediterranean station, where he remained until obliged by an attack of ague to procure his discharge, 10 April, 1832. In the early part of 1830 he was sent, in company with Lieut. Eyton and Mr. Webster, Mate, across the Morea, from Napoli di Romania to Pergos and Zante, with despatches and the first overland Indian mail; in the following Oct. he was employed on shore on secret service at Grabusa; and in June, 1831, he was on board the Rapid when she discovered a volcanic island, since called Gahami Island [errata 1]. While attached, as Mate,[1] from Aug. 1832 until May, 1835, to the Nimrod 20, Capts. Lord Edw. Russell and John M‘Dougall, he served in the river Douro and on the coasts of Spain and Portugal during the civil war, and accompanied the Stag frigate, with Don Miguel on board, from the neighbourhood of Lisbon to Genoa. He also landed with Capt. M‘Dougall on the north coast of Spain, and proceeded with him on a particular mission to Bilboa. In March, 1836, he joined the Phoenix steamer, Capt. Wm. Honyman Henderson; and in that vessel and, as “Competent Mate,” in the Tweed 20, Capt. Hon. Fred. Thos. Pelham, he continued employed until presented with a commission bearing date 7 March, 1837. In the Phoenix we find him assisting in carrying the Carlist lines at St. Sebastian, 5 May, 1836, and engaged, at Pasages, in throwing up and defending batteries. During the term of his servitude in the Tweed he contributed to the capture of the town of Hernani, and was in constant co-operation on shore with the Christino troops. His appointments, after he left her, were – 24 April, 1837, to the Hercules 72, Capts. Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Sir Jas. John Gordon Bremer, John Toup Nicolas, and Edw. Barnard, in which ship he was chiefly, until paid off in Nov. 1839, employed in carrying troops to Canada, Halifax, the West Indies, and Gibraltar – 29 Dec. 1840, to the Vernon 50, Capt. Wm. Walpole, on the Home station – 26 Oct. 1841, as First-Lieutenant (four months after he had left the Vernon) to the Cambridge 78, Capt. Edw. Barnard, under whom he served off Gibraltar, and aided in recovering the wreck of H.M.S. Tribune, lost off Tarragona – 27 April, 1842, to the Caledonia 120, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir David Milne at Plymouth – 22 Aug. following, to the Royal George yacht, Capt. Lord Adolphus FitzClarence, in which vessel he escorted Her Majesty and the Prince Consort to Scotland – and 12 Oct. in the same year, again, in his former capacity, to the Caledonia. Since the attainment of his present rank 10 Nov. 1842, he has been on half-pay.
Commander St. Clair married, 29 Sept. 1840, Isabella Jane, youngest daughter of Wm. Foreman Home, Esq., of Paxton and Billie, a Magistrate, Deputy-Lieutenant, and Commissioner of Supply for co. Berwick, by whom he has issue. One of his wife’s sisters, Jean, is married to David Milne, Esq., eldest son of the late Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.B., and another, Margaret, to the Hon. Adolphus F. Cathcart, a Captain in the Army, youngest son of the late Earl Cathcart.
ST. CLAIR. (Retired Captain, 1847.)
David Latimer St. Clair, born in May, 1786, at Chichester, co. Sussex, is third son of Colonel Wm. St. Clair, of the 25th Regt. (who was at Gibraltar with the Duke of Kent, and was for 46 years a faithful servant of his country), by Augusta, daughter of John Tinling, Esq.; and grandson of a General officer, who was descended from Walderness, Comte de St. Clare, the representative of an ancient French family, the cousin-german of William the Conqueror (with whom he came over to England in 1066), and the common ancestor of Lord Sinclair, and the Earls of Rosslyn and Caithness. Capt. St. Clair is brother of Colonel Jas. Pattison St. Clair; of Capt. Wm. St. Clair, of the 25th Foot, who commanded a regiment, composed of the flank companies of the Army, and was killed, at the storming of the heights of Sourrier, in Martinique, 2 Feb. 1809; and of Colonel Thos. Staunton St. Clair, of the 1st Royals, who received four medals for his services during the Peninsular War. His mother was sister of Lieut.-General Tinling, of the Grenadier Guards; of Lieut.-General David Latimer Tinling-Widdrington; of Rear-Admiral Chas. Tinling; and of Major Geo. Tinling, of the 11th Foot.
This officer (whose name had been borne, since April, 1793, on the books of the Queen 98, Andromeda frigate, Orion 74, and Queen again) embarked, in March, 1796, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Royal Sovereign 100, Capt. Wm. Bedford, bearing the flag in the Channel of Vice-Admiral Sir Alan Gardner. Becoming Midshipman, in Sept. 1797, of the Scorpion sloop, commanded by his uncle, Capt. Chas. Tinling, he accompanied, in 1799, the expedi-
- ↑ He had passed his examination at the R.N. College 10 Nov. 1839, and for seamanship 17 June, 1830.
