confirmed 17 Sept. in the same year; and was subsequently appointed – 12 Feb. 1807, to the Formidable 98, Capt. Fras. Fayerman, also in the Mediterranean, where he remained for a further period of three years – 6 April, 1810, to the Audacious 74, Capt. Donald Campbell, attached to the force in the North Sea and off Lisbon – 21 Aug. 1811, to the Barbadoes 24, commanded in the West Indies by Capt. Edw. Rushworth and for a short time by himself as Acting-Captain – 6 July, 1812, to the Polyphemus 64, Capt. Peter John Douglas, on the same station – and, 26 Feb. 1813, after three months of half-pay, to the Centaur 74, Capt. John Chambers White, in the Channel. He invalided in May, 1814, and has not, we believe, been since afloat. He obtained a pension of 91l. 5s. per annum for wounds 1 July, 1815; and was advanced to the rank of Commander 31 Dec. 1830.
SAVAGE. (Lieut., 1813. f-p., 26; h-p., 17.)
William Henry Savage died in 1847. He was son of the late Rev. Christopher Kingsborough Savage, by Christian, only child of Bartholomew Welstead, Esq., of co. Cork, an officer in the Army; and brother (with Christopher Savage, Esq., also an officer in the Army) of Francis Savage, Esq., of Ballymadun, co. Dublin, late Captain in the 32nd Regt., and a Magistrate for the county.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 Dec. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the St. George 98, Capts. Hon. Michael De Courcy and Thos. Bertie. After serving for about two years and a half, part of the time in the capacity of Midshipman, on the West India, Halifax, and Channel stations, he joined, in July, 1807, the Tonnant 80, bearing the flag of his former Captain, then Rear-Admiral, De Courcy, with whom he continued employed in the Channel, on the north coast of Spain, and on the coast of Brazil, in the Diana 38 and Foudroyant 80, until Nov. 1812 – the last four months as Acting-Lieutenant. In the Tonnant he assisted in embarking the remains of Sir John Moore’s army at Corunna. From Aug. 1813 until promoted, 13 Dec. following, to the rank of Lieutenant, his name was borne as a Supernumerary on the books of the Sabrina and Stately, flag-ships of Vice-Admiral Geo. Martin at Lisbon, where he had charge, during that period, of a Signal post. He was subsequently employed – between Jan. 1816 and Sept. 1818, in the Maeander 38, Capts. John Bastard, Arthur Fanshawe, and Sir Jas. Alex. Gordon, and Ister 42, Capt. Thos. Forrest, on the Home and Newfoundland stations and, from 20 March, 1829, until 1844, in the Coast Guard.
SAVILLE. (Retired Commander, 1835. f-p., 19; h-p., 35.)
George Augustus Saville was born 12 April, 1773. His brother, Capt. John Griffin Saville, R.N., died Agent for Prisoners-of-War at Jamaica in 1804.
This officer entered the Navy, in Nov. 1793, as A.B., on board the Irresistible 74, Capt. John Henry, part of the force employed under Sir John Jervis at the reduction of the French West India islands. On his return to England in 1794 he joined the Jupiter 50, Commodore John Willet Payne, under whom we find him, in March, 1795, escorting the Princess Caroline of Brunswick from Cuxhaven to England. Removing shortly afterwards to the Russell 74, Capt. Thos. Larcom, he fought in that ship, and was wounded in the left leg, in Lord Bridport’s action 23 June, 1795. He next, in Oct. 1796 and May, 1798, became Midshipman and Master’s Mate of the Impétueux 74, Capt. J. W. Payne, and Experiment 44, commanded by his brother, Capt. J. G. Saville. On his return, in the latter ship, from the expedition of 1799 to Holland, he proceeded to the Mediterranean; where, on 14 Dec. 1800, a few weeks after he had been received on board the Foudroyant 80, bearing the flag of Lord Keith, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Athénienne 64, Capt. Sir Thos. Livingstone, of whose tender, the Arab, he had command from July, 1801, to March, 1802. He was confirmed a Lieutenant on his arrival home, 13 Nov. 1802; and was subsequently appointed – 14 March, 1803, to the Cruizer 18, Capt. John Hancock, on the Home station, where, prior to invaliding in the following Oct., he contributed to the capture of a large French praam – 31 March, 1804, to the Sea Fencibles in Ireland – 30 Jan. 1805, to the Espiègle 16, Capt. Henry Gage Morris, in the Channel – 6 Aug. 1806 (three months after he had left the latter vessel), to the charge, which he retained until Nov. 1809, of a Signal station on the Irish coast – and, 31 July, 1811, to the post of Agent for Transports afloat. While serving in the Espiégle his spine was severely hurt by the bursting of a hawser in towing a vessel down Channel. The effects of the injury he then sustained he still occasionally feels. As a Transport Agent he was employed on the coasts of Spain and Portugal, in the expedition against New Orleans, and in exchanging, at different French ports, the prisoners taken at Waterloo. He went on half-pay 14 Dec. 1815; and accepted his present rank 21 April, 1835.
Commander Saville married 25 July, 1807, and has issue one son and two daughters.
SAWBRIDGE. (Lieutenant, 1828.)
Samuel Sawbridge, born in 1805, is son of Samuel Elias Sawbridge, Esq., of Olantigh, co. Kent, Colonel of the East Kent militia, by Elizabeth, daughter of Brabazon Ellis, Esq., of Wyddiall Hall, Herts; and brother of the late Capt. Wanley Elias Sawbridge, of the 28th Regt. His grandfather, John Sawbridge, was Lord Mayor of London in 1775, and M.P. for that city in three successive parliaments; and his great-great-grandfather, Jacob Sawbridge, M.P. for Cricklade, co. Wilts, was one of the Directors of the South Sea Company in the memorable year 1720.
This officer entered the Navy 13 June, 1820; passed his examination in 1826; obtained his commission 7 June, 1828; and was appointed, 22 Sept. following, to the Rattlesnake 28, Capt. Chas. Orlando Bridgeman, on the Mediterranean station. He was placed on half-pay a few months afterwards, and has not been since afloat.
SAYER. (Captain, 1810. f-p., 32; h-p., 35.)
George Sayer died in 1846. He was cousin of the late Rear-Admiral Geo. Sayer,[1] and of the pre-
- ↑ Rear-Admiral Geo. Sayer was a native of Deal, co. Kent, where his father was for 30 years Collector of the Customs, He entered the Navy on board the Phoenix 36, Captains Geo. Anson Byron and Sir Rich. John Strachan; and, while in that frigate, served on shore at the reduction of Tippoo Saib’s forts and other possessions on the Malabar coast, and assisted, in company with the Perseverance frigate, in effecting the capture of La Résolue of 46 guns, 19 Nov. 1791. As Lieutenant of the Carysfort 28, Capt.Sir Francis Laforey, he aided at the capture, 29 May, 1794, of the Castor French frigate of 32 guns. After serving as First-Lieutenant, with Sir F. Laforey, in the Carysfort, Beaulieu 40, and Ganges 74, he was promoted, in March, 1790, to the command of the Lacedaemonian sloop, part of the force employed at the ensuing reduction of Ste. Lucie. In 1797 Capt. Sayer was attached to the flotilla equipped for the purpose of acting against the mutinous ships at the Nore. After commanding for a considerable time the Xenophon and Inspector sloops he was advanced, 14 Feb. 1801, to Post-rank. During the late war he served in the Proselyte 28, Galatea 32, and Leda 36. In the Galatea he aided, in Dec. 1807, in obtaining possession of the Danish West India islands; and while in command of the Leda he bore a distinguished part, both afloat and on shore, in the operations connected with the conquest of Java, besides conducting, in 1813, an eminently successful expedition against the Sultan of Sambas in the island of Borneo, whose depredations had become so daring and extensive as to threaten the extinction of our commerce in that quarter, and who had some time before repulsed a respectable force sent to check his piracies. From the death of Sir Sam. Hood, in Dec. 1813, until the arrival of Sir Geo. Burlton, in June, 1815, and from the demise of the latter officer in the ensuing Sept. until the advent of his successor, Sir Rich. King, towards the close of 1816, Capt. Sayer was senior officer in India, and performed, in consequence, all the duties of Commander-in-Chief. His services in the East were rewarded with a gold medal and the Companionship of the Bath.
