of tea, sugar, &c. for half the usual allowance of spirits. In 1818 he printed for private circulation a tract entitled ‘Naval Suggestions,’ many of which have been embraced; and in 1832 he gave to the world his ‘Practical Hints on Building, Rigging, Arming, and Equipping His Majesty’s Ships-of-War, &c.’ The Vice-Admiral married, first, Catherine Anna, only surviving daughter of Stepney Rawson Stepney, Esq., of Castle Durrow, King’s co., Ireland; and secondly, 1 Oct. 1804, Anne, youngest daughter of the late Rear-Admiral Rich. Smith, of Poulton-cum-Seccombe, in Cheshire, whose mother had had the early care of King George III. By his first marriage he has one son, Herbert, a Commander R.N.; and by his second, two, the elder of whom, Frederick Charles, holds the same rank in the service. The younger, George Augustus, is a First-Lieutenant R.M.A. (1834). Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
SCHOMBERG. (Commander, 1844.)
Charles Frederick Schomberg is eldest son ofVice-Admiral Schomberg by his second marriage.
This officer entered the Navy (from the Royal Naval College) 16 May, 1829; passed his examination in 1833; obtained his first commission 28 June, 1838; and was appointed, 13 July following, to the Hastings 72, Capt. John Lawrence, fitting for the Mediterranean; where he became, 3 Feb. 1841, Senior of the Cyclops steamer, Capt. Horatio Thos. Austin. While in the Hastings he took part in the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria, and on the night of 1 Oct. served in the boats under Commander Henry John Worth, at the destruction of a train laid to one of the castles at Beyrout, and the capture there of 31 barrels of powder.[1] In Nov. 1843 he removed with Capt. Austin, as Additional Lieutenant, to the Tartarus steamer; and on 10 Feb. 1844 he was advanced to the rank of Commander. His appointments have since been, in the capacity of Second Captain – 21 June, 1845, and 6 Dec. 1847, to the Queen 110, and San Josef 110, both commanded, on Home service, by Sir Henry John Leeke – and, 7 Jan. 1848, to the Wellesley 72, bearing the flag of the Earl of Dundonald on the North America and West India station. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
SCHOMBERG. (Lieutenant, 1827. f-p., 15; h-p., 14.)
Henry Charles Schomberg, born 1 Aug. 1804, is third son of the late Commissioner Isaac Schomberg,[2] R.N., author of the ‘Naval Chronology,’ by Amelia, daughter of John Lawrance Brodrick, D.D., and grand-daughter of Viscount Middleton. He is cousin of Vice-Admiral A. W. Schomberg.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 5 Feb. 1818; and embarked, in April, 1820, on board the Rochfort 80, commanded by his cousin, Capt. Chas. Marsh Schomberg, as flag-ship of Sir Graham Moore in the Mediterranean; where, after serving as Midshipman in the Larne 20, Capt. Robt. Tait, and again in the Rochfort, he became, early in 1824 and 1827, Mate of the Revenge 76, and Asia 84, bearing the flags of Sir Harry Burrard Neale and Sir Edw. Codrington. He was in the Rochfort when that ship afforded a passage to the present King of the Belgians; and he was in charge of the watch at the moment that the Marquess of Hastings, who died on board, breathed his last, in Baia Bay, Naples. He was frequently, while in her engaged in boat affairs with pirates. During the time he belonged to the Revenge he commanded the Racer and Express tenders, and assisted at the blockade of Algiers. Attaining the rank of Lieutenant 30 April, 1827, he was in the course of that year so appointed to the Gannet 18, Capt. Francis Brace, and Glasgow 50, Capt. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude; and next, 16 Oct. 1828, and 9 March, 1829, to the Jaseur 18, Capt. John Lyons, and Maidstone 42, Commodore C. M. Schomberg, both at the Cape of Good Hope. In the Glasgow he was employed in watching the movements of the Turco-Egyptian fleet prior to the battle of Navarin (at which he fought in the capacity of Second Lieutenant), and afterwards in suppressing piracy in the Archipelago. Since the paying-off of the Maidstone in Aug. 1832 he has not been afloat.
Lieut. Schomberg married, 6 Aug. 1833, Susan, relict of his cousin, Henry Brodrick, Esq., of co. Kilkenny.
SCHOMBERG. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 22; h-p., 8.)
Herbert Schomberg, born 19 Dec. 1803, is only son of Vice-Admiral A. W. Schomberg, by his first marriage.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 15 Dec. 1817; and embarked, 17 Dec. 1819, as a Volunteer, on board the Phaeton 46, Capts. Wm. Augustus Montagu and Henry Evelyn Pitfield Sturt; in which ship we find him, during a servitude of four years, employed on the coast of North America, in the Channel in attendance upon George IV. and otherwise, and in the West Indies in the suppression of piracy. While on the books, from 17 Jan. 1824 (in the course of which month he passed his examination) until 7 Sept. 1827, of the Jupiter 60, commanded, on the Halifax station, by Capts. David Dunn, Sir Wm. Saltonstall Wiseman, and Wm. Webb, he served at times in the Ganymede tender, Doterel 18, Capt. Wm. Alex. Baillie Hamilton, and Hussar 46, Capt. Edw. Boxer. During the last few weeks of his attachment to the Jupiter he acted as Lieutenant. He was officially promoted 1 1 Sept. 1827; and was subsequently employed – from Feb. 1828 until Sept. 1829, in the Orestes 18, Capt. John Reynolds – from Sept. 1829 until Feb. 1835, in the Britannia 120, flag-ship of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, in the Rapid 10, Capt. Chas. Henry Swinburne, in command of the Ceylon 2, as Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Thos. Briggs, in the Meteor steamer, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Henry Symons, in the Rainbow 28, Capt. Sir John Franklin, again, as before, in the Ceylon, and in the Barham 60, Capt. Hugh Pigot, and, a second time, in the Britannia, Capt. Peter Rainier, all in the Mediterranean – and from Jan. 1836 until promoted to the rank of Commander 8 June, 1841, in the Melville 74, flag-ship on the North America and West India, Cape of Good Hope, and China stations, of Admirals Sir Peter Halkett and Hon. Geo. Elliot. While belonging to the Orestes he was engaged in cruizing against smugglers on the coast of Ireland; in relieving the homeward-bound trade in the Channel, and in blockading Tangier; and in experimentally cruizing under Hon. Sir Charles Paget, H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence, and Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood. He was First-Lieutenant of the Melville when that ship was hove down under very trying circumstances at Chusan; and also at the capture of the Bogue forts. The latter affair procured him the rank he now holds. Since his elevation to it he has been on half-pay.
Commander Schomberg married, 18 April, 1844, Sarah, third daughter of the Rev. Wm. Stevens Bayton, of Westergate House, near Chichester. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
SCHULTZ. (Retired Commander, 1839. f-p., 16; h-p., 35.)
George Augustus Schultz was born 26 June 1785.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Sept. 1796, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Sandwich[3] 98, Capt. Jas.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1840, p. 2609.
- ↑ Commissioner Schomberg served as First-Lieutenant under the veteran Cornwallis, in the memorable battle between Rodney and De Grasse, as also in the Pegasus 28, under the command of his late Majesty William IV., upon whom, when Midshipman with Lord Hood in the Barfleur. he had been an attendant. He commanded the Culloden 74, in Lord Howe’s action 1 June, 1704, and died at Chelsea 20 Jan. 1813.
- ↑ The Sandwich, as is known, was the ship which, during the mutiny at the Nore, bore the flag of the notorious Parker. Mr. Schultz was permitted on that occasion (through
