Jan. 1806 he was there nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Diomede 50, Capt. Joseph Edmonds; and on 10 March and 7 Dec. in the same year he was in succession transferred, in a similar capacity, to the Diadem 64, Commodore Sir Home Popham, and Sampson 64, Capt. Wm. Cuming. In the Diadem he was present at the capture and the recapture (by the Spaniards) of Buenos Ayres and the reduction of Maldonado and Goretti.[1] He was confirmed in the rank of Lieutenant 30 April, 1807; he was appointed next, 18 May ensuing and 26 April, 1810, to the Espoir sloop, Capt. Henry Hope, and Lion 64, Capt. Henry Heathcote, on the Mediterranean and East India stations (he had invalided from the Espoir 23 April, 1808); and on 24 Sept. 1811 (upwards of three months after he had left the Lion) he was promoted to the rank of Commander. He was appointed, 18 Aug. 1818, to the Sophie 18, fitting for the St. Helena station; was made Post, 22 Nov. 1820, into the Tamar 26, at Jamaica, whence he returned in 1822; and from 4 Feb. 1824 until 1827 was employed in the Samarang 28, and as Flag-Captain to Rear-Admiral Willoughby Thos. Lake in the Jupiter 60, at Halifax. He remained thenceforward on half-pay.
Sir W. S. Wiseman married, first, 8 Jan. 1812, Catherine, second daughter of Sir Jas. Mackintosh, Kt., Recorder of Bombay; and secondly, 5 April, 1827, Eliza, eldest daughter of the Rev. Geo. Davis, B.D., Rector of Cranfield, Bedfordshire. By the former lady, who died in 1822, he has left, with other issue, a son, the present Sir W. S. Wiseman, Bart., Commander R.N. Agents – Case and Loudonsack.
WISEMAN, Bart. (Commander, 1846. f-p., 19; h-p., 1.)
Sir William Saltonstall Wiseman, born 4 Aug. 1814, is eldest son of the late Sir W. S. Wisemap, Bart., Captain R.N.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 6 Sept. 1827; and embarked, 25 June, 1829, as a Volunteer, on board the Philomel 10, Capts. Chas. Graham and Hugh Berners, stationed in the Mediterranean, where he attained the rating of Midshipman. In Feb. 1831 and Nov. 1833 he joined the Rattlesnake 28, commanded by his former Captain, Graham, and the Sparrowhawk 18, Capt. Chas. Pearson, both in South America. He continued to serve in the Sparrowhawk as Mate until her return to England in Feb. 1837. In the course of the ensuing month he was appointed to the Britannia 120, flag-ship of Sir Philip Chas. Durham at Portsmouth; and on 28 June, 1838, at which period he had been for three months stationed on the coast of Scotland for the protection of the fisheries as Senior-Mate in the Partridge 10, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Morris, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. He was employed subsequently – from 26 July, 1838, until April, 1840, in the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings – from 7 April, 1840, until paid off in Aug. 1843, as Gunnery-Lieutenant, in the Vanguard 80, Capt. Sir David Dunn, in the Mediterranean – and, from 3 Jan. 1844 until promoted to the rank of Commander 7 Feb. 1846, again in the Excellent, as First-Lieutenant, under Capts. Sir T. Hastings and Henry Ducie Chads. He served as Second-Captain in the Vindictive 50, flag-ship of Sir Fras. Wm. Austen in North America and the West Indies, from 20 Nov. 1846 until put out of commission in the spring of 1848.
Sir W. S. Wiseman married, 24 Oct. 1838, Charlotte Jane, daughter of the late Chas. Wm. Paterson, Esq., Admiral of the White, of East Cosham House, Hants, by whom he has issue. Agents – Case and Loudonsaok.
WITHAM, Kt. (Lieut., 1818. f-p., 20; h-p., 19.)
Sir Charles Witham is third son of the late Wm. Witham, Esq. (of the ancient Yorkshire family of Witham, of Cliffe), by Dorothy, daughter of Thos. Langdale, Esq.; and brother of Lieut. Fras. Witham, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 8 May, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Gibraltar 80, Capts. Henry Lidgbird Ball and Valentine Collard, stationed in the Channel. From June, 1810, until March, 1812, he served in the Baltic as Midshipman (a rating he had attained in the Gibraltar) in the Courageux 74, Capt. Wm. Butterfield; during the next 16 months he was employed at Gibraltar as Master’s Mate in the Cossack 22 and Druid 32, both commanded by Capt. Wm. King; he was then, in July, 1813, received as a Supernumerary on board the Namur 74, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Williams at the Nore; and in April, 1814, he joined, again as Master’s Mate, the Newcastle 60, Capts. Lord Geo. Stuart and Henry Meynell. In her, after serving on the coast of North America and in the West Indies, he proceeded with the flag of Sir Pulteney Malcolm to St. Helena; where he was nominated, 6 Aug. 1816, Acting-Lieutenant of the Phaeton 46, Capt. Fras. Stanfell. He was officially promoted on his return to England from the Cape of Good Hope, 6 March, 1818; and was subsequently appointed – 3 Oct. 1818, to the Camelion 10, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, on the Portsmouth station – 15 Dec. 1821, to the Apollo yacht, Capt. Hon. Sir Chas. Paget – 3 Nov. 1824 (upwards of 12 months after he had left the Apollo), to the Britannia 120, bearing the flag of Sir Jas. Saumarez at Plymouth – 28 Dec. 1825, as First, to the Philomel 10, Capt. Lord Wm. Paget, fitting for the Mediterranean, whence he came home, we believe, at the close of 1826 – and, 29 May, 1828, in a similar capa^ city, to the Semiramis 24, flag-ship of Hon. Sir C. Paget at Cork. He has been on half-pay since 1831.
Sir Chas. Witham (who received the honour of Knighthood in 1830) married, 18 Nov. 1829, Jane, third daughter of John Hoy, Esq., of Stoke-by-Nayland, co. Suffolk, by whom he has issue.
WITHAM. (Lieut., 1818. f-p., 12; h-p., 27.)
Francis Witham is brother of Lieut. Sir Chas. Witham, R.N., Kt.
This officer entered the Navy, 8 May, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Gibraltar 80, Capts. Henry Lidgbird Ball, Valentine Collard, and Robt. Plampin, attached to the force in the Channel. In the following Nov. he attained the rating of Midshipman; and in Jan. 1812 he removed with Capt. Plampin to the Ocean 98; in which ship he was for two years and a half employed, the greater part of the time as Master’s Mate, on the Mediterranean station. He served afterwards, in the capacity last mentioned, from 23 July, 1814, until 5 Aug. 1815, in the Eurydice 24, Capts. Hon. Valentine Gardner and Rich. Spencer, on the coast of Ireland – from 6 Aug. 1815 until 25 Dec. 1816, in the Tiber 38, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres, on the same station and at Newfoundland – and, from 26 Dec. 1816 until May, 1818, in the Conqueror 74, bearing the flag of his former Captain, then Rear-Admiral, Plampin, at St. Helena. He was made Lieutenant, 12 May, 1818, into the Eurydice, commanded at the time by Capt. Robt. Wauchope; he was paid off from that ship (in which he had served at the Cape of Good Hope and at Rio de Janeiro) in Dec. 1819; and he was lastly, from 20 Dec. 1821 until some time in 1822, employed at Sheerness, as First-Lieutenant, in the Brisk 10, Capt. Edw. Stewart.
WODEHOUSE. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Armine Wodehouse is related to the present Lord Wodehouse.
This officer entered the Navy in 1835; passed his examination 8 Aug. 1842; served for two years at Portsmouth, as Mate, in the Excellent gunnery-ship, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings; then joined the Flying Fish 12, Capt. Robt. Harris, and Canopus 84, Capt. Fairfax Moresby, both on the Home sta-
- ↑ It was he who conveyed to the commandant of Goretti the summons from Sir Home Popham which led to the surrender of the island. – Vide Gaz. 1807, p. 115.
