78 guns, lying in the Medway, July 31, 1821; and at present commands the Cambridge 82, on the South American station. He married, Dec. 2, 1811, Harriet, youngest daughter of the late celebrated Dr. Darwin, of the Priory, near Derby.
One of Captain Maling’s sisters is the lady of Earl Mulgrave; another was married to Lieutenant-Colonel Jackson, of the Guards, and died at Lisbon in 1813; a third to Colonel Walsh, formerly a Commissioner of the Victualling Board; and a fourth to Robert Ward, Esq., M.P. for Haslemere, and Clerk of the Ordnance.
JOHN ACWORTH OMMANNEY, Esq
A Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Southampton; and a Justice of the Peace for Surrey.
[Post-Captain of 1800.]
This officer is the eldest son of the late Rear-Admiral Cornthwaite Ommanney[1]. He entered the naval service in 1783, and during the ensuing eleven years, served successively on board the Powerful 74; Rose frigate; Leander 50; Aquilon 28; Zebra sloop of war; and Lion of 64 guns; under the respective commands of Captains Fitzherbert, and Henry Harvey; Rear-Admiral Peyton; and Captains Robert Montagu, William Brown, and Sir Erasmus Gower. The latter gentleman, of whom we have already spoken in our first volume, at p. 783, may justly be considered as his principal naval patron.
In 1792, Sir Erasmus Gower, who had recommended himself to the notice of Earl Macartney, by his exploits in India during the American war, was selected by that nobleman to command the ship fitting for his conveyance to China. Sir
- ↑ Rear-Admiral Ommanney had seven children, six of whom are now living, viz. John Acworth, the subject of this memoir; Sir Francis Molyneux, a Navy Agent, and M.P. for Barnstaple; Henry Manaton, a Post-Captain; Edward Symons, a Merchant at North Yarmouth; Cornthwaite, a Captain in the 24th Light Dragoons, now on half pay; and Ann Symons, who married, in 1815, Captain Pipon of the 7th Hussars. His other child, Montagu, was a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, and died on service in the West Indies, in 1796. The Rear-Admiral died in 1801, sincerely lamented by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance.
