Royal Naval Biography/Blackwood, Price
PRICE BLACKWOOD, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1823.]
Son of the Hon. Hans Blackwood, brother to Lord Dufferin, by M. Hester, second daughter and co-heiress of Sir Robert Temple, Bart.[1]
Mr. Price Blackwood was born at Dublin, May 26th, 1796. He first went to sea, May, 1808, in the Warspite 74, commanded by his uncle. Captain (now Sir Henry) Blackwood, under whom he continued to serve, on the Mediterranean and Channel stations, until about June, 1813; when, having passed his examination for lieutenant, he joined the Goliah 58, Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland, fitting out for the North American station; where he was promoted into the Mohawk sloop, Captain Henry Litchfield, March 10, 1814. His subsequent appointments were, – Oct. 1st, 1814, to the Tanais 38, Captain Joseph James; – June 10th, 1816, to the Active 46, Captain Philip Carteret (both of which frigates were employed in the West Indies); – Aug. 6th, 1819, to the Leander 60, as flag-lieutenant to Sir Henry Blackwood; and in April, 1820, to act as commander of the Curlew sloop, then employed in the Persian Gulph, and afterwards in the China seas. In Feb. 1822, his uncle appointed him acting captain of the Leander; and in May following he was removed to the Topaze 46, which frigate he brought home and paid off, in October, 1822. His Admiralty commissions as Commander and Post-Captain bear date June 4th, 1821, and April 2d, 1823.
Captain Price Blackwood married, July 4th, 1825, Helen Selina, eldest daughter of the late Thomas Sheridan, Esq.
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.
- ↑ A brief account of the Blackwood family will be found in the note at p. 642 of Vol. I. Part II. The Temples, of Stowe, in Buckinghamshire, are, according to many genealogists, descended from Lcefric, Earl of Mercia, and the famous Godiva, who is reported to have rode naked through Coventry, in order to obtain from her husband some immunities fur the inhabitants.