James Lillicrap

James Lillicrap
James Lillicrap
Died	9 July 1851
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Royal Navy
Years of service	1780–1833
Rank	Rear Admiral
Commands held	HMS Dispatch; Cape of Good Hope Station; HMS Gloucester;
Battles/wars	French Revolutionary Wars; Gunboat War;

Rear Admiral James Lillicrap (died 9 July 1851) was a Royal Navy officer who became commander-in-chief of the Cape of Good Hope Station.

Naval career

Lillicrap joined the Royal Navy in September 1780.[1] He saw action at the Second Battle of Algeciras in July 1801 during the French Revolutionary Wars and commanded the sloop HMS Dispatch at the Battle of Copenhagen in August 1807 during the Gunboat War.[1] Promoted to captain in October 1810, he was given command of the fifth-rate HMS Hyperion in January 1815.[1] He became commander-in-chief of the Cape of Good Hope Station, with the rank of Commodore, in September 1821[2] and, after commanding the third-rate HMS Gloucester from October 1823 to March 1824, became Captain-Superintendent at Portsmouth in April 1830 before retiring in June 1833.[1] He was "promoted to the rank of Retired Rear Admiral of Her Majesty's Fleet" in 1846.[3]

O'Byrne
Hiscocks, Richard (17 January 2016). "Cape Commander-in-Chief 1795-1852". morethannelson.com. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
"No. 20656". The London Gazette. 3 November 1846. p. 3838.

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