John Ommanney

Admiral Sir John Acworth Ommanney KCB (17 October 1773 – 8 July 1855) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth.

Sir John Ommanney
Born17 October 1773
Westminster, Middlesex, England[1]
Died8 July 1855(1855-07-08) (aged 81)
Havant, Hampshire
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Navy
RankAdmiral
Commands heldHMS Hussar
HMS Robust
HMS Barfleur
Plymouth Command
Battles/warsGreek War of Independence
Oriental Crisis
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Order of the Redeemer
HMS Donegal, 74-guns, flying the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir John Ommanney, heading down the Tagus past the Church of Santa-Engracia. James Wilson Carmichael

Ommanney joined the Royal Navy in 1786.[2] Promoted Commander in 1796, he was given command of a brig and arrested a fleet of Swedish merchant ships in the North Sea.[2] Promoted to Post Captain in 1800, he commanded HMS Hussar, HMS Robust and then HMS Barfleur.[2] In 1825 he took command of HMS Albion and took part in the Battle of Navarino in 1827.[2]

He was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Lisbon in 1837 and then Second-in-Command of the Mediterranean Fleet in 1840 during the Oriental Crisis.[3] He was made Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth in 1851.[2] He died on 8 July 1855.[2]

Family

In 1803, he married Frances Ayling; they had four daughters.[2]

See also
  • Northbrook Park, Farnham, Surrey
  • O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Ommanney, John Acworth" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.

References
  1. 1851 England Census
  2. J. K. Laughton, rev. Andrew Lambert, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 "Ommanney, Sir John Acworth (1773–1855)". Retrieved 23 August 2016
  3. Portsmouth Archived 23 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine The Times, 21 September 1840 p. 6
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