A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Wybergh, Peter
WYBERGH. (Commander, 1824. f-p., 12; h-p., 29.)
Peter Wybergh was born in 1794, and died about the commencement of 1849. He was sixth and youngest son of the late Thos. Wybergh, Esq., of Clifton Hall, co. Westmoreland, by Isabella, eldest daughter of John Hartley, Esq., of Whitehaven. The ancient family of which he was a member have been in possession of Clifton Hall since the days of Edward III.
This officer entered the Navy, 6 Sept. or Oct. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Bellerophon 74, Capt. Edw. Rotheram, bearing the flag in the Channel of the late Sir Albemarle Bertie; with whom, in 1808, he sailed, as Midshipman, in the Leopard 50, for the Cape of Good Hope; where he continued employed until 1810 in the Racehorse 18, Capt. Wm. Fisher, Charwell 18, Capts. Wm. Gordon and Henry Thompson, Boadicea 38, Capt. Josias Rowley, and Africaine 38, flag-ship again of Admiral Bertie. In June, 1811, he rejoined Capt. Rowley on board the America 74, in the Mediterranean; and on 19 April, 1814, after having taken part in the unsuccessful attack upon Leghorn and in the reduction of Genoa, he was there nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Prince of Wales 98, Capt. John Erskine Douglas. To that ship he was confirmed 18 May following. He left her in July of the same year; and was afterwards employed – from Sept. 1814 until Nov. 1815 in the Briseis 10, Capt. Wm. Rush Jackson,, on the river Clyde – and from 15 April, 1820, until advanced (on being paid off) to the rank of Commander 31 March, 1824, part of the time as Flag-Lieutenant, in the Rochfort 80, bearing the flag of Sir Graham Moore in the Mediterranean. These were his last appointments.
Commander Wybergh married, in 1828, Jane, second daughter of the late Archibald Tod, Esq., of Drygrange, co. Roxburgh, by whom he has left issue three sons and four daughters.