nominated Sub-Lieutenant of the Attack gun-brig; and on 1 Feb. 1806 he was made full Lieutetenant into the Confiance sloop, Capt. Jas. Lucas Yeo. After further serving in the Royal William, flag-ship of Admiral Montagu at Spithead, in the Thalia 36, commanded on the Guernsey station by Capt. Jas. Walker, and for two years as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Edm. Nagle in the Ardent 64, at Leith, he was promoted, 17 Aug. 1810, to the rank of Commander. In 1813 we find him superintending the naval yards on the Canadian lakes; and on 6 May, 1814, performing, in the Prince Regent, the duties of Flag-Captain to Commodore Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo at the capture of Oswego, where he was intrusted with the direction of the boats and gun-vessels employed in landing the troops.[1] In 1815, having been advanced to Post-rank 16 Aug. in the preceding year, he returned to England. He was nominated a K.C.H. 25 Jan. 1836; and accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.
Capt. O’Conor married Miss Hannah Ross, daughter of an eminent merchant and East India Director, by whom he has issue a son (an officer in the Hon.E.I.Co.’s service) and three daughters, the eldest of whom is married to a Swiss nobleman. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
OGILVIE. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 12; h-p., 31.)
Henry Ogilvie was born 1 Sept. 1791. This officer entered the Navy, 23 March, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Bacchante 20, Capt. Chas. Dashwood, stationed in the Channel; he removed, in the following Aug., to the Canopus 80, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Geo. Campbell in the Mediterranean; and, from March, 1805, until Dec. 1810, he served on board the Donegal 94, Capt. Pulteney Malcolm. He accompanied Lord Nelson, in the latter ship, in his pursuit of the combined squadrons to the West Indies and back – participated in the capture of El Rayo of 100 guns, one of the ships recently defeated at Trafalgar – was wounded in the action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806, for which he received a gratuity of 40l. from the Patriotic Fund – escorted Sir Arth. Wellesley’s army from Cork to Portugal in 1808 – witnessed the destruction, 24 Feb. 1809, of three French frigates under the batteries of Sable d’Olonne – was present in the ensuing April at Lord Cochrane’s destruction of the enemy’s shipping in Basque Roads – and on 15 Nov. 1810 assisted in an attack made, by Capt. Chas. Grant of the Diana, on the two French frigates Amazone and Eliza, protected by the fire of several strong batteries, near Cherbourg. On leaving the Donegal he became attached to the Illustrious 74, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Wm. Robt. Broyghton in the East Indies; where, on his removal, as Master’s Mate, to the Akbar 50, Capt. Hen. Drury, he aided in effecting the conquest of Java. He was confirmed a Lieutenant (after having acted four months as Mate) in the Doris 36, Capt. Wm. Jones Lye, 7 Feb. 1812; and, returning to England in the following Dec, was next appointed – 2 June, 1813, to the President 38, Capts. Fras. Mason and Arch. Duff, for some time employed off the north coast of Spain, where he served, under Lieut. Dowell O’Reilly of the Surveillante, in the breaching batteries at the siege of St. Sebastian – 12 July, 1815 (he had invalided from the President in Aug. 1814), to the Nightingale 16, Capt. Christopher Nixon, in which vessel, stationed in the Downs, he remained but a few weeks – and, 2 April, 1816, to the Newcastle 50, bearing the flag at St. Helena and the Cape of Good Hope of his former Captain, Sir Pulteney Malcolm, to whom he became Signal-Lieutenant 20 Sept. following. He has been on half-pay since 16 Aug. 1817.
OGILVIE. (Lieut., 1816. f-p. 8; h-p., 31.)
Simon Taylor Ogilvie entered the Navy, 3 Aug. 1808, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Rover brig, Capt. Fras. John Nott, with whom during the remainder of the year he cruized in the North Sea. Becoming Midshipman, in April, 1809, of the Heeoihe 32, Capt. Hood Hanway Christian, he accompanied the ensuing expedition to the Walcheren, and was present, under Lord Wm. Stuart, at the forcing of the passage between the batteries of Flushing and Cadsand. In Nov. of the same year he joined the Castilian 18, Capts. Robt. Brown Tom and David Braimer; and in the course of 1811 he commanded the cutter belonging to that vessel at the cutting-out of a brig from under a heavy fire of musketry near Dieppe. In July of the same year we again find him placed under the orders of Capt. Christian in the Iris 36, in which ship, after co-operating with the patriots on the north coast of Spain, and witnessing the capture of Castro, he sailed for the Brazils, whence, in May, 1814, he returned home as a Supernumerary in the Akbar 50, Capt. Arch. Dickson. Between the following July and Oct. 1815 he served on the Home station in the Martial 12, Capts. Hen. Forbes and Jas. Leach, Challenger 16, Capt. Hen. Forbes, and, as Admiralty Midshipman, in the Orlando 36, Capt. John Clavell. He was then transferred, in the capacity last mentioned, to the Hebrus 36, Capt. Edm. Palmer; and for his services in that frigate at the bombardment of Algiers he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 16 Sept. 1816. He has since been on half-pay.
OGILVIE. (Retired Commander, 1846. f-p., 16; h-p., 37.)
William Ogilvie entered the Navy, in July, 1794, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Tremendous 74, Capts. John Aylmer, Geo. Hopewell Stephens, and Chas. Brisbane; in which ship he continued employed in the Channel and at the Cape of Good Hope, part of the time as Midshipman under the flag of Rear-Admiral Thos. Pringle, until his return with that officer to England in the Crescent frigate in 1798. After serving three years in the North Sea and Baltic on board the St. George 98, Capts. John Holloway, Sampson Edwards, and Thos. Masterman Hardy, flag-ship latterly of Lord Nelson, and participating in the attack upon the Danish line of defence before Copenhagen, he was made Lieutenant, 27 June, 1801, into the Russel 74, Capt. Wm. Cuming, with whom he proceeded off Cadiz. He left the Russel in Nov. 1801, and was afterwards appointed – 11 June, 1803, to the Windsor Castle 98, Capts. Albemarle Bertie, Thos. Wells, Davidge Gould, and Chas. Boyles, stationed in the Channel – about July, 1805, to the Sampson 64, employed at first in South America and then at the Cape of Good Hope, whence he returned in May, 1806 – 21 May, 1807, to the Banterer 22, Capt. Alex. Shiphard, under whom he was wrecked in the river St. Lawrence 29 Oct. 1808, suffering on the occasion many hardships – and, 29 April, 1809, to the Venerable 74, Capt. Sir Home Popham, in which ship he accompanied the expedition to the Walcheren, and served in the Channel until March, 1812. He became a Retired Commander on the Junior List 11 Aug. 1832; and on the Senior, 9 March, 1846. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
OGILVY. (Commander, 1841.)
George Keith Ogilvy died 20 Sept. 1846, at Wyndham Place. He was son of the late Rear-Admiral Sir Wm. Ogilvy, Bart.,[2] by the eldest daughter of the late Jas. Morley, Esq.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1814, p. 1367.
- ↑ Sir Wm. Ogilvy entered the Navy in 1 173. He served, as Lieutenant of the Polyphemus 64, in the partial action with the combined fleets off Cape Spartel 20 Oct. 1782; acted as Captain of the Robust 74 at the occupation of Toulon in 1793; and was presented with a second promotal commission for his conduct as First of the Glory 98, in Lord Howe’s action 1 June, 1794. As Commander of the Lark sloop, he distinguished himself during Sir John Warren’s expedition to Quiberon in 1795, and was present, in 1796, at the unsuccessful attack upon the town and fort of Leogane, in the island of St. Domingo. He afterwards, until the peace of Amiens, commanded the Thunderer 74, in which he caused the self-destruction of the Harmonie, a French frigate of the largest class, and Magicienne 32. His Post-commission bore date 5 July, 1797. He was placed on the list of Superannuated Rear-Admirals 6 Dec. 1821.
