the Mole of Malaga, an enterprise which, although partially successful, terminated in a loss to the British, out of 149 officers and men, of 15 (including Capt. Lilburn) killed and 53 wounded. After having acted for a period as Commander of the Star sloop in North America, Mr. Otty was confirmed in his present rank by a commission bearing date 1 July, 1815. During the two following years he appears to have had command of the Montreal and Charwell on the lakes of Canada. He has since been on half-pay.
OTWAY, Bart. (Captain, 1846.)
Sir George Graham Otway, born in Sept. 1816, is eldest surviving son of the late Admiral Sir Robt. Waller Otway, Bart., G.C.B., whom he succeeded 12 May, 1846.
This officer entered the Navy 15 July, 1828; and on the occasion of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 10 Oct. 1838, was appointed Additional of the Princess Charlotte 104, bearing the flag of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford in the Mediterranean, where he removed, 21 Feb. 1839, to the Hazard 18, Capt. Jas. Wilkinson. His succeeding appointments were – 8 Nov. 1839, to the Vanguard 80, Capt. Sir Thos. Fellowes, with whom he returned to England – 5 June, 1841), to the Southampton 50, Capt. Wm. Hillyar, fitting at Chatham – and, 13 Aug. following, to the Medea steamer, Capt. Fred. Warden, in the Mediterranean. Being awarded a second promotal commission 25 Jan. 1841, he was next – from 25 May, 1843, until advanced, in compliment to his father’s memory, to Post-rank, 18 May, 1846 – employed in command of the Virago steam-sloop, of 300-horse power, again in the Mediterranean. He has since been on half-pay. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
OTWAY. (Commander, 1837. f-p., 13; h-p., 29.)
Robert Otway entered the Navy, 10 Jan. 1805, as Midshipman, on board the Pallas 32, Capt. Lord Cochrane. Under that gallant officer he assisted, in March, 1805, at the capture of a galleon, Il Fortuna, laden with specie to the amount of 150,000l., and with merchandize of nearly equal value; he witnessed also, in May, 1806, the destruction of the semaphores along the French coast; and, in the course of the same month, he was present, under a heavy fire from the batteries on Ile d’Aix, in a single-handed attack made by the Pallas on the French 40-gun frigate La Minerve, in company with three 18-gun brigs. On the latter occasion the British ship, while preparing to board, unfortunately ran foul of her opponent, and by the tremendous shock was reduced to a complete wreck. Between June, 1806, and Feb. 1812, Mr. Otway was successively employed, on the West India and Home stations, part of the time as Master’s Mate, in the Northumberland and Belleisle 74’s, both flagships of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, Ethalion 36, Capt. Wm. Chas. Fahie, Belleisle again, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Geo. Cockburn, Neptune 98, Capt. W. C. Fahie, Abercromby 74, Capt. Sir Jas. Athol Wood, Dragon 74, flag-ship of Sir Fras. Laforey, Wanderer sloop, Capt. Frank Gore Willock, Dragon a second time, Nayaden frigate, Capt. Robt. Merrick Fowler, Helena sloop, Capt. Henry Montresor, and again in the Dragon. In the Ethalion we find him aiding, as Master’s Mate, at the reduction, in Dec. 1807, of the Danish islands of St. Thomas and Ste. Croix; and in the Belleisle, in 1809, at the capture of Martinique and Flushing. He was confirmed in the rank of Lieutenant (after having acted for three months as such in the Demerara, Capt. W. Smith, on the West India station) 14 May, 1812; and was subsequently appointed – for a few months in 1813, to the Boyne 98 and Ville de Paris 110, flag-ships of Sir Harry Burrard Neale in the Channel – 17 Sept. 1822, to the Bulwark 76, Capt. Thos. Dundas, lying at Plymouth, where he remained upwards of 12 months – 22 July, 1830, to the command (which he retained until the close of 1833) of the Echo steam-vessel – and, 23 April, 1836, to the command (with his name on the books of the William and Mary yacht) of the Comet, another steamer. As an especial mark of the approbation entertained by the Admiralty of his services in the Echo and Comet on the coasts of Spain and Portugal during the civil war, he was advanced to his present rank 6 Jan. 1837. He has since been on half-pay.
In 1838 Commander Otway published ‘An Elementary Treatise on Steam.’ He is married and has issue. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
OTWAY. (Commander, 1846. f-p., 19; h-p., 7.)
Robert Jocelyn Otway is youngest son of the Rev. J. Sam. Otway; and nephew of the late Admiral Sir Robt. Otway, Bart., G.C.B.
This officer entered the Navy 3 May, 1821; passed his examination in 1827; and was made Lieutenant, 13 Nov. 1828, into the Sapphire 28, Capt. Henry Dundas, on the South American station, whence he returned home and was paid off in 1830. His succeeding appointments were – 8 Oct. 1832, for nearly three years, to the Spartiate 76, Capt. Robt. Tait, successive flag-ship of Sir Michael Seymour and Sir Graham Eden Hamond, again in South America – 22 Aug. 1840, to the Calcutta 84, Capts. Sir Sam. Roberts and Geo. Fred. Rich, with whom he served, in the Mediterranean and off Lisbon, until paid off at the close of 1842, the chief part of the time as First-Lieutenant – and, 16 May, 1843, in the latter capacity, to the Castor 36, Capt. Chas. Graham, fitting for the East Indies. In Dec. 1845, being at the time at New Zealand, Lieut. Otway landed in command of 188 officers, seamen, and marines belonging to the latter ship, and on 11 of the following month, after having most usefully participated for three weeks in a series of trying operations (more particularly alluded to in our memoir of Capt. Graham), assisted, and was officially mentioned for his conduct, at the storming and capture, notwithstanding a desperate resistance of four hours, of a strongly fortified pah belonging to a rebel chieftain named Kawiti. He was in consequence promoted to the rank of Commander by commission bearing date the day of the occurrence.[1] He returned to England in the course of the same year, and is now on half-pay.
Commander Otway married, 17 Aug. 1836, Anne Digby, youngest daughter of the late Sir Hugh Crofton, Bart., of Mohill House, co. Leitrim, by whom he has issue. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
OTWAY, Bart., G C.B. (Admiral of the White, 1841. f-p., 36; h-p., 26.)
Sir Robert Waller Otway was born in April, 1772, and died suddenly 12 May, 1846. He was second son of Cooke Otway, Esq., of Castle Otway, co. Tipperary, an old officer of dragoons, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sam. Waller, Esq., of Lisbrian, in the same co., sister of Sir Robt. Waller, Bart., and niece of Sir Robt. Jocelyn, Bart., who, after filling the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was created Baron Newport and Viscount Jocelyn. Sir Robt. Otway (whose family, a branch of the Otways of Middleton and Ingmire Hall, co. Westmoreland, had been seated in Ireland since the days of Cromwell) was brother (with Major Geo. Otway of the 85th Regt., who died at Jamaica in 1804) of Sir Loftus Wm. Otway, C.B., a Lieutenant-General in the Army and Colonel of the 84th Regt., and uncle of the late Hon. Robt. Otway Cave, M.P., and the present Commander Robt. Jocelyn Otway, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 15 April, 1784, as Midshipman, on borad the Elizabeth 74, Capt. Robt. Kingsmill, and after a servitude of three years in the Mediterranean on board the Phaeton frigate, and a further attachment, in the West Indies, to the Blonde, was made Lieutenant, 8 Aug.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1846, pp. 2345, 2346, 2348.
