the Order of the Bath, Jan. 2, 1815, the Vice-Admiral was nominated a K.C.B.; and on the 16th May, 1820, he succeeded the Hon. Sir George C. Berkeley, as a G.C.B. Sir William Domett’s promotion to the rank of Admiral of the Blue took place August 12, 1819.
WILLIAM WOLSELEY, Esq
Admiral of the Blue.
The appellation of Wolseley was first assumed from Wolseley, in Staffordshire, where Siwardus, from whom the subject of the following sketch is descended, fixed his residence, and became lord thereof; which place still belongs to the family, in the person of Sir Charles Wolseley, Bart., the the elder branch of all the Wolseleys both in England and Ireland. Robert, the fifth in descent from Siwardus, was lord of Wolseley, and lived 1281. Ralph, another descendant, was one of the Barons of Exchequer, temp. Edw. IV.
The officer whom we. are now about to present to the reader’s notice, is a son of the late Robert Wolseley, Esq. (great grandson of Robert, who was created a Baronet Nov. 28, 1628; and great uncle of the present possessor of the title), by Miss Warren, of Kilkenny in the kingdom of Ireland. He obtained the rank of Post-Captain Sept. 14, 1782[1], on which occasion he was appointed to the Alarm frigate; and soon after the commencement of the war with France, 1793, we find him commanding the Lowestoffe of 32 guns, under the orders of Lord Hood, on the Mediterranean station.
Early in 1794, the Commander-in-Chief having received intelligence that the French forces at Corsica were much straitened for provisions, resolved to attempt their expulsion from that island, and accordingly despatched Commodore Linzee with, a squadron, consisting of the Alcide, Egmont,
- ↑ A Lieutenant of the name of Wolseley commanded a party of seamen, and was among the wounded, at the capture of Trincomalee, which was taken by assault, Jan. 11, 1781.
