A Life of Duty and Service: Post-war political and social activism of Napoleonic era naval officers by Lorna M. Campbell and Heather Noel-Smith
Port Towns and Urban Cultures Conference, Portsmouth July 2013
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Naval Officers' Post-war Activism
1. A Life of Duty and Service
Post-war political and social activism of
Napoleonic era naval officers
By
Lorna M. Campbell
and
Heather Noel-Smith
Port Towns and Urban Cultures Conference, Portsmouth, 25th - 27th July 2013
2. Introduction
HMS Indefatigable Joining the Western Squadron by J.T. Serres, 1800, www.christies.com.
Sir Henry Hart
(1781 – 1756)
George, 3rd Earl Cadogan
(1783 – 1864)
Thomas Groube
(1774 – 1850)
19. Sir Henry Hart: Irish Election Petitions
Maynooth College in 1850, in A. C. Ewald The Life and Times of William Ewart Gladstone.
20. Sir Henry Hart: Anti-Slavery Prosecution
Am I Not a Man and a Brother, public domain image.
Abolition of the Slave Trade in The Gentleman’s Magazine, July to December 1819.
23. Sir Henry Hart: Technical Inventions
The Repertory of Patent Inventions, Vol XIII, January – June 1849. London.
24. George, 3rd Earl Cadogan
• Born Westminster, 1783.
• Joined the Royal Navy as a Boy,
First Class in 1795.
• Rose to the the rank of Admiral
in retirement.
• Naval Aide de Camp to King
William IV and Queen Victoria.
34. Thomas Groube
• Born Falmouth, 1774.
• Joined the Royal Navy in 1794.
• Governor of Naval Hospital,
Madras
• Rose to the rank of Rear Admiral
in retirement.
• Alderman of Borough of
Honiton.
35. Thomas Groube: Civilian Activities
Woolmer’s Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, Saturday September 23, 1848.
37. Thomas Groube: Income Tax Protests
The Western Times
“A memorial to the queen numerously and
most respectably signed is this day forwarded
form Honiton and one also from Ottery
against the income tax. That true friend of
the poor man, Captain Groube RN, has most
perseveringly accomplished it amidst clerical
scorn and Tory sneers. His efforts to promote
the best interests of this country are beyond
all praise.”
38. Thomas Groube: Income Tax Protests
Plymouth and Exeter Gazette
“At twelve o’clock the hour fixed for the meeting,
the Whig radicals headed by Mr Isaac John Cox, the
“kind hearted” Captain Groube, and Mr Gustavus
Smith assembled in the room when to their great
surprise (for they had calculated on having it all their
own way) they were soon followed by a numerous
body of the conservatives and in a few minutes the
looks of Mr Gustavus Smith unwittingly indicated
and foreshadowed the defeat of his party.”
HMS Indefatigable was probably Pellew’s most successful individual command. She was launched as a 64 gun ship in 1784 but she was not commissioned by the Royal Navy until 1794 when she was razeed to become a 44 gun heavy frigate. Pellew had considerable success with the Indefatigable as did her subsequent captains, all of whom captured numerous prizes.