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Authorised form of nameSmith; Sir; William Sidney (1764 - 1840)
Other forms of nameWilliam Sydney
Dates1764 - 1840
Place of birthWestminster, England
Date of birth21 June 1764
Place of deathParis, France
Date of death26 May 1840
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Cemetery of Pere-Lachaise, Paris, France
ActivityCareer:
Entered the Royal Navy (1777); Lieutenant, for bravery at Cape St Vincent, (1780); Captain (1782); taken prisoner by the French (1796) but escaped (1798); commanded the 'Tigre' in the Levant and held the town of St Jean d'Acre against Napoleon (1799); destroyed the Turkish fleet of Abydos (1807); Vice Admiral of the Blue (1810); Admiral (1821); lived last years in Paris
Honours:
Kt 1792; KCB 1815; GCB 1838
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election13/06/1811
RelationshipsSon of John Smith, Captain in the Guards
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1840 No 45 p 264
Notes:
alt name in Proc Roy Soc 1840 No 45 p 264. 'Saml Carlisle' is Samuel Goodenough, Bishop of Carlisle
CodeNA6936
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1811/11Smith, Sir William Sidney: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/004291Smith, Sir William Stanleynd
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