Person Ommanney; Sir; Erasmus (1814 - 1904) Ommanney Erasmus Sir 1814 - 1904 British Male London, England 22 May 1814 St Michael's vicarage, Portsmouth, Hampshire 21/12/1904 19041221 Burial: Mortlake Cemetery, Surrey

6 Talbot Square, Hyde Park, London (1866)

Career: Entered the Royal Navy (1826); Lieutenant (1835); served with Sir James Clark Ross (FRS 1828) in the Arctic (1835); Commander (1840); Captain (1846); second in command of the expedition which found the first traces of Sir John Franklin's lost expedition (1850); blockaded Archangel during the Crimean War (1854); served in the West Indies (1857) and in the Mediterranean (1859); Vice Admiral (1871); Admiral (1877) Honours: CB 1867; Kt 1877; KCB 1902 Memberships: FRAS; FRGS Seventh son of Sir Francis Molyneux Ommaney MP and his wife Georgina Frances, daughter of Joshua Hawkes. Married: 1) (1844) Emily Mary, daughter of Samuel Smith of HM Dockyard, Malta (she died 1857); 2) (1862) Mary, daughter of Thomas A Stone of Curzon Street, London (she died 1906) Fellow 04/06/1868 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 334-335 signed by W J L W International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 22 May 1814 - 21 Dec 1904 NA6340 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes f28fc54b-c597-4479-a67c-d0d790b09a71