Person Smith; Sir; William Sidney (1764 - 1840) Smith William Sidney Sir William Sydney 1764 - 1840 Male Westminster, England 21 June 1764 Paris, France 26 May 1840 Burial: Cemetery of Pere-Lachaise, Paris, France

Career: 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 Son of John Smith, Captain in the Guards Fellow 13/06/1811 Sources: 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 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 21 Jun 1764 - 26 May 1840 NA6936 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes a1ea442d-9df5-4b6c-9c9e-60185778c121