| Authorised form of name | Ommanney; Sir; Erasmus (1814 - 1904) |
| Dates | 1814 - 1904 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | London, England |
| Date of birth | 22 May 1814 |
| Place of death | St Michael's vicarage, Portsmouth, Hampshire |
| Date of death | 21/12/1904 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Mortlake Cemetery, Surrey |
| Activity | 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
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 04/06/1868 |
| Relationships | 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) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 334-335 signed by W J L W |
| Code | NA6340 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| NLB/10/694 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster | 21 January 1895 |
| NLB/8/1093 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, [Royal Society] | 23 February 1894 |
| EC/1868/16 | Ommanney, Sir Erasmus: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MS/257/3/206 | Letter from Erasmus Ommanney, 6 Talbot Square to Edward Sabine | 8 October 1870 |
| MS/257/3/205 | Letter from Erasmus Ommanney, 6 Talbot Square to Edward Sabine | 20 April 1869 |
| MS/257/3/204 | Letter from Erasmus Ommanney, 6 Talbot Square to Edward Sabine | 9 March 1869 |
| RSC/5/2/5 | Letter from Erasmus Ommanney, United Services Club, Pall Mall, to [John] Gwyn Jeffreys | 3 November 1878 |
| RSC/5/2/6 | Letter from Erasmus Ommanney, United Services Club, Pall Mall, to [John] Gwyn Jeffreys | 19 November 1878 |