Robert Boyle Walsingham

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Captain the Hon. Robert Boyle Walsingham in naval uniform, with a view of Louisbourg, Canada (1760) by Nathaniel Hone, the Elder (7-Nov)

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At a glance

Robert Boyle Walsingham (1736-1780)
Commodore in British Navy Married Charlotte Williams in 1759. Father of Robert and Charlotte, later Baroness de Ros Drowned, along with all his crew, in the Thunderer, in a violent hurricane off Jamaica.

On 17th July 1759, Captain Robert Boyle Walsingham MP (born March 1736, died October 1780) married Charlotte Williams. They had two children: Charlotte FitzGerald-de Ros, 21st Baroness de Ros and Richard Boyle-Walsingham (1762-1788). ^[6]

He was the youngest son of Henry (1682–1764), 1st Earl of Shannon, and of Henrietta Boyle. He took the name of Walsingham on succeeding to that property, and was MP for Knaresborough. ^[8]

In 1780 Boyle Walsingham, by then a commodore, was placed in charge of a squadron on its way to reinforce a fleet commanded by Admiral Rodney in the West Indies. He flew his flag in the Thunderer, a man-of-war with 74 guns and a crew of six hundred men. In October, just off Jamaica, they sailed into a most violent hurricane, and the ship went down with all hands. ^[7]

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Another ship captained by RBW

JASON, 44. 5th rate (1747 captured. 1763 sold)

1752 Capt. James YOUNG, appointed in February, Portsmouth. In April he complained that the Clerk of the Cheque there had refused to enter the seamen procured for the ship from the day of their entry but only from their appearance. The Clerk replied that bad health had prevented him from mustering the ship, it was his clerk who had told JASON's officers that he could only give him clearance from appearance without the Clerk of the Cheque's directions. ^[4]

1755 Capt. Robert ROUTH, 19th of January. In January 1756 he reported on trials with pieces of plank coated with a Mr George Bridge's composition to preserve ships from worms, which he had taken to the coast of Africa. In his opinion it was not effective. ^[4]

1757 Capt. William PASTON, 3rd August. 1757 Capt. Hon. Robert BOYLE (WALSINGHAM). Promoted from the BADGER, sloop, on 15th June. JASON was not actually in commission during the very short time he commanded her and he was paid without being required to pass any accounts. ^[4]

1758 Capt. Robert GRANT, when he was promoted to post captain and almost immediately removed into SUNDERLAND, in which he died at the Cape of Good Hope at the end of the year. 1758 Capt. Thomas WARRICK, 1st December. He was promoted to the PRINCE GEORGE,90, in 1762. In February 1762 JASON was advertised for sale. JASON, EXPERIMENT and GLORY were bought by a Mr James Hooke. ^[4]

' Of Mr. Nathaniel Cook, who was lost with the Thunderer Man of War, Captain Boyle Walsingham, in a most dreadful Hurricane, in October, 1780; aged 16 years. ' ^[2]
' THUNDERER, 74. 3rd rate (1760 Woolwich DY. 1780 wrecked) ' ^[5]

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Letter from Earl of Sandwich to Boyle Walsingham on the murder of his mistress, Martha Ray

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The Wills of Captain Cook's Crew - Robert Beard

In the Name of God Amen, I Robert Beard, Serjeant of Marines on board his Majesty's Ship Thunderer, The Honorable Robert Boyle Walsingham Commander ...

being in bodily health and of sound and disposing mind and memory, and considering the perils and dangers of the Seas and other uncertainties of this transitory life, do for avoiding controversies after my decease, make, publish and declare this my last Will and Testament in manner following, that is to say

First, I recommend my Soul to God that gave it, and my Body I commit to the Earth or Sea as it shall please God to order, and as for and concerning all my worldly Estate, I give, bequeath and dispose thereof as followeth, That is to say -

All such Wages, Sum and Sums of Money, Lands, Tenements, Goods, Chattels and Estate whatsoever as shall in any ways due, owing or belonging unto me at the time of my decease, I do give, devise and bequeath the same unto my beloved Wife, Elizabeth Beard of Rosemary Lane, Portsmouth Common.

And I do hereby nominate and appoint the above said Elizabeth Beard, Executrix of this my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all former and other Wills, Testaments and Deeds of Gifts by me at any time heretofore made. And I do ordain and ratify these presents to stand and be for and as my only last Will and Testament.

In Witness whereof to this my said Will I have set my hand and Seal the thirty first day of July in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine, And in the nineteenth Year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the third over Great Britain &c. Robert Beard.

Signed, Sealed, Published and Declared in the presence of R.B. Walsingham, Jno. Monds.

This Will was proved at London the seventeenth day of August in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one before the Right Worshipful Peter Calvert, Doctor of Laws, Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the oath of Elizabeth Beard, Widow, the Relict of the deceased and sole Executrix named in the said Will, to whom Administration was granted of all and singular the Goods, Chattels and Credits of the said deceased, she having been first Sworn by Commission duly to Administer. ^[1]

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