Frederick Montresor

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Frederick Montresor
Born1811
Died15 December 1887
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branchNaval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg Royal Navy
RankAdmiral
Commands held

East Indies & Cape of Good Hope Station

Admiral Frederick Byng Montresor (1811 – 15 December 1887) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, East Indies & Cape of Good Hope Station.

Naval career[]

Montresor was made a lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1835.[1] Promoted to Captain in 1857, he took command of [1] and sailed to Esquimalt in August 1858 to deal with American miners causing commotion in the Fraser River area.[2] In 1862 he transferred to the command of before being appointed Commander-in-Chief, East Indies & Cape of Good Hope Station in January 1865.[1]

He was promoted to rear-admiral in 1867, and retired in 1870.[1] In 1873, whilst on the retired list, he was further promoted to retired vice-admiral.[3]

Family[]

He was son of General Thomas Gage Montresor, grandson of John Montresor and nephew of Henry Tucker Montresor.[4] He married Emily Delafield.[5]

See also[]

  • O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Montresor, Frederick Byng" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d William Loney RN
  2. ^ Barry M. Gough, Turbulent Frontiers and British Expansion: Governor James Douglas, the Royal Navy, and the British Columbia Gold Rushes, The Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 41, No, 1 (Feb. 1972) pp. 15-32. Peter Davis, Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Calypso, accessed 30 April 2008. Peter Davis, Biography of Frederick Byng Montresor R.N.
  3. ^ "No. 23987". The London Gazette. 13 June 1873. p. 2833.
  4. ^ Henry Wagner, "The Huguenot Refugee Family of Montrésor", Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of London, vol. 11, opposite p. 293
  5. ^ HMS Euryalus
Military offices
Preceded by
Sir George King (East Indies and China Station)
Sir Baldwin Walker (Cape of Good Hope Station)
Commander-in-Chief East Indies & Cape of Good Hope Station
1865
Succeeded by
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