Cuthbert Collingwood RN (1748 - 1810)

Born 26 Sep 1748 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Blackett) Collingwood — married 16 Jun 1791 in St Nicholas, Newcastle upon Tyne, England

Died 7 Mar 1810 at age 61 in At Sea

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Biography

Cuthbert Collingwood RN is Notable.

Cuthbert Collingwood, son of Cuthbert Collingwood and his wife, Milcah Dobson, was baptised at St Nicholas in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 24 October 1748. ^[1]

Six older sisters and two younger brothers.

In the Royal Navy from the age of 12 Collingwood served with Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar and was made a Baron.

He married Sarah Blackett at St Nicholas, Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 16 June 1792 ^[2].^[3]and they had two daughters

"...After the brief Peace of Amiens in 1802, at which time Collingwood became a rear admiral and saw his wife and children for the last time, the long, grinding build-up to the Trafalgar campaign saw him more or less continuously stationed off Brest, blockading the French Atlantic fleet. Collingwood’s letters during these years, alternately wistful, rhetorically anti-French, grumpy and indomitable, reveal a middle-aged man, old before his time through overwork and what these days we would call micro-management. He was indulgent to his midshipman and sailors, hard on his officers, unstinting in his duty. His only companion was his faithful dog Bounce, an almost perfect naval dog except for its dislike of gunfire. Collingwood was known to sing poor Bounce to sleep in his own cot with Shakespearean sonnets adapted to canine sensibilities. If long years of war and service had worn him to a thread, his famous wit survived intact. His put-downs were the stuff of legend and his correspondence, especially with his sisters and sisters-in-law, is full or charm and gossip. His handwriting, almost to the end, was perfect copperplate with a flourish of the tail on every ‘d’. ...That he has spent the last 200 years almost entirely neglected, overshadowed by the exploits of his brilliant but flawed friend Nelson, is a historical injustice which his bicentenary ought, finally, to redress." From Collingwood Society biographical sketch[1]

Research Notes

Moved from Death Location: HMS Ville de Paris; replaced with "At Sea"

Sources

1. ↑ England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 FHL Film Number1068902 (St Nicholas, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 24 October 1748 Cuthbert Collingwood son of Cuthbert Collingwood and Milcah) Viewed at Ancestry. Text only
2. ↑ Marriage record St Nicholas, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (16 June 1792 Cuthbert Collingwood married Sarah Blackett) Viewed at Ancestry. Text only
3. ↑ https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/58182955e93790eb7f48a5ee/sarah-blackett-cuthbert-collingwood-marriage-northumberland-newcastle-upon-tyne-1791-06-16?locale=en

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Collingwood, Cuthbert, Baron Collingwood (1748–1810)
• Wikipedia: Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood
• BBC article[2]

See Also...

• "Cuthbert Collingwood, Commander; Cuthbert Collingwood, Captain; John Fish, 4th Lieutenant; Nicholas Kemp, Lieutenant; James Eastman, purser; Joseph Bell, boatswain; James Farrer, purser; William Imbree, boatswain; John Blyth, carpenter; Charles Thomas, carpenter. Warrants or commissions for service at this rank in the Royal Navy," (1781). Ref. ADM 6/22/258. National Archives, Kew. Web.
• "Will of The Right Honorable Cuthbert Baron Collingwood, Vice Admiral in His Majesty's Navy, Vice Admiral of the Red Squadron in His Majesty's Fleet and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Fleet in the Mediterranean of Hethpole and Caldbourne , Northumberland.," (08 May 1810). Ref. PROB 11/1511/121. National Archives, Kew. Web.

See also:

• 'Jane Austen's Family through Five Generations' by Maggie Lane, published by Robert Hale Limited, London. ISBN 0 7090 4832 7. Includes extensive family trees. Details of contemporaries and other connections are also mentioned in the text.Jane Austen's Family through Five Generations