18-609: Totty may refer to: Thomas Totty (1746–1802), Welsh naval officer of the Napoleonic Wars Charles Henry Totty (1873–1939), American horticulturist Top Totty , an English golden ale beer See also [ edit ] Totties , a hamlet in West Yorkshire, England Totti , a name Toty (disambiguation) Toddy (disambiguation) Tottie (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
36-522: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Thomas Totty Rear Admiral Thomas Totty (1746 – 2 June 1802) was a Welsh naval officer of the Napoleonic Wars . Totty was born at Holywell, Flintshire , and was baptised at Holywell parish church on 24 January 1746. He inherited a large farmhouse in the town of Flint which later became Cornist Hall , from his mother's side. His father
54-486: The American Revolutionary War 's second week and possibly one of the ships bombarding American positions in the run-up to the battle of Bunker Hill . Totty was appointed Master and Commander on 17 February 1778 and then promoted to Post Captain on 31 January 1782, getting the frigate HMS Sphinx as his first command and then (in 1796) HMS Alfred as his second. HMS Alfred was stationed in
72-583: The Invincible ran aground off Yarmouth and sank, with more than 400 men lost, though Totty and those of his officers who survived were found not guilty of negligence. Totty then transferred to HMS Zealous and finally reached the Baltic. One letter written to Totty by Nelson concluded: Allow me now, my dear Sir, both as a public and private man to express to you how much I feel indebted to you as an Admiral for your truly officer-like manner of conducting
90-691: The Leeward Islands Station in 1779. Parker was with his father at the Battle of Dogger Bank , and with Richard Howe in the two actions in the Straits of Gibraltar . He reached flag rank on 1 February 1793, the same day that war was declared against the new French Republic. As rear admiral , he served under Samuel Hood at Toulon and in Corsica . He was promoted to vice admiral on 4 July 1794 and took part, under The Lord Hotham , in
108-573: The Suffolk coast. His first son – the third Hyde Parker (1786–1854) – became a rear admiral in turn on 23 November 1841 and vice admiral on 4 June 1852. From 1853 he served as First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy , and died on 25 May 1854. His son Hyde, a captain in the navy, commanded Firebrand in the Black Sea, and was killed on 8 July 1854 when storming a Russian fort at the mouth of
126-587: The West Indies and with her Totty landed troops at St Lucia and Puerto Rico and in February 1798 captured three French ships. He rose to rear admiral on 1 January 1801, becoming port admiral at Chatham Dockyard the following month. He sailed from Great Yarmouth to join the Baltic fleet on board HMS Invincible , to serve as that fleet's third in command under Hyde Parker and Horatio Nelson (possibly his first service with Nelson). However,
144-520: The Copenhagen affair he had "a good professional reputation" but after Copenhagen he was "considered irresolute and dilatory. In Wilson's opinion "As an officer, Parker was an able administrator rather than a great leader and this was to prove a weakness when it came to having both St Vincent as his chief and Nelson as a subordinate"; and that "He was evidently a popular man for as Nelson wrote after Copenhagen:" We all respect and love Sir Hyde; but
162-598: The King's service and also for the truly kind and handsome manner you have ever expressed yourself towards myself. For believe me, my dear Sir, that with the very highest respect for your character, I feel myself your most obliged and affectionate servant. Totty was appointed commander of the Leeward Islands Station on 17 November 1801 and set sail for there the following month. Soon after arriving in Martinique he caught yellow fever and died of it at sea on 2 June 1802. He
180-522: The Royal Navy at an early age, and became lieutenant on 25 January 1758, having passed most of his early service in his father's ships. On 16 December 1762 was promoted to command Manila , from which, on 18 July 1763, he was posted to Baleine . From 1766 onwards for many years he served in the West Indies and in North American waters, particularly distinguishing himself in breaking
198-469: The dearer his friends, the more uneasy they have been at his idleness for that is the truth—no criminality. I believe Sir H. P. to be as good a subject as His Majesty has. Parker was twice married: first, to Anne, daughter of John Palmer Boteler, and by her had three sons; second, in 1800, he married Frances, a daughter of Admiral Sir Richard Onslow , and made their home at the manor house in Benhall on
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#1732798431913216-513: The defences of the North River at New York in 1776 as captain of HMS Phoenix . His services on this occasion earned him a knighthood in 1779. In 1778 he was engaged in the Savannah expedition , and in the following year his ship was wrecked on the hostile Cuban coast. His men, however, entrenched themselves, and were in the end brought off safely. He became commander-in-chief of
234-489: The first objective of the expedition, fell in the Battle of Copenhagen on 2 April 1801 to the fierce attack of Nelson's squadron – Parker, with the heavier ships, taking little part due to the shallowness of the channel. At the height of the battle Parker, who was loath to infringe the customary rules of naval warfare, raised the flag to disengage. Famously, Nelson ignored the order from his commander by raising his telescope to his blind eye and exclaiming " I really do not see
252-618: The indecisive fleet actions on 13 March 1795 and 13 July 1795. From 1796 to 1800 he was in command at the Jamaica Station and ably conducted the operations in the West Indies . These included the tracking down and execution of a number of crewmen involved in the mutiny on board HMS Hermione in 1797. In 1801 he was appointed to command the Baltic Fleet destined to break up the northern armed neutrality, with Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson as his second-in-command. Copenhagen ,
270-407: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Totty . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Totty&oldid=1225370590 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
288-647: The signal " (although this is generally accepted to be a myth). Nelson pressed on with the action and ultimately compelled the Danish forces to capitulate. Parker's hesitation to advance up the Baltic Sea after his victory was later severely criticised. Soon afterwards he was recalled and Nelson succeeded him. He died on 16 March 1807. In Parker's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography his biographer Clive Wilkinson writes that until
306-512: Was an ironmonger and mine owner and had 21 other children – Thomas was one of 18 who survived infancy (another was his youngest brother Hugh, chaplain to George IV , who died aged 101). He took his examination for lieutenant in 1766 and so appears to have joined the navy about 1760 (the exam was only open to those of six years' service or more). He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant on 30 April 1775 onboard HMS Mercury , then in Boston harbour during
324-635: Was buried at Portsmouth Garrison Chapel . A memorial was also set up to him by his brother William in the Chapel of St John, St Andrew and St Michael at Westminster Abbey sculpted by John Bacon . Hyde Parker (admiral) Admiral Sir Hyde Parker (1739 – 16 March 1807) was an admiral of the British Royal Navy . He was born in Devonshire , England , the second son of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, 5th Baronet (1714–1782). He entered
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