Lord Molyneaux Shuldham (1717-1798)

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Lord Molyneaux Shuldham (Baron Shuldham)

NationalityBritish 
RolesNaval Sailor 
Date of Birth1717E-WIKI
First Known Service1.11.1732CSORN
A.K.A.SchuldhamRNLPC
FatherRev. Lemuel ShuldhamHPO
MotherElizabeth née MolyneuxHPO
WifeMrs Margaret Irene Harcourt née Sarney - Married 4.10.1790HPO
Last Known Service1.2.1793CSORN
Date of Death21.9.1798CSORN

Event History


Date fromDate toEventSource
25.1.1738/39 Passed the Lieutenant's Examination ADM 107/3/331RNLPC
31.8.1739 LieutenantCSORN
12.5.1744 CommanderADM 6/18
12.5.174419.10.1745
Blast (8) 1740-1745
British 8 Gun
Unrated Bomb Vessel
, Commander, and Commanding Officer ADM 6/17/109
Confirmed 31.5.1746		BWAS-1714
12.5.1746 CaptainCSORN
12.5.174620.12.1748
Sheerness (24) 1743-1768
British 24 Gun
6th Rate Ship
, Captain, and Commanding Officer ADM 6/17/104		BWAS-1714
27.12.174821.3.1748/49
Queenborough (24) 1747-1761
British 24 Gun
6th Rate Ship
, Captain, and Commanding Officer ADM 6/17/427		ADM 6/17
21.3.1748/4922.6.1752
Unicorn (24) 1748-1771
British 24 Gun
6th Rate Frigate
, Captain, and Commanding Officer ADM 6/17/450		BWAS-1714
23.10.175411.3.1755
Seaford (20) 1754-1784
British 20 Gun
6th Rate Ship
, Captain, and Commanding Officer ADM 6/18/112		BWAS-1714
11.3.175511.3.1756
Warwick (60) 1733-1756
British 60 Gun
4th Rate Ship of the Line
, Captain, and Commanding Officer ADM 6/18/145		BWAS-1714
11.3.1756 Capture of the Warwick 
25.7.175814.7.1759
Panther (60) 1758-1813
British 60 Gun
4th Rate Ship of the Line
, Captain, and Commanding Officer ADM 6/18/528		BWAS-1714
16.1.175919.1.1759Attack on Martinique 
20.1.17591.5.1759Capture of Guadeloupe 
14.7.17598.1.1762
Raisonnable (64) 1758-1762
British 64 Gun
3rd Rate Ship of the Line
, Captain, and Commanding Officer ADM 6/19/301
Issued by
John MooreBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1738-1778
, Barbados
Confirmed 23.3.1760		BWAS-1714
7.1.176210.2.1762Operations against Martinique 
27.4.17621.5.1762
Marlborough (68) 1756-1762
British 68 Gun
3rd Rate Ship of the Line
, Captain, and Commanding Officer ADM 6/19/404		ADM 6/19
1.5.17628.6.1762
Rochester (50) 1749-1770
British 50 Gun
4th Rate Ship of the Line
, Captain, and Commanding Officer ADM 6/19/538
Issued by
George PocockBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1718-1766
, East Indies
Confirmed 14.9.1763		ADM 6/19
8.6.176221.9.1763
Foudroyant (80) 1758-1787
British 80 Gun
3rd Rate Ship of the Line
, Captain, and Commanding Officer ADM 6/19/546
Issued by
George Brydges RodneyBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1740-1782

Confirmed 25.10.1763		BWAS-1714
1.12.17666.12.1769
Cornwall (74) 1761-1780
British 74 Gun
3rd Rate Ship of the Line
, Captain, and Commanding Officer ADM 6/20/149		BWAS-1714
17.11.177014.2.1772
Royal Oak (74) 1769-1815
British 74 Gun
3rd Rate Ship of the Line
1805 Renamed "Assistance"
, Captain, and Commanding Officer ADM 6/20/315		BWAS-1714
17721774Appointed Governor of NewfoundlandHPO
14.2.1772 Appointed Commander-in-Chief — Newfoundland ADM 6/20/430ADM 6/20
14.2.177216.12.1774
Panther (60) 1758-1813
British 60 Gun
4th Rate Ship of the Line
, as Flag Officer, Commodore, ADM 6/20/430		BWAS-1714
10.10.17747.4.1784Elected a Member of Parliament for FoweyHPO
31.3.1775 Rear-Admiral of the WhiteCSORN
9.17755.2.1776
Chatham (50) 1758-1814
British 50 Gun
4th Rate Ship of the Line
1810 Renamed "Tilbury"
, as Flag Officer, Rear-Admiral of the White, 		BWAS-1714
29.9.17752.1776Appointed Commander-in-Chief — North America ADM 6/21/123ADM 6/21
7.12.1775 Vice-Admiral of the BlueADM 6/21
5.2.17766.9.1776
Chatham (50) 1758-1814
British 50 Gun
4th Rate Ship of the Line
1810 Renamed "Tilbury"
, as Flag Officer, Vice-Admiral of the Blue, 		BWAS-1714
2.7.17764.7.1776Commander-in-Chief at the Staten Island Landings 
2.7.17764.7.1776Staten Island Landings 
31.7.1776 Appointed Baron ShuldhamE-WIKI
22.3.177710.9.1777Appointed Commander-in-Chief — Plymouth ADM 6/21/270ADM 6/21
10.9.1777 Appointed Commander-in-Chief — Barbados & the Leeward Islands ADM 6/21/310ADM 6/21
29.1.1778 Vice-Admiral of the WhiteCSORN
12.17781779
Foudroyant (80) 1758-1787
British 80 Gun
3rd Rate Ship of the Line
, as Flag Officer, Vice-Admiral of the White, 		BWAS-1714
26.9.1780 Vice-Admiral of the RedCSORN
178228.4.1783
Dunkirk (60) 1754-1792
British 60 Gun
4th Rate Ship of the Line
, as Flag Officer, Vice-Admiral of the Red, 		BWAS-1714
24.9.1787 Admiral of the BlueCSORN
1.2.1793 Admiral of the WhiteCSORN
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Posted by Pieter van der Merwe on Sunday 18th of May 2025 00:45

The spelling of Shuldham's first name is Molyneux (no 'a').

It is also historically incorrect to call him 'Lord Molyneux Shuldham': that written form is only correct for a (usually) younger son of a duke or (I think) marquess. For example, Captain Lord George Graham was son of the Duke of Montrose, earlier in the century. He became Admiral Molyneux Shuldham, 1st Baron Shuldham and would have been addressed or wriiten to as (Admiral) Lord Shuldham. The same applied to other commoners raised to the peerage including Anson and Nelson.
This common modern error was not helped by the 'Concise Catalogue' of oil paintings in the National Maritime Museum (1986) which consistently makes it because an early computer-cataloguing based project in which informed historical advice was ignored due to internal politics.

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