Sir John Cramer (3^rd Baronet)

Notes on Officer

Sir Josiah Coghill Coghill, born in 1773, is youngest son of the late Sir John Coghill, Bart., by Mary, daughter of Dr. Josiah Hort, Archbishop of Tuam. He succeeded his brother, as third Baronet, 21 May, 1817, and assumed, in the following June, the surname of “Coghill,” in place of his patronymic “Cramer.”

This officer entered the Navy, in April, 1782, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Bristol 50, Capts. Hugh Campbell and Jas. Burney, with whom he served in the East Indies until discharged in April, 1786. In April, 1798, he re-embarked on board the Haerlem 64, armée en flûte, Capt. Geo. Burlton, in which ship, having been created an Acting-Lieutenant in Sept. 1798, he was officially promoted 24 March, 1800. After attending the subsequent expedition to Egypt, and cutting out, in command of the Haerlem’s boats, the Prima galley, from the mole of Genoa, he removed, 25 April, 1801, to the Africaine, Capt. Jas. Stevenson; and, on 7 May, 1802, was promoted, from the Dédaigneuse frigate, Capt. Thos. Geo. Shortland, to the command of the Rattlesnake sloop, in the East Indies; where, with two boats under his immediate orders, we find him, after a sanguinary contest, destroying a pirate-vessel on the coast of Malacca. Having obtained, 25 April, 1805, the acting-command of La Concorde 36, Capt. Coghill, on 1 Feb. 1806, received an Admiralty commission confirming his appointment to that frigate, in which he continued until Sept. 1807. On next joining, 2 Oct. 1809, the Diana 38, he forthwith proceeded to join the armament then off Walcheren, and arrived in time to perform service marked by the approbation of the Commander-in-Chief. Capt. Coghill left the Diana in Feb. 1810, and remained on half-pay until 7 Oct. 1813, when he was appointed to the Ister 36, in which he served on the Leeward Island station until July, 1815. He has not been since afloat. His promotion to Flag-rank took place 23 Nov. 1841.

Sir Josiah Coghill, who is Deputy-Lieutenant for co. Dublin, married, first, in March, 1803, Sophia, daughter of Jas. Dodson, Esq., by whom (who died in 1817) he had three daughters; and, secondly, 27 Jan. 1819, Anna Maria, eldest daughter of the late Right Hon. Chas. Kendal Bushe, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King’s Bench in Ireland, by whom he has living two sons and seven daughters.