Sir Chaloner Ogle, 1st Baronet (1726 – 27 August 1816) was an officer of the

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. He served during the

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, and the French Revolutionary and

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Early life

Ogle was born in 1726 into the prominent

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. He was the son of Elizabeth Newton and Dr. Nathaniel Ogle of

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, who served as Physician of the Forces, under the

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. Among his siblings were the Ver. Rev. Newton Ogle,

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, and sister Isabella Ogle, who married their cousin, and Ogle's namesake, Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle, and (after his death

James King, 4th Baron Kingston James King, 4th Baron Kingston (1693 – 26 December 1761) was a British member of the peerage. King was a prominent freemason, being the Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England for 1728–1730 and also Grand Master of the Grand Lodge ...

.G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14'' (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes,

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, 2000), volume VII, page 299. His paternal grandfather was Ralph Ogle and his maternal grandfather was Jonathan Newton, a

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Career

As a naval officer he was commissioned a lieutenant on 19 November 1745 and then promoted to captain on 30 June 1756. He served as captain of and then during the

. He took a number of valuable prizes during his cruises, and received a knighthood in 1768. From 1770 he commanded the 74-gun during the Falklands Crisis, and then the 74-gun from 1774. He served under Admiral Sir George Rodney at the relief of Gibraltar in January 1780, the

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and the Battle of Cape St. Vincent. He was promoted to Rear-Admiral of the Blue on 26 September 1780, Vice-Admiral of the Blue on 24 September 1787, Vice-Admiral of the Red on 1 February 1793, Admiral of the Blue on 12 April 1794 and

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in 1805. In 1773 he acquired the Manor of Kings Worthy,

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and on 12 March 1816 was created 1st Baronet of Worthy in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

Personal life

On 7 September 1761, Ogle married Hester Thomas at

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. She was the daughter of Susan Muslo and John Thomas,

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. His brother Newton married her sister Susanna. Together, they were the parents of:Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.''

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, 2003, volume 3, p. 3249. * Arabella Ogle (1762–1855), who married Hon. Edward Bouverie, son of

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, in 1785. After his death, she married Hon. Robert Talbot, son of Col. Richard Talbot and Margaret O'Reilly, 1st Baroness Talbot of Malahide, in 1828. * Barberina Ogle (1768–1854), who married Valentine H. Wilmot before 1819. After his death, she married

Thomas Brand, 20th Baron Dacre Thomas Brand, 20th Baron Dacre (25 March 1774 – 21 March 1851) was a British peer and Whig politician. Background Dacre was the eldest son of Thomas Brand, of The Hoo, Hertfordshire, and Gertrude, 19th Baroness Dacre, daughter of the Hon. Cha ...

, son of Thomas Brand and Gertrude Brand, 19th Baroness Dacre, in 1819. * Jemima Sophia Ogle (1770–1819), who married Gen. Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet, son of

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, in 1790. *

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(1775–1858), also an Admiral; he married Charlotte Margaret Gage, daughter of Gen. Hon.

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and Margaret Kemble, in 1802. After her death, he married Letitia Burroughs, daughter of

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, in 1820. After her death, he married Mary Anne ( Cary), daughter of George Cary of Torrey Abbey and widow of Sir John Hayford Thorold, 10th Baronet, in 1834. * Thomas Ogle (1776–1801), a Major who fought during the landing at

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in the Battle of Alexandria in 1801 and was killed in action. * James Ogle (1778–1833), a Reverend who married Elizabeth Poulter, daughter of Rev. Edmund Poulter, the

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, in 1807. Her brother,

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, was MP for

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. Sir Chaonler died at his seat at Worthy on 27 August 1816. He was succeeded in the

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by his son,

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Descendants

Through his daughter Barbarina, he was a grandfather of author Arabella (née Wilmot) Sullivan (1796–1839), who married Rev. Frederick Sullivan (fourth son of

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, parents of Barbarina Grey, Lady Grey and

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.Cooper, Thompson.
Brand , Barbarina, Lady Dacre (1768–1854)
" Rev. Rebecca Mills. ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Through his son Charles, he was a grandfather of Captain Sir Chaloner Ogle, 3rd Baronet (1803–1859), who married Eliza Sophia Frances Roe, parents of Sir Chaloner Roe Majendie Ogle, 4th Baronet (1843–1861), who died unmarried at age 18 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his younger half-brother Sir William Ogle, 5th Baronet (1823–1885), who "had been an invalid from his cradle". Through his youngest son James, he was a grandfather of Gen. Sir Edmund Ogle, 6th Baronet, colonel-commandant in the

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, who married Catherine St Hill and was the father of the last two baronets, Sir Henry Asgill Ogle, 7th Baronet and Sir Edmund Asgill Ogle, 8th Baronet, neith of whom married, thus rendering the baronetcy extinct upon the 8th baronet's death in

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in 1940.

Portraits

Confusion has arisen over another portrait, held at the

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, but this is now known to be a flag officer, previously thought to be Sir Chaloner Ogle. Another portrait of Sir Chaloner Ogle of Worthy by a follower of

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was sold at

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auction house in 2009, which bears the same likeness to the painting in the National Maritime Museum.

References

External links

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