Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos: Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle

1765-1819. Third son of John Fremantle, of Aston Abbots, Buckinghamshire and brother of Sir William Fremantle. See family tree. He was a consummate navy officer, with only a brief sojourn into politics.

Age¹	Year	Date	Event
0	1765	20 November	Birth (BRO D-FR/43/O/219 gives 20 October but this probably an error.)
11	1777	July	Joined Navy on Hussar frigate (Parry; DNB says he was 12)
14	1779	October	Midshipman on Phoenix with Sir Hyde Parker, which sank off Cuba in hurricane of 1780
14	1780		Joined Jupiter
16	1782	13 March	Promoted Lieutenant on Jamaica Station
17	1783		Joined Camilla; served on other ships in the West Indies
22	1787	December	Leaves Jamaica
24	1790	July	On Brunswick with with Sir Hyde Parker
24	1790	13 November	Promoted Commander of Spitfire sloop
27	1793		Commander of Conflagration
27	1793	16 May	Promoted to Captain and commissioned the Tartar, sailed with Lord Hood to Mediterranean
27	1793	27 August	As captain of Tartar, led way into Toulon
28	1794	May	Engaged under Nelson in reduction of the Bastia in Corsica
28	1795	January	Captain of Inconstant at Genoa
28	1795	13 March	Action off Toulon in Inconstant under Nelson
29	1796	20 April	Capture of the Unite corvette
29	1796	27 June	Mentioned in dispatches after evacuation of Leghorn
29	1796	10 July	Capture of the Elba
29	1796	7 November	Capture of Piombino
30	1797	13 January	Married Elizabeth Wynne, daughter and coheiress of Richard Wynne of Falkingham, Lincolnshire
30	1797	1 July	Command of the Seahorse off Cadiz
30	1797	25 July	Severely wounded at Santa Cruz, Tenerife
30	1797	1 September	Arrives at Spithead with Nelson
34	1800	August	Appointed to Ganges
35	1801	2 April	Captain of the Ganges in Lord Nelson's victory of Copenhagen
36	1802		Loses Buckingham election
37	1803	August	Reappointed to Captain of Ganges in the Channel at the outbreak of war
39	1805	May	Appointed Captain of Neptune
39	1805	21 October	Captain of the Neptune at Trafalgar
40	1806		Returned to England
40	1806		MP for Sandwich (until 1807)
40	1806	November	Appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty (until March 1807)
41	1807	March	Captain of Royal Yacht, William and Mary
44	1810	31 July	Appointed Rear Admiral of the Blue and appointed to a command in the Mediterranean fleet
44	1810	October	Appointed to a command in the Mediterranean fleet; hoisted his flag in the Ville de Paris
45	1811	March	Flag officer, Port Mahon, Minorca. Flag in the Rodney
46	1812	12 August	Appointed Rear Admiral of the White
47	1813	3 July	Capture of Fiume
48	1814	8 March	Capture of Trieste (Parry states he struck his flag on 6 March and returned to England)
48	1814	4 June	Appointed Rear Admiral of the Red
49	1815	January	Created KCB (Knight Commander of the Bath)
49	1815	1 May	Flag Officer, Channel Islands until 31 August
51	1816	29 November	Created KMT (Knight Commander Order of Maria Theresa), Baron of the Austrian Empire and (KSF) Knight of St Ferdinand and Merit
52	1818	Before 28 May	Created GCB (Knight Grand Cross the Order of the Bath)
52	1818		Appointed commander-in-chief of Mediterranean. Flag in Rochfort, Captain PA Green
53	1819	12 August	Appointed Vice Admiral of the Blue
55	1819	19 December	Death in Naples, while Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean

Nelson was wounded at Tenerife on 24 July 1797 and Fremantle a day later. They both returned to England on the Seahorse under the care of Fremantle's wife of six months, Elizabeth.

Sources

Burke's peerage; BRO; DNB; Parry; Wynne.

Notes

1. Age is approximate where the day and month are not known.