1789-1837. Captain in the Royal Navy and friend of Richard Chandos, the second Duke.

• Born 1789
• 1810 to 1814: Lieutenant on board the Alceste. Imprisoned by the Italians, escaped and captured in the Netherlands. Imprisoned in France, escaped in 1814 when the allies entered France. He returned to Britain from the Netherlands in the Collosus (details).
• 1817: Returns to Britain from Italy in December (BRO D-FR/32/12/15; 1817/12/25)
• 1818: In Paris in May "messing about" (HEH STG Correspondence Box 5 (15); 1818/05/01). In Florence ten days later (BRO D-FR/32/14/14; 1818/05/28 ). Visits family of Thomas Fremantle at Pisa , returning to Britain at the end of May. Asks Fremantle for help in obtaining a posting (BRO D-FR/32/14/19; 1818/07/10). In August travelling again, in Brussels with Richard Chandos, who asks Fremantle to assist with Jervoise getting a ship and requesting that William Henry Fremantle "exerts himself with Lord Melville" (BRO D-FR/32/13/10; 1818/09/04 ).
• 1819: In Britain (HEH STG Correspondence Box 52 (1); 1819/09/19)
• 1821: Arrives in London on Admiralty leave (HEH STG Correspondence Box 5 (17); 1821/02/19)
• 1822: Commander of the Despatch
• 1823: Correspondence between Charles Watkins Wynne and Richard Temple about promotion for Jervoise, Ashfield and Percy Grace:

The observations which I made in my last letter upon your disavowal of any concern in the applications of Ld Chandos in favor of Jervoise & Grace were I assure you not in the remotest degree suggested to me by Lord Melville, but were only what I myself should feel if after I had given a Cadetship to Ld Lowther Lord Lonsdale should press immediately for another stating that he had as yet received nothing.
Believe me that this dose no proceed from any indifference to your success in any objects which you may wish for, but from anxiety that you should not use an argument which I really think untenable & which might be cited invidiously against you. Lord M. has never spoken of the employment of Jervoise & Grace as an excuse for his not having appointed Wilcock when he called upon me to inform me to inform me of the scrapes they had got into which will probably remove them both from the navy, he mentioned them both as protected by you. I then told him they were friends of Lord Chandos’s & not of yours which he professed to be ignorant of.
With respect to Lieut Ashfield I return his papers, not understanding whether you have yet made any application for him. I should myself have thought that having been made Lieut t in 1820 it was rather early in time of Peace to press for further promotion but this is a point which you can judge upon better than I can. (HEH STG Correspondence Box 90 (52); 1823/06/11)

• 1824: Reference to Captain Jervoise (BRO D-FR/46/11/99; 1824/05/06)
• 1824: Chandos trying to get Jervoise a ship or promotion?

The Duke of York has sent for me on Saturday, he is strongly engaged in Jervoise’s affair (Richard Chandos to Mary Campbell. HEH STG Correspondence Box 52 (06); 1824/05/06)

The D of York has behaved so openly with me, and has treated me so friendly that were he tomorrow on the throne I think Jervoise certain of any thing he could want. I was with him two hours. When we meet I have much to tell you (Chandos to Mary Campbell. HEH STG Correspondence Box 52 (06); 1824/05/12)

• 1825: I write "to tell you that Jervoise has got his Ship at last the Pandora" (Chandos to Mary Campbell. HEH STG Correspondence Box 52 (07); 1825/07/31)
• 1828: Promoted to Post Captain
• 1828: Captain of the Success. In November 1829, the Success ran aground near the Cockburn Sound, Australia (details)
• 1830: Sailed for Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
• 1831: Sailed for Bombay, Success to be broken up or sold. Jervoise offered command of Calcutta but declines and sails to Britain with crew of 100 soldiers from the 1st or Royal regiment and a few sailors. Arrived at Spithead on 25 November 1831. In India, he travelled to Poonah where he obtained a statue of Vishnu which he presented to Chandos on his return.
• A bust of Jervoise was kept at Stowe and sold in the 1848 sale
• Died 6 December 1837
• His memorial is in Bath Abbey. It was erected by his brother, George Gosling (can anyone offer an explanation for the difference of surname Jervoise/Golsing?).

Sacred to the memory of
William Clarke Jervoise Esqr.
A Captain in the British Navy
who departed this life Decr 6th 1837
aged 48.
Abounding in all those qualities that constitute a Christian and a gentleman,
he fulfilled the various obligations of a son and a brother,
less as a duty, than as a labour of love.
kind, affectionate and generous,
friendship with him
was more than a name,
it was a tie he hallowed,
a band he never broke.
possessing the abilities of a seaman
in conjunction with the distinguishing
characteristics of an officer.
he was equally an honor to his country
and an ornament to his profession.
This monument is erected
as a tribute to his worth and excellence
and in testimony
to the love and affection of his brother
(Captain George Gosling of the British Navy)
and the lasting sorrow
of his afflicted relatives and friends