Sir Richard Strachan, 6th Baronet
Sir Richard John Strachan, 6th Baronet GCB was a British officer of the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, eventually rising to the rank of admiral. Sir Dicky, as his friends referred to him, was the last Chief of Clan Strachan. The Baronetcy became dormant in 1854 as he died without male heir.
Strachan on HMS San Domingo, conducting the bombardment of Flushing during the Walcheren Campaign of 1809
The Battle of Cape Ortegal. Strachan completes the destruction of the French fleet.
Strachan (far left) and the Grand Duke of Middleburg or the Late Ld C-t-m and Commodore Cur-ts paying their respects on their return from the Glorious Expedition (caricature)
Admiral Sir William Cornwallis, was a Royal Navy officer. He was the brother of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British commander at the siege of Yorktown. Cornwallis took part in a number of decisive battles including the siege of Louisbourg in 1758, when he was 14, and the Battle of the Saintes but is best known as a friend of Lord Nelson and as the commander-in-chief of the Channel Fleet during the Napoleonic Wars. He is depicted in the Horatio Hornblower novel, Hornblower and the Hotspur.
Admiral William Cornwallis after a Portrait by Daniel Gardner, Published in the Naval Chronicle
Newlands Manor, Hampshire, Milford, family seat, c. 1900
Battle of Grenada 1781 Jean-François Hue
The Battle of the Saintes, 12 April 1782: surrender of the Ville de Paris by Thomas Whitcombe, painted 1783, shows Hood's HMS Barfleur, centre, attacking the French flagship Ville de Paris, right