SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS 330
NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Algiers (J. L. Clayton, Midshipman) original ribbon, minor marks, otherwise, good very fine £2500-3000
John Lloyd Clayton was born in August 1796, the third son of Sir William Clayton, Bt., of Harleyford, Buckinghamshire.
Entering the Royal Navy as a First Class Volunteer aboard H.M.S. Poictiers in April 1810, he served on the Home and American Stations until removing to the Tonnant in early 1814, in which period he was appointed Midshipman.
Other brief appointments having followed, including service in the yacht Royal Sovereign under Captain Sir J. P. Beresford on the occasion that Louis XVIII was conveyed to Calais, Clayton joined the Ajax on the Mediterranean Station in February 1815.
Removing thence to the Queen Charlotte, flagship of Lord Exmouth, he was present at the battle of Algiers on 27 August 1816, and ‘received, on the quarter-deck, the thanks of his chief for his gallantry in sinking a burning vessel which had been rapidly approaching the flagship’.
Shortly thereafter returning to appointments in royal yachts, Clayton served under Captain Sir Edward Owen in the Royal Sovereign, in which vessel he escorted the Queen Dowager, the Dukes and Duchesses of Kent, Cumberland, Cambridge and Hesse Homburg, and the Grand Duke Michael of Russia, and afterwards in the Royal George under Captain Hon. Charles Paget, and was promoted to Lieutenant in November 1818.
This appears to have been his final seagoing appointment, and in later life he presided as a Magistrate in Middlesex and for the liberties of Westminster. Clayton, who married Louisa Sophia in April 1832, died at his residence in Portman Square, London in October 1855, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery.
Sold with a fine pair of portrait miniatures of Lieutenant Clayton and his wife, Louisa Sophia, 10cm. by 12cm., in larger matching wooden frames with gilt corner decoration; together with his Royal Naval Officer’s sword, 1827 pattern, the 76cm. pipe-backed blade lightly etched with crowned fouled anchor, etc., regulation half-basket guard, lion’s head pommel, fish-skin covered grip bound with copper wire, complete with black leather scabbard with three mounts, blade rust damaged and mounts worn overall.
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NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1793-1840, 2 clasps, 1 June 1794, Trafalgar (William Osborne) nearly extremely fine
£4500-5500 Ex Glendining, July 1909; Baldwin, February 1954, and Spink, May 2003.
William Osborne served as a Landsman in H.M.S. Impregnable at the defeat of the French fleet on 1 June 1794, and as Carpenter’s Crew in H.M.S. Revenge at Trafalgar on 21 October 1805. Two other men of this name appear on the Admiralty roll, one for the Nile and another for Trafalgar.
William Osborne was born in Hartford, Devon, and served as a Landsman in H. M.S. Impregnable, 98 during the fleet action that became known as "The Glorious First of June" - the defeat of the French fleet. A total of seven large Naval Gold Medals and 15 small Naval Gold medals were awarded for this action. Osborne served as Carpenter’s Crew in H.M.S. Revenge, 74 during the major fleet action off Cape Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.
‘On 1 June both fleets formed line of battle about 6 miles apart. Impregnable, 98 was the eighth ship from windward. In the resulting action Impregnable was much damaged in her sails and rigging, losing her three top-gallant masts and fore-topsail-yard. Her master, David Caird and six seamen were killed; Lieut. William Butler, Mr Patterlo, boatswain, and 22 seamen wounded, the Lieutenant mortally. (Ref. Age of Nelson)
At Trafalgar Revenge ‘was in the lee column. In attempting to pass through the enemy’s line and secure an advantageous position athwart the hawser of the French Aigle, she fouled the latter’s jib-boom, and while the ships were interlocked delivered a couple of broadsides into the Frenchman’s bows. Then, standing on, she was in the act of hauling up on the port tack, when a tremendous fire was poured into her lee quarter by the Spanish Principe de Asturias. Three two-deckers also hemmed her in, and greatly punished her until they were driven off by the approach of other British vessels. Her injuries in the battle were in consequence severe and her losses heavy, the latter amounting to twenty-eight killed and fifty-one wounded, including her captain. Her bowsprit, three lower masts, maintop mast, and gaff, were badly injured. She received nine shots below the copper; her stern, transoms, and timbers, and several beams, knees, riders, and iron standards, were very much damaged, and so was her hull generally. She had several chain plates shot away, several of her lower deck ports destroyed, and three of her guns dismounted.’ (Ref. The Trafalgar Roll)
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