Charles Fremantle

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Admiral Sir Charles Howe Fremantle (1 June 1800 - 25 May 1869) was a Captain of the British Royal Navy. The City of Fremantle in Western Australia is named after him.

Early life

He was the son of Admiral Thomas Fremantle, and a nephew of William Henry Fremantle. His elder brother was Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe. His middle name Howe is a consequence of his birth date, the anniversary of Lord Howe's victory over the French at the Glorious First of June in 1794.

According to Graeme Henderson, former director of the Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle was charged with raping a 15-year-old girl in April 1826. To avoid a scandal, his family paid off witnesses and leant on the judiciary.<ref name="d'Anger 2007">d'Anger, Jenny. "Captain Cad: Fremantle a 'sadistic rapist'", Fremantle Herald, 2007-08-25, p. 1.  A few weeks later he was promoted to captain, given command of the 26 gun frigate HMS Challenger, and sent to claim the west coast of Australia for the United Kingdom.

Career

HMS Challenger was the first ship to arrive in a fleet of 3 ships sent out from Britain to establish a colony at the Swan River in Western Australia.

After arriving in Cockburn Sound and landing on Garden Island a week earlier, on May 2 1829 he took formal possession of the whole of the western coast of Australia in the name of King George IV.

On 30 May, Lieutenant Governor elect Captain James Stirling arrived on the Parmelia and on 17 June a proxy proclamation was read by Stirling confirming the earlier proclamation. He left the Swan River Colony on 25 August 1829 heading towards the British Army base of Trincomalee, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) where he was based the next couple of years.

While he was there he visited many locations including a town called Kowloon which he recommended as a good site for a British settlement. The British government agreed and Hong Kong was settled in 1841.

Fremantle was only in Ceylon for a couple of years. On his way back to England in September 1832 he visited the Swan River Colony for a week, but never returned after that.

After a decade or so he next went on a voyage to the Caribbean and Mediterranean. Shortly after that, he served as rear-admiral controlling with great distinction the entire naval transport service for the Crimean War from Balaklava (a city in the Ukraine).

In July 1858 he was appointed to the command of the Channel Squadron and eventually became an admiral.

Personal life

He married Isabella Wedderburn on 8 October, 1836. They had 3 children:
  • Emily Caroline Alexander (14 April, 1838 - 10 February, 1929). Married Reverend CL Alexander, Rector of Sturton-by-Bridge, Derbyshire.
  • Celia Elizabeth McNeil (8 October, 1840 - 15 February, 1929). Married Canon EA McNeile, Vicar of St Pauls, Princes Park, Liverpool.
  • Louisa Frances Fremantle (23 February, 1843 - 20 March, 1909).

Later life

He died in 1869 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.

References

  • Appleyard, R. T. and Manford, Toby (1979). The Beginning: European Discovery and Early Settlement of Swan River Western Australia, University of Western Australia Press. ISBN 0-85564-146-0.


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NAMEFremantle, Charles Howe
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SHORT DESCRIPTIONRoyal Navy captain
DATE OF BIRTHJune 1 1800
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DATE OF DEATHMay 25 1869
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Fremantle
Perth, Western Australia

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Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle, GCB, GCH (20 November 1765 – 19 December 1819) was a very successful naval officer in the Royal Navy whose list of accolades includes action in three separate fleet actions, a close personal friendship with Lord Nelson and a Baronage
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Sir William Henry Fremantle, GCH, PC (28 December 1766–19 October 1850) was a British politician and the uncle of the 1st Baron Cottesloe.

He was the brother of Admiral Thomas Fremantle, and the uncle of Charles Fremantle.
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Thomas Francis Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe, PC (11 March 1798 – 3 December 1890), known between 1821 and 1874 as Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle, Bt, was a British politician.
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Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (8 March, 1726 – 5 August, 1799) was a British admiral.

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Howe was born in London, the second son of Emanuel Scrope Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe, who died as governor of Barbados in March 1735, and of Charlotte, a daughter of
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Western Australian Museum is the main museum for the state of Western Australia. Established in 1891, the museum is situated in the heart of Perth's cultural precinct in Northbridge. The museum falls under the responsibility of the Western Australia Department of Culture and Arts.
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The Fremantle Herald is the banner of a periodical published in the city of Fremantle, Western Australia. It was founded in February 1867 by James Pearce, published again from 1913-1915 and relaunched in November 1989, from the same building as the original.
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Swan River estuary flows through the city of Perth, in the south west of Western Australia. Its lower reaches are relatively wide and deep, with few constrictions, while the upper reaches are usually quite narrow and shallow.
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Western Australia

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Cockburn Sound is an inlet of the Indian Ocean on the coast of Western Australia. It extends from the south of the mouth of the Swan River at Fremantle for about 25 km to Point Peron near Rockingham.
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Garden Island is a slender island about ten kilometres long and one and a half kilometres wide, lying about five kilometres off the Western Australian coast ().
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Admiral Sir James Stirling RN (January 28 1791–April 23 1865) was a British marine officer and colonial administrator. He was the first Governor of Western Australia (1828–38) and on his own initiative signed Britain's first limited treaty with Japan in 1854.
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The Parmelia was a barque that was used to transport the first civilian officials and settlers of the Swan River Colony to Western Australia in 1829.

Parmelia was built in Quebec, Canada in 1825, and registered on 31 May of that year.
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