William Stanhope Badcock

Vice-Admiral William Stanhope Lovell, KH (born William Stanhope Badcock; 1788 – 20 May 1859) was a Royal Navy officer and a descendant of Sir Salathiel Lovell.

He was the eldest son of Thomas Stanhope Badcock of Little Missenden Abbey, Buckinghamshire and Maplethorpe Hall, Lincolnshire.[1]

He served under Lord Nelson at Trafalgar in 1805 and was present at the capture of Washington in 1814.[2]

He was married, in 1822, to Selina, daughter of Sir Henry Harpur Crewe of Calke Abbey, Derbyshire.

He and his elder brother, Lovell Benjamin Badcock, changed their name of Badcock to Lovell by sign-manual in 1840.

References

  1. ^ Burke, John: A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain
  2. ^ Burke, John: A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain
  • O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Lovell, William Stanhope" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.


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