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Birth Place

England, UK

Biography

sketcher, naval officer and politician, was born on 7 November 1846, son of Francis John Savile Foljambe, third Earl of Liverpool, and Selina Charlotte, Viscountess Milton. He served as lieutenant under Sir William Saltonstall Wiseman on HMS Curaçoa when the ship was in the Pacific in 1864-67. His Three Years on the Australian Station (privately published, London 1868) has a preface by his mother, who wrote: 'In order to obtain a small fund towards purchasing an organ for St John’s Church at Worksop, I have allowed some copies of my son’s Log, or Diary in Australia and New Zealand, &c. to be sold, as I venture to hope that there are some in this neighbourhood [Osberton] who, from their acquaintance with him and his family, will readily purchase it, and may derive some pleasure in reading the perils and adventures he met with as well as in possessing his maps and drawings’. The book contains six full-page plates after Foljambe’s drawings, among them Sydney Harbour. Homeward Bound which depicts the Curaçoa about to leave Port Jackson on the afternoon of 24 August 1867 when, wrote Foljambe, they departed 'in fine style for a “Homeward Bounder”, amidst Cheers from everybody, crowds assembled on every Battery, and every point to see us go, and the harbour was covered with boats of all sizes’. A number of Foljambe’s vignettes were re-used as illustrations to Julius L. Brenchley’s Jottings during the Cruise of H.M.S. Curaçoa among the South Sea Islands in 1865 (London 1873), while sketches sent back from New Zealand were engraved in 1866 for the Illustrated London News . The Mitchell Library holds his small booklet, bound in linen with an ink profile drawing of Curaçoa on the cover, full of pencil, watercolour and ink sketches of naval signals. Mostly coloured thirty-eight pages of signals in use in Australia and New Zealand are included. On 22 July 1869 Foljambe married Louisa Blanche Howard; they had two sons before she died in 1871. Susan Louisa Cavendish became his second wife in 1877 and there were five children of this marriage. Foljambe represented North Nottinghamshire in the British Parliament in 1880-85 and Nottinghamshire (Mansfield Division) in 1885-92. The following year he was created Baron Hawkesbury of Haselbech, County of Nottingham. He was lord-in-waiting to the Queen until 1895. Writers: Staff Writer Date written: 1992 Last updated: 2011

Born

b. 7 November 1846

Summary

A naval officer who served in the Pacific 1864-1867 and published an account of the perils and adventures he faced complete with maps and drawings. He was later made a Baron and served as lord-in-waiting to Queen Victoria.

Gender

Male

Died

c.1905

Age at death

59