A Good Man in Every Sense of the Word: The reputation of Admiral Robert Man

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Notes

1 Quoted without reference in Pinell, Country House History, 62–3.

2 Clowes, The Royal Navy, vol. 4, 286–9.

3 Nicolas (ed.), Dispatches and Letters, n2, 256.

4 The amount was fixed in 1679 and was still being paid at this rate in 1842: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/office-holders/vol4/pp18-31; Parliamentary Papers, vol. 31, Accounts and Papers (London, 1843), Pay and Allowances of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, p. 5 under Admiralty Commission.

5 For example, ‘a gossiping Board’, Corbett (ed.), Private Papers, vol. 2, 447–8.

6 The National Archives, ADM 3/121–6, Minutes of the Admiralty Board 1798–1801.

7 James, Naval History, 257.

8 Blackmore Warfare, 165.

9 Letter to William Locker, Lieutenant Governor of the Royal Greenwich Hospital in Nicolas (ed.), Dispatches and Letters, 50–1.

10 Man to Spencer 7 March, 21 Apr. 1796, Corbett (ed.), Private Papers, vol. 2, 12–15, 22–3.

11 Man to Spencer 2 Jul. 1796, ibid., 28–9.

12 Man to Spencer 25 Jul. 1796, ibid., 39–41.

13 Spencer to Grenville 18 May 1796 Corbett (ed.), Private Papers, vol. 1, 259–61

14 Corbett (ed.), Private Papers, vol. 2, 25–32. Spencer was more concerned with the threat from Richery and remained non-committal re. Spain. Spencer to Man 13 and 17 Jul. 1796, ibid., 34–6.

15 Nelson to Collingwood 18 Aug. 1796. Hughes (ed.) Private Correspondence, 75–6.

16 Jervis to Spencer 11 Nov. 1796, Corbett (ed.), Private Papers, vol. 2, 71–2. Jervis to Spencer 2 Dec. 1796, ruing the opportunity lost through Man's return home and also Parker's decision to look for Richery to the West Indies, ibid., 73–4.

17 Jervis to Spencer 23 Nov. 1795, 27 Jul. 1796, Aug. 1796, 11 Nov. 1796, Corbett (ed.), Private Papers, vol. 2, 5, 41–3, 47–8, 71–2.

18 Tucker, Memoirs of the Earl of St Vincent, vol. 1, 218.

19 Nelson to Collingwood 18 Aug. 1796. Hughes (ed.) Private Correspondence; Nelson to Sir Gilbert Elliott 27 Aug. 1796. Nicolas (ed.), Dispatches and Letters, vol. 2, 255–7.

20 Nelson to Fanny 22 Nov. 1796. Naish (ed.) Nelson's Letters, 308.

21 See for example, Spencer to George III 25 Oct. 1796 and Grenville to Dundas 15 Nov. 1796, Corbett (ed.), Private Papers, vol. 1, 319–20 and 335–7.

22 Even so, a later and cordial letter from St Vincent to Man suggests some thawing of opinion. Smith (ed.) Letters of Admiral of the Fleet the Earl St Vincent, vol. 1, 330.

23 Ibid., xxi–xxii.

24 Corbett (ed.), Private Papers, vol. 2, 3.

25 Richmond (ed.), Private Papers, vol. 3, 216–8.

26 Man to Spencer 9 Oct. 1796, Corbett (ed.), Private Papers, vol. 2, 58–60.

27 Man to Spencer 30 Dec. 1796, ibid., 86–8.

28 Man to Spencer 9 Oct. 1796, ibid., 58–60.

29 Man to Spencer 4 Jan. 1797, ibid., 89–91.

30 Spencer to Hyde Parker 22 Sept. 1796. Richmond (ed.), Private Papers,vol. 3, 232–3.

31 Nepean to Man 2 Jan. 1797. Tucker, Memoirs of the Earl of St Vincent, vol. 1, 216.

32 Spencer to Man 15 Jul. 1796 promising to make arrangements for Man's return; 25 Oct. 1796 stating that Vice-Admiral Thompson had been sent to relieve him, Corbett (ed.), Private Papers of George, vol. 2, 34–5, 66–7.

33 George III to Spencer 25 Oct. 1796, Corbett (ed.), Private Papers, vol. 2, 320.

34 Reading Mercury, 1 May 1797; Kentish Gazette, 23 Feb. 1798.