Thomas Huskisson Thomas Huskisson ( 1784 – 1844 ) was an officer in the Royal Navy . Thomas Huskisson was half - brother of William Huskisson , the British politician . Thomas joined the Royal Navy in 1800 . He saw action at the Battle of Trafalgar on HMS Defence in 1805 . In early 1808 Lieutenant Huskisson commissioned the schooner . He had come out to the Jamaica station on , and once there Vice - Admiral Sir B . S . Rowley appointed him to " Fleur de la Mer " and put him to cruising off San Domingo . There he rescued a gentleman who had fallen afoul of Henri Christophe . Huskisson also visited Cartagena , where he was able to intercede and win the release of seven persons who had accompanied General Miranda ’ s British - supported and unsuccessful attempted invasion of the Captaincy General of Venezuela in 1806 . Huskisson was promoted to Commander on 19 January 1809 , but did not find out about his promotion until May , at which time he transferred to command the " Cruizer " - class brig - sloop . On 16 October , " Pelorus " and discovered a privateer schooner moored under the St Mary battery . Fire from " Hazard " and " Pelorus " destroyed the battery while boats from both ships boarded the privateer . Her crew had abandoned the vessel but fired from the shore where two field pieces joined them . Unable to move the prize , the British blew her up . The privateer was armed with one long 18 - pounder on a pivot carriage and two swivels ; the British estimated that she had had a crew of 80 - 100 men . The action cost the British 15 men dead and wounded , with " Pelorus " accounting for two dead and six wounded , one mortally . In February 1810 " Pelorus " participated in the capture of Guadeloupe . In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp " Guadaloupe " to any surviving crewmen from that campaign that wished to claim it . Huskisson was promoted Captain in 1811 and took command of the 22 - gun " Laurel " - class post ship . In June 1815 Huskisson recommissioned the frigate . On 7 July she captured the French vessels " Aimable Antoinette " and " Marie " . From 25 August 1818 to end 1820 , " Euryalus " was in the West Indies . She served as the flagship in the Leeward Islands from November 1819 to May 1820 , and then at Jamaica from June to December . Later Huskisson became Paymaster of the Navy and a Captain at Greenwich Hospital , where he was buried . His memoirs were published as " Eyewitness to Trafalgar " edited by David Beaumont Ellison . ( Ellisons Editions 1984 - place of publication unknown ) . ISBN 0 - 946092 - 09 - 5 . Family history . Thomas ' half - brother was William Huskisson MP , who married Emily Milbanke , the youngest daughter of Admiral Mark Milbanke , the commander - in - chief at Portsmouth . Admiral Milbanke assisted his entry into the Navy . His brother John Huskisson was commissioned in 1798 into the Army and served with the 51st Regiment in Ceylon , while his other brother George Huskisson was commissioned in the Royal Marines . In 1813 Thomas Huskisson married Elizabeth Wedge ( 1788 – 1873 ) , daughter of Francis Wedge Esq of Forton , Staffordshire , and had 6 children , including William Milbanke Huskisson , of the Foreign Office and John Huskisson , a Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Marines .