Charles Marsh Schomberg Sir Charles Marsh Schomberg ( 1779 , Dublin – 1835 ) was the youngest son of the naval officer Alexander Schomberg and Arabella Susannah Chalmers , and followed his father ' s profession and joined the Royal Navy . He served during the Napoleonic Wars . Later in life , he was appointed the lieutenant - governor of Dominica . Early career . His first naval service was as his father ' s servant on the yacht of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , , under his father ' s command , and lasted from 1788 to 1793 , when he served under Captain Thomas Louis on and the 74 - gun . On 30 April 1795 he was promoted to lieutenant , and was transferred to the , but returned to the " Minotaur " in August 1796 , serving on her at the battle of the Nile and in subsequent operations on the coast of Italy and Spain ( commanding her boats on 3 September 1800 , under Captain James Hillyar of the , in cutting out two Spanish corvette s at Barcelona ) . For his command of the boats during this action he was moved into the ( 80 guns ) , serving as Lord Keith ' s flag lieutenant throughout the Egyptian campaign ) , and was in August 1801 put in command of during her part in shipping French PoWs out of Egypt . He was rewarded for all these services with the Turkish order of the Crescent . Promotions to Commander & Captain . On 29 April 1802 he was promoted commander , and captain on 6 April 1803 . In the latter post he was appointed to command the 54 - gun . She was stationed at Malta until spring 1807 , when she was decommissioned , on which Charles returned to England for the first time in ten years . In November 1808 Schomberg was appointed to be Sir William Sidney Smith ' s flag captain on ( 120 guns ) , travelling with him to Lisbon where Charles - remaining flag captain - moved to command his old ship HMS " Foudrayant " ( from 6 June 1809 to January 1810 ) and continued to Rio de Janeiro . Smith in January 1809 appointed Charles to the ( 50 guns ) but , when the Admiralty sent out another captain for that ship , Charles then returned to England . He arrived in April 1810 and two months later was appointed to the frigate ( 36 guns ) , which he fitted out and sailed to the Cape of Good Hope . From there he was detached as senior officer at Mauritius . The Battle of Tamatave . Schomberg had command during the Action of 20 May 1811 , when his ship , HMS " Astraea " , two other frigates HMS " Phoebe " , HMS " Galatea " and the brig - sloop HMS " Racehorse " met and defeated a force of three large French frigates " Renommée " , " Clorinde " and " Néréide " . The French ships were bringing reinforcements to Mauritius ( unaware of its capture by the British ) . One French frigate , the " Renommée " ( 40 guns ) , surrendered to Schomberg ' s ship ; one , the " Néréide " , escaped only to surrender at Tamatave in Madagascar a few days later ; and the third , " Clorinde " , escaped for good . The Battle of Tamatave marked the end of the final French attempt to operate in the Indian Ocean during the Napoleonic Wars . Nearly four decades later the battle was among the actions recognised by a clasp attached to the Naval General Service Medal , awarded upon application to all British participants still living in 1847 . Later career . In April 1813 Schomberg took over command of ( 38 guns ) , sailing to Brazil and from there to Portsmouth as escort to a large merchant convoy , arriving at Spithead in March 1814 . On 4 June 1815 he was made a CB . From 1820 to 1824 he commanded ( 80 guns ) in the Mediterranean , as Sir Graham Moore ' s flag captain , and from 1828 to 1832 flew a broad pennant in as commodore and commander - in - chief at the Cape of Good Hope . On 21 September 1832 he was made a KCH , and also received the order of the Tower and Sword from the Prince of Brazil . Appointment as lieutenant - governor of Dominica . In February 1833 he was appointed lieutenant - governor of Dominica and died unmarried on 2 January 1835 on board , flagship of Sir George Cockburn , anchored in the island ' s Carlisle Bay . He was interred in St Paul ' s Chapel on the day of his death . Sources . city