Elisha William Tupper

Name: Elisha William Tupper

Sex: M

Birth: 4 JUN 1797 in Guernsey, Channel Islands

Death: 26 JUN 1826 in Grand Harbour, Malta ---------------------------------------------DIED AGE 29

Note:

Fifth child and third son of (G20 016) Elizabeth Brock Tupper, he was born, 4 July 1797, in Guersney; his godfather was his paternal uncle, William De Vic Tupper.

Like his brother, (G21 034) John Elisha Brock, William was educated at Harrow. He began his naval career on the Victory, of 110 guns, under the care and patronage of James Saumarez (1757-1836), later Lord de Saumarez, an older brother of the husband of the first cousin of William's mother. After the Napoleonic Wars, William graduated from the Naval College at Portsmouth, England.

Described as "rather above the middle height, with a pleasing and intelligent contenence" he was commissioned a lieutenant in the Royal Navy in April 1826. In an attack against Greek pirates in Good Harbour, on Candia, Elisha was fatally wounded on 18 June 1826, and died, 26 June, on board H.M.S. Sybille, in the Grand Harbour, Malta. His remains were interred in the quarantine burial ground, in Malta, where a monument was erected by his captain, John Pechell, C.B., and mess mates.

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E. W. Tupper, died at Malta of his wounds on the 2b'th June, 1826, exactly twenty years after.

The only two British general officers hitherto killed in action in Canada, derived their names from two animals formerly very com- mon in Britain, the wolf and the brock, (the latter being the Saxon name for badger, and still retained in the English language,) and both their christian and surnames consisted of the same number of letters, James Wolfe and Isaac Brock. Both generals fell on the same day of the month, the 13th of September, 1759, and the 13th of October, 1812, and in places whose three first letters were the same, Quebec and Queenstown.

Since the last coincidence was written, we accidentally observed in the Navy List for July, 1831, the following extract : — " Mastiff, 6, Surveying Vessel — Mediterranean.

Lieut. Commanding James Wolfe . . Nov. 22, 1830.

Super. Lieut, and Assist. Surveyor . . T. S. Brock. . . . Nov. 22, 1830."

T. Saumarez Brock, great nephew of Lord De Saumarez, and a near relative of Sir Isaac Brock.

As Captain Isaac Hull captured the Guerriere, so Major-General Isaac Brock captured Brigadier-General Hull, being the two first captures of any consequence made by sea and land in the late war.

Extract of a letter from J. Savery Brock, Esq., dated York, Upper Canada, August 20, 181 7. — " I should also mention that last Satur- day I dined at Fort George, (Niagara,) by the invitation of the gentlemen there and its environs : we were forty-nine in number, and it was the anniversary of the capture of Detroit. I was invited without their remembering the day of the month : it was a curious coincidence."

As two of Lieutenant E. W. Tupper's brothers were drowned, so were two of his brother lieutenants of the Sybille.

The vacancy, to which Lieutenant Tupper was promoted, was occasioned by Lieutenant (now Captain Sir Thomas, Bart.) Thomp- son going home from Marseilles in June, 1825. The name of the officer, who killed his uncle William and godfather in a duel, was also Thompson.

Several coincidences relative to General Wolfe and Sir Isaac Brock, and the latter and Lieutenant Tupper, of the Sybille, have already been mentioned. In Westminster Abbey there is a beau- tiful monument to the memory of General Wolfe, placed on a cross wall erected to receive it. On the other sjde of this wall is another

Father: John Elisha Tupper b: 4 JUN 1764 in Guernsey, Channel Islands

Mother: Elizabeth Brock b: 2 JAN 1767 in Guernsey, Channel Islands

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5.—Lieutenant E. William Tupper, of his majesty's ship Sybille, aged twenty-eight, mortally wounded in her boats, June 18, 1826, in action with a strong band of Greek pirates, near the island of Candia.