Thomas Huskisson
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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 and was promoted Captain in 1811. After the Napoleonic Wars he became Paymaster of the Navy and a Captain at Greenwich Hospital, where he was buried.
[edit] 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.
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.
