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Admiral Sir George Digby Morant {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB}} (8 August 1837 – 13 February 1921) was an admiral in the British Royal Navy.

Early life and family

Morant was born in Ireland 8 August 1837 - there also being record of his baptism in the Parish of Farnborough, Hampshire on 20 January 1838, with parents George and Lydia Morant ^[1]- the elder son of George Morant, of Shirley House, Carrickmacross, and Lydia Hemphill, daughter of John Hemphill, of Rathkeany, Co. Tipperary.^[2] Morant's father served in the Grenadier Guards, and was a justice of the peace.^[3]^[4] The senior line of the Morant family (the elder George Morant being grandson of the former head of the family) lived at Brockenhurst, Hampshire, and claimed Norman descent tracing back from William de Moraunt, of Moraunt's Court, in Kent, who was high sheriff of that county in 1337 and 1338, during the reign of King Edward III. They were later resident in Jamaica, and owned plantations there.^[5]^[6]

Morant married, in 1866, Sophia Georgina Eyres, younger daughter of Colonel George William Eyres, of the Grenadier Guards. Lady Morant died in 1911, and he died ten years later, on 13 February 1921. Morant was survived by three sons and four daughters.^[7] One of Morant's sons, Edgar Robert Morant, D.S.O. (1874-1931) also served as a captain of the Royal Navy.^[8] One daughter, Sybil Mary Morant, married the publisher James Blackwood (1878-1951), while another, Aileen Morant (d 1969), married another Royal Navy officer, Captain Llewellyn Evan Hugh Llewellyn (1879-1970)

Naval career

Educated at Burney′s Royal Naval Academy, Gosport, Morant entered the Royal Navy in 1850. He was a Signal Midshipman on board the steam sloop Tenasserin during the Second Anglo-Burmese War 1852, and took part in the action and capture of the city of Bassein (mentioned in Despatches 20 May 1852^[9]). As a Mate, he served in the Crimean War (1853-1856), for which he received the Crimea Medal (two clasps)^[3] and in April 1858 the Imperial Order of Medjidie, 5th Class, from the Sultan of Turkey^[10]

He was promoted Commander in February 1866,^[11] Captain in February 1873,^[12] Rear-Admiral before 1895, and Vice-Admiral in June 1895.^[13] He served as Inspector of Irish Lights 1875–78, appointed Commodore-in-Charge, Hong Kong February 1884 to February 1887. Commodore-Superintendent at Pembroke Dockyard, and served as Admiral-Superintendent, Chatham Dockyard 1892–95.^[3]

In March 1901 he was promoted to Admiral,^[14] but he retired on his own request in May the same year,^[15] and was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the King′s Birthday Honours List the following November^[16]

During his career he commanded the following ships: Grasshopper, Enterprise, Cockatrice, Valorous, Achilles, Victor Emmanuel (as Commodore), and received war medals for operations in Burma, the Baltic, Crimea, and China.^[3]

The controversial Australian war criminal Breaker Morant claimed to be his illegitimate son, but this appears to be a fabrication.

National Portrait Gallery

References

1. ^ Ancestry.com. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
2. ^A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Sir Bernard Burke, Harrison, Pall Mall, 1871, vol. I, pg 610, 'Hemphill of Rathkeany'
3. ^¹²³MORANT, Adm. Sir George Digby’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 13 Nov 2012
4. ^A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Sir Bernard Burke, Harrison, Pall Mall, 1863, vol. II, pg 1034, 'Morant of Shirley House'
5. ^http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/5593675.Morant_heir_dies_suddenly__aged_36/?ref=arc
6. ^A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Sir Bernard Burke, Harrison, Pall Mall, 1863, vol. II, pg 1034, 'Morant of Brokenhurst', 'Morant of Shirley House'
7. ^Burke's Landed Gentry 1952, pg 1817, 'Morant of Brokenhurst'
8. ^MORANT, Capt. Edgar Robert’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 13 Nov 2012
9. ^{{London Gazette |issue=21340 |date=17 July 1852 |page=2007}}
10. ^{{London Gazette |issue=22122 |date=3 April 1858 |page=1735}}
11. ^{{London Gazette |issue=23068 |date=9 February 1866 |page=773}}
12. ^{{London Gazette |issue=23948 |date=14 February 1873 |page=637}}
13. ^{{London Gazette |issue=26637 |date=25 June 1895 |page=3592}}
14. ^{{London Gazette |issue=27297 |date=22 March 1901 |page=2021}}
15. ^{{London Gazette |issue=27318 |date=28 May 1901 |page=3636}}
16. ^{{London Gazette |issue=27376 |date=12 November 1901 |page=7291}}