Admiral cuthbert collingwood biography definition

Born on 26 September in a house on The Side, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he was the oldest of three sons of a bankrupt trader, Cuthbert Collingwood, and of his wife Milcah Dobson.

The Collingwoods were descended from an established family that had fallen on hard times.

Collingwood was educated at his hometown grammar school from , and in August , together with his brother, Wilfred, he entered as a volunteer aboard the frigate Shannon 36 in the Mediterranean, commanded by his maternal uncle, Richard Braithwaite, with whom he served until the peace of He was subsequently employed under Braithwaite aboard the Gibraltar 24 from early through to March of the following year, and on the Liverpool 32 from the autumn of until the spring of , both vessels being based on the Newfoundland station, with the latter later serving in the Mediterranean.

In March he joined the guard-ship Lenox 74 at Portsmouth, commanded by a distant relative, Captain Robe