Thomas Ussher


Sir Thomas Ussher

Portrait of Sir Thomas Ussher by Andrew Morton
Born1779
Died6 January 1848 (aged 68–69)
Queenstown, Ireland
Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch Royal Navy
Service years1791–1848
RankRear-Admiral
CommandsHM hired armed cutter Nox
HM hired armed cutter Joseph
HM hired armed brig Colpoys
HMS Redwing
HMS Leyden
HMS Hyacinth
HMS Euryalus
HMS Undaunted
HMS Duncan
Commodore-Superintendent, Bermuda Dockyard
Commander-in-Chief at Cork Station
ConflictsFrench Revolutionary Wars
Napoleonic Wars

Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Ussher KCH CB (1779 – 6 January 1848) was an Anglo-Irish officer of the British Royal Navy who served with distinction during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and who in 1814 conveyed Napoleon Bonaparte into exile in Elba. He was nicknamed Undaunted Ussher.