John Moutray

They paid no attention to his orders, and by daylight that day a combined Franco-Spanish fleet had captured the bulk of the convoy.

It was a blow to British commerce, and especially to the forces in the West Indies, which lost a vast quantity of military stores.

[5] He went on to become the Commissioner of the naval dockyard in the Leeward Islands from April 1784 until 1785, where he, and particularly Mary Moutray his wife,[6] became friends with Cuthbert Collingwood and Horatio Nelson.

John and Mary's daughter Katherine (aka Kate) married the Thomas de Lacy archdeacon of Meath in 1806.

[5] Buried at Bath Abbey, His epitaph reads: Under this place are deposited the remains of John Moutray Esq of Roscobie in Fifeshire in the Kingdom of Scotland twenty eight years a post captain and late a Commissioner of His Majesty's Navy in Antigua.

In his public character he was valuable to his country for his long and faithful services and universally beloved for the integrity of his principles and the distinguished sincerity of his heart.