William Nosworthy Churchill

[2] In 1815 at the age of 19 he went to the Ottoman Empire, possibly as a foreign correspondent for the English Morning Herald newspaper,[1] and settled in Smyrna (İzmir).

In 1824 he married Beatrix Belhomme (1803–1895)[3] daughter of a French merchant, with whom he had 11 children[4] including Alfred Black (1826–1870), the explorer and diplomat Henry Adrian (1828–1886), and the artist William.

[5] A grandson, William Sydney Churchill, was a British-Ottoman Gendarmerie officer who served in Egypt, Crete, and Turkey during the Ottoman Empire.

[7] In 1836 while out hunting in Kadıköy, a large residential district on the Asian shore of Constantinople, he accidentally shot and wounded the son of Necati Efendi, a civil servant holding a high position in the Title Deed Office.

[10][6] Ceride-i Havadis published foreign news items translated by Churchill and his staff, and was the first and only semi-private paper in the Ottoman Empire until 1860.