1. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Provo William Parry Wallis, was a Royal Navy officer.
15 Facts About Provo Wallis
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Provo Wallis went on to be Senior Naval Officer, Gibraltar, and then Commander-in-Chief on the South East Coast of America Station.
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Provo Wallis was promoted to senior flag officer positions and was still carried on the active list at 100 years old when he died.
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Provo Wallis was the son of Provo Featherstone Wallis, a clerk at the Royal Naval Dockyard, Halifax, Nova Scotia, by his wife Elizabeth Lawlor.
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Provo Wallis benefited from his father's desire to secure a naval career for his son.
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Provo Wallis was freed a week later when Ville de Milan was itself captured by the Royal Navy: he transferred to Ville de Milan which now became a British ship.
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Provo Wallis served as the temporary captain of the British frigate for a period of exactly six days as she made her way back to Halifax, Nova Scotia, with Chesapeake flying the Blue Ensign above the Stars and Stripes, for which action he was promoted to commander on 9 July 1813.
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Provo Wallis earned the thanks of the people of Veracruz in Mexico when he protected them from French bombardment in Winter 1838 during the Pastry War.
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Provo Wallis was promoted to vice-admiral on 10 September 1857, appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on 18 May 1860 and promoted to admiral on 2 March 1863.
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Provo Wallis was appointed Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom on 17 July 1869 and Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom on 12 February 1870.
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Provo Wallis was advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on 24 May 1873 and promoted to Admiral of the Fleet on 11 December 1875.
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Provo Wallis died at his country home in Funtington in West Sussex on 13 February 1892 and was buried in St Mary's churchyard at Funtington.
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Provo Wallis was only a few months short of his 101st birthday with a combined service of 96 years from the time his name first appeared on the books of a Royal Navy ship.
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Provo Wallis was the last survivor of the action between HMS Shannon and USS Chesapeake, and on his death, four admirals below him on the active list were able to gain immediate promotion.
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On 17 October 1817 Provo Wallis married Juliana Massey; they had two daughters.