William Cornwallis Symonds [SEP] date of death
William Cornwallis Symonds
Captain William Cornwallis Symonds (1 August 1810 – 23 November 1841) was a British Army officer who was prominent in the early colonisation of New Zealand.
Symonds was born in 1810. He was the eldest son of William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy, who was a prominent member of the New Zealand Association. Symonds Jr. was commissioned into the 38th Foot. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1832, transferred to the 74th Foot in 1835, and was promoted Captain in 1838.
He came to
repeated the arguments over his sailing-ship designs despite the Navy's having long abandoned sail by this date.
Family.
On 21 April 1808, William married Elizabeth Saunders Luscombe, daughter of Matthew Luscombe of Plymouth. They had one daughter and four sons:
- Theresa Aubrina Symonds (1808 – 19 January 1872), married Daniel Smith Bockett, and had 18 children
- William Cornwallis Symonds (1810–1841), eldest son, who became an army captain, a member of the Royal Geographical Society and Deputy