Thomas Byam Martin

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas Byam Martin, was a Royal Navy officer and politician. As captain of fifth-rate HMS Fisgard he took part in a duel with the French ship Immortalité and captured her at the Battle of Tory Island during the French Revolutionary Wars. Then while in command of the third-rate HMS Implacable in the Baltic Sea and attached to the Swedish Navy he took part in the capture the Russian ship Sewolod (Vsevolod) during the Napoleonic Wars. During the French invasion of Russia, Martin commanded British naval squadron supporting Russian defenders in the siege of Riga.