Admiral Frederick Byng Montresor (c. 1811 – 15 December 1887) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, East Indies & Cape of Good Hope Station.
Naval career Montresor was made a lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1835.Profile: Frederick Byng Montresor R.N., pdavis.nl. Accessed 15 January 2023.
He was promoted to captain in 1857, he took command of HMS Calypso and sailed to Esquimalt in August 1858 to deal with American miners causing commotion in the Fraser River area.Barry M. Gough, "Turbulent Frontiers and British Expansion: Governor James Douglas, the Royal Navy, and the British Columbia Gold Rushes", The Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 41, No, 1 (February 1972), pp. 15-32.
In 1862, he transferred to the command of HMS Severn before being appointed Commander-in-Chief, East Indies & Cape of Good Hope Station in January 1865.
He was promoted to rear-admiral in 1867, and retired in 1870. In 1873, while on the retired list, he was further promoted to retired vice-admiral.
Family He was son of General Thomas Gage Montresor, grandson of John Montresor and nephew of Henry Tucker Montresor.Henry Wagner, "The Huguenot Refugee Family of Montrésor", Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of London, vol. 11, opposite p. 293 In 1851, he married Emily Delafield. Their children included the novelist Frances Frederica Montresor.
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