William Mulcaster

Capt Sir William Howe Mulcaster CB, KCH, KTS, RN, (1783 – 12 March 1837) was an officer in the British Royal Navy who played a distinguished part in the Anglo-American War of 1812, in particular in the Engagements on Lake Ontario.

He was the son of Major General Frederick George Mulcaster (1740* - 1797) (*new calendar) of the Royal Engineers and Mary Juliana Auchmuty (1750 - 1830), his father's second wife. His mother was a daughter of the Reverend Samuel Auchmuty DD (1725 - 1777), the Rector of Trinity Church, New York. It seems likely that he was named after General Sir William Howe, whom his father came to know as his ADC, when serving in America. The family returned to England together in 1778. William was baptised in St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands on 30 October 1783

Mulcaster was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy in January 1800. In 1809, he was serving as a Lieutenant in the sixth rate vessel HMS Confiance. One of his fellow officers was his future commander, James Lucas Yeo. Confiance played a significant part in the capture of Cayenne, for which Mulcaster received a commemorative sword from the Prince Regent of Portugal and was promoted to Commander.

He was appointed to command the brig-rigged sloop of war HMS Emulous serving at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Shortly after war with America broke out in 1812, Emulous was wrecked on Cape Sable Island, and Mulcaster was recruited for service on the Great Lakes by Yeo (whose frigate, HMS Southampton had also been wrecked shortly before in the Caribbean).

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