Isaac Schomberg

Isaac Schomberg
Born	27 March 1753 London
Died	21 January 1813(1813-01-21) (aged 59) Cadogan Place, Chelsea
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Royal Navy
Years of service	1770 to 1813
Rank	Royal Navy Captain
Battles/wars	American Revolutionary War • Great Siege of Gibraltar • Battle of the Saintes French Revolutionary Wars • Glorious First of June Napoleonic Wars
Other work	Naval historian

Captain Isaac Schomberg (27 March 1753 – 21 January 1813) was a highly controversial officer of the British Royal Navy whose constant disputes with senior officers resulted in courts-martial, lawsuits and the eventual stagnation of his career. However, despite his contentious nature, Schomberg was a brave officer who gained distinction in several actions during the American Revolutionary and French Revolutionary Wars. He finished his career as a commissioner of the Navy and devoted most of the last fifteen years of his life to writing an influential history of naval operations in and around Britain.

Schomberg was born in London to Ralph Schomberg, son of Meyer Löw Schomberg both prominent physicians of German Jewish descent, although his father had converted to the Anglican faith in his youth. His mother was Elizabeth Crowcher, daughter of a wealthy merchant from Wapping.^[1] One of ten children with seven uncles, Schomberg's family were very prominent in middle-class eighteenth century London and Isaac (not to be confused with his uncle Isaac Schomberg, a prominent doctor) grew up in a literary environment, his father a common contributor to medical and literary journals.