Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Footnotes in the Wheatley Edition point to a variant spelling of the name. They refer to him as Captain, afterwards Admiral Sir Thomas Teddiman.
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L&M spell his name Teddeman. Per the Companion, he was quite a successful commander and a close ally of Lord Sandwich. He got caught in the general disgrace of the Second Dutch War, and was afterward retired as port admiral of Dover. Here are his significant career dates:
To 1660: Served in Commonwealth navy
1660-68: Seven commands
1665-66: Promoted to rank of flag officer
1665: Knighted, but also “led the inglorious attack on the Dutch fleet in Bergen harbor”
1667: Retired to Dover
1668: Died
He also had a cousin, “Old Teddeman” (Henry Teddeman, Sr). He was also in the Commonwealth navy, but held only one later command, in 1664. Coventry had a low opinion of this cousin.
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Teddeman’s portrait by Lely
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21st.Nov.1664.
“…and this day for certain newes is come Teddiman hath brought in eighteen or twenty Dutcmen, merchants, their Bourdeaux fleet, and two men of warr to Portsmouth…”
Captain Sir Thomas Teddiman (or Tyddiman) had been appointed Rear-Admiral of Lord Sandwich’s squadron of the English fleet. In a letter from Sir William Coventry to Secretary Bennet, dated November 13th, 1664, we read, “Rear Admiral Teddeman with four or five ships has gone to course in the Channel, and if he meet any refractory Dutchmen will teach them their duty”(“Calendar of State Papers”, Domestic, 1664-65,p.66).
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“Flagmen of Lowestoft” —Teddeman Portrait:
“Apart from some service in the Mediterranean in 1660 little is known of him until, under Sandwich, he fought as Rear- Admiral of the Blue squadron off Lowestoft in 1665. He was knighted for this service. Shortly afterwards, still under Sandwich, he went to Bergen to attack Dutch Indiamen but was beaten off, since the Dutch were assisted by the Danish shore batteries. Despite this defeat he was successful the following year as a flag officer at the Four Days Fight and the St James’s Day victory.
The portrait is inscribed ‘Sir Thomas Tiddyman’ and is one of the ‘flagmen’ portraits commissioned by Charles II’s brother James, Duke of York after the Battle of Lowestoft. This was the first major action of the Second Dutch War, in which James commanded the fleet. It was seen in Lely’s studio by Pepys and mentioned in his diary for 18 April 1666 as one of the portraits then either begun or finished.”
Image etc:
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Thomas Teddiman († 13 May 1668 Old Style)