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Capt. Thomas Teddeman

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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.

  • 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.

  • Teddeman’s portrait by Lely
    http://www.nmm.ac.uk/mag/pages/mnuExplore/PaintingDetail.cfm?lettera=&ID=BHC3167&name=Sir%20Peter%20Lely&action=ArtistTitle

  • Hello! I don’t know if anyone actually posts on this site anymore, but i AM a Teddiman and I would love to know where you got the information on this man! If anyone is still out there, let me know :)
    Courtney

  • 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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References in the diary

1660
Apr: 14, 30
Dec: 22
1661
Feb: 28
1662
May: 22, 23
1664
Nov: 21
1665
Apr: 14
Jul: 5