Henry Maltass of Constantinople
- Sources yet to be consulted:
-
Reference to Stephen Maltass in
extract from archives of the
Levant Company,
published in
The Standard,
8 Oct 1901.
-
The Rees family papers
say Stephen Maltass left a record
of what took place in the Dardanelles Operation in 1807.
Henry Maltass.
He went in mid-18th century to
Constantinople,
Turkey,
the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
See
historical background.
He
mar at Constantinople to
Juliana Barbarini.
Henry is alive and living in Constantinople in 1780
when his brother
William
leaves him money in his will.
Henry and Juliana had issue:
- Stephen Maltass.
Chancellor of the
British Embassy
at Constantinople as at 31 Dec 1806.
(The Ambassador 1804-1807 was
Charles Arbuthnot.)
Dardanelles Operation, 1807:
Maltass went with the Ambassador and
Admiral Duckworth
to Constantinople
in Feb 1807, when Duckworth
forced the Straits of the Dardanelles.
The narrow
Straits of the Dardanelles
(the gateway to Turkey and Russia
from the Mediterranean)
were always of huge strategic importance.
An English fleet under Duckworth
forced its way through the Straits of the Dardanelles,
in a historic display of rising European power
(and declining Ottoman power),
and intimidated Turkey.
Duckworth intimidated Constantinople.
But after negotiations with the Sultan
Selim III
he eventually withdrew.
Maltass was on the battleship the
"Standard",
the Captain of which was
Thomas Harvey.
[Clarke, 1860]
says that
in 1810 Stephen Maltass was British Consul at Alexandria.
He did not marry.
- William Maltass.
At age 12 he was Student interpreter at the
British Embassy
at Constantinople.
This was during the time when
Sir Robert Ainslie
was Ambassador (1776-1792).
He lived in Egypt.
He would be "William Maltass" who became a
Member
of the Levant Company
at Alexandria
on 8 July 1819.
He was British Vice-Consul
at Cairo.
He did not marry.
- Claude Philip Maltass.
The British Ambassador
refers to him
in a letter dated Constantinople, 29 Apr 1810.
He writes to Francis Werry, British Consul at Smyrna, as follows:
"For the present, I beg of you to do all you can to keep the
Prize Master and his men on board the captured ship until
I can obtain a decision from the Captain
Pacha
and on no account to suffer Captain Maltass to be prevented
returning to Malta
with his prisoners."
"Captain Maltass" [Claude Philip] must be a Captain in the
Royal Navy.
He did not marry.
- (4 daus) Maltass.
"The squadron under the command of Sir J T Duckworth forcing the narrow channel of the Dardanelles,
February 19th 1807".
From
here.
"Destruction of the Turkish Fleet, February 19th, 1807".
From here.
