John Strutt Peyton

Sir John Strutt Peyton, (1786–1838) was a captain in the Royal Navy.

Lineage John Strutt Peyton, born in London on 14 January 1786, was the son of William Peyton of the Navy Office, grandson of Admiral Joseph Peyton, and great-grandson of Commodore Edward Peyton. His father's three brothers, too, were all in the navy; one of them, John, who died a rear-admiral in 1809, was captain of the Defence in the Battle of the Nile. His grandmother was a daughter of Commander John Strutt; his mother was the daughter of Commander Jacob Lobb, who died in command of the Kingfisher sloop on the American station in 1773, and was sister of Captain William Granville Lobb, afterwards a commissioner of the navy.

Career Peyton went first to sea in October 1797, on board the Hector, off Cadiz; was then for three years in the Emerald in the Mediterranean, and in January 1801 was appointed to the San Josef, Nelson's flagship in the Channel. With Nelson he was moved to the St. George, in which he was in the Baltic and afterwards off Cadiz and in the West Indies, for part of the time under the command of his uncle, Captain Lobb. During 1802–3 he served, in quick succession, in several frigates in the Channel or in the North Sea, and in August 1803 was sent out to the Victory, carrying Nelson's flag off Toulon. In March 1805 he was appointed acting-lieutenant of the Canópus, from which he was moved in May to the Ambuscade frigate with Captain William Durban, employed during the next two years in the Adriatic. Peyton's commission as lieutenant was dated 7 October 1805. In July 1807, having been sent to destroy a vessel which ran herself ashore near Ortona, he was wounded in the right elbow by a musket-bullet; the arm had to be amputated, and he was invalided.

Personal and death He married, in 1814, a daughter of Lieutenant Woodyear, Royal Navy, of St. Kitts. They had three daughters and two sons, the elder of whom, Lumley Woodyear, died a retired commander in 1885.

In the spring of 1838 Peyton was compelled to invalid. John Strutt Peyton died in London on 20 May.