Martin Guise

Martin George Guisse, born Martin George Guise (12 March 1780 – 23 November 1828), and later known as Jorge Martín Guisse in Spanish, was a British naval officer who served in Royal Navy in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He later served in the Chilean Navy during the Peruvian War of Independence and, as Vice-Admiral, in the Peruvian Navy in the Gran Colombia–Peru War, during which he was killed.

Biography He was a younger son of Sir John Guise, 1st Baronet, of Elmore Court, Gloucester, and Elizabeth Wright, and joined the Royal Navy, receiving a commission as a lieutenant on 6 March 1801, and taking part in the Battle of Trafalgar in October 1805. He commanded the 14-gun brig between 1811 and 1813, which captured the American ship Freeman on 29 July 1812. Guisse was promoted to commander 29 March 1815. It was his contribution to the attack on the Spanish Esmeralda in Callao that made its capture possible.

One of the four houses of Markham College, Lima, is named in his honour,

Guisse was the grandfather of Peruvian aviator George Chavez.