Adam Jellicoe

Adam Jellicoe (d. 1809)  died in August 1789, in the midst of a controversy concerning his misuse of Navy Bills, an episode that may have hastened his death and would later surface in the investigation conducted in 1805 by the House Select Committee concerning the misuse of public funds by Henry Dundas, Lord Melville, former treasurer in the Admiralty Office. The investigation led to Melville’s impeachment the next year. His son, Samuel Jellicoe, lived in nearby Gosport, where he would eventually become a trustee of the dissenting congregation there. His children, however, were all baptized into the Presbyterian congregation at High Street, Portsmouth, where Russell Scott ministered. Jellicoe was a partner with Henry Cort and his iron foundry at Gosport and Fontley, and by 1792 (after Cort’s bankruptcy) was the primary owner in business with a Mr. Weston. Jellicoe’s brother-in-law, William Carter, served as mayor of Portsmouth c. 1790.  See Universal British Directory (1791), vol. 3, p. 185; Philip Eley, The Gosport Iron Foundry and Henry Cort (Winchester: Hampshire County Council, 2001), 1-8.