Hi Have you any access to the database 19th Century British Newspapers? Some libraries grant this. There are well over 200 entries for John Lidgett, many of them to a man of that man who was director of the Star Life Assurance Company. May be the same man, but there is no further information. However, several papers reported the following- With reference to your letter of the 17th December last covering a petition from various British Masters frequenting the Baltic to his Majesty the King of Denmark respecting the early removal of the buoys and beacons in the Sound.....the King...is pleased to grant the prayer of the petitioners.....in future the buoys and beacons are to remain until the navigation is stopped by lee and three additional buoys are to be placed in the part of the Sound called the Grounds Letter from the British Consul at Elsinore to Captain John Lidgett Morning Post March 24th 1834. John seems to have been quite a one for political action, as he also signed a petition to Sir Robert Peel, regarding Systematic Colonization in order to promote trade, increase employment , remove some sources of general distress and improve the state of the country! (Morning Post March 27 1843) He also attended a Meeting of the Friends of British Navigation held to try to prevent the repeal of the Navigation laws, April 4th 1849 reported April 5th One of the ships he owned was the Gratitude, 400 tons, sailing to Port Adelaide and advertised in the Daily news Feb 10th 1848 "well-known fast-sailing British built" I imagine other listers will have looked at the same database for you, but contact me if you would like me to look further he did not apply for a Master's certificate of Service, presumably because he had no need of one in 1851 Clare Oxford UK >Hi Listers >Am seeking more information on Mr. John Lidgett who is shown as a Master Mariner when he >married in 1828.By 1851 he describes himself as a Ship Owner, of 13 ships (trading as Lidgett & Co >or Lidgett & son).