James Young Falkland Sulivan (1844–1901)

Naval officer. Eldest son of Sophia and Bartholomew James Sulivan. Thought by his family to be the first British subject born in the Falkland Islands. Sublieutenant on HMS Firefly in the Mediterranean, 1864; lieutenant on HMS Nassau, surveying the Straits of Magellan, 1866–7; on HMS Favorite in North America and the West Indies, 1868–9; on HMS Indus at Devonport, 1870. Stationed in China, 1870–5; studied at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 1875–6; lieutenant and commander of HMS Britomart at Southampton, 1876–9; served in the Coast Guard, 1882–8. Commander, 1889. Married Eleanor Evelyn Light, daughter of the rector of St James’s, Dover, in 1878.