James Tillard (d. 1814)

Naval officer. Commander of the warship HMS Sabrina, 1810; captain, 1811. Witnessed the eruption in June 1812 that produced a new island off the Azores; he named it Sabrina Island, and claimed it for Great Britain, but it soon disappeared into the ocean.

Sources

Brenton 1837, 2: 438

Syrett and DiNardo eds. 1994

The Times, 15 January 1814, p. 2