Timothy SCRIVEN was born around 1778, the son of Samuel SCRIVEN and Sarah HUTCHING. He volunteered to join the navy in 1795 and later that year was serving under Commodore NELSON on the Agamemnon. He rose through the ranks of Orderly, Midshipman, Master's Mate and Lieutenant, finally in October 1813 reaching the rank of Captain. Much of that time he spent sailing near the West Indies, and off the coasts of Spain and Portugal and France.
Between June and October 1813 as Lieutenant in Command of the Telegraph, he captured an American armed schooner, the Ellen and Emmeline, laden with silks and other valuable merchandise, bound from Nantes to New York. Indeed while in command of the Arrow and the Telegraph he captured 5047 tons of enemy shipping.
He was awarded a Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath in 1815. Unfortunately in June 1819, while commanding the 20-gun brig, the Erne, he was shipwrecked on one of the Cape Verde Islands, from whence a Portuguese ship transported his officers and crew to Barbados. He had been nominated to Flag Rank, but because of the shipwreck was court-martialled, his commission was cancelled, and he was obliged to leave the navy. He died on the island of Jersey.
He married Sophia CUDDEMORE in 1802 at Portsea, and they had children George Augustus, Josias Rowley, Sophia Jane and Henry Valentine.