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1062 SHEWEN. 

died 7 Dec. 1845.

This officer entered the Navy, 23 July, 1793, as Captain’s Servant, on board the 32, Capts. Herbert Sawyer and Robt. Warburton, employed at Newfoundland and on the Home station; where, in 1795, he rejoined Capt. Sawyer, as Midshipman (a rating he had previously attained) in the 64, flag-ship for some time of Admiral Sir Rich. Onslow; on removing with whom to the 74, commanded subsequently by Capt. Sam. Sutton, he fought in the action off 11 Oct. 1797. Being on that occasion severely wounded, he was presented with a gratuity from the Patriotic Fund. After serving at Sheerness and in the Mediterranean, as Master’s Mate, in the and, both under the orders of Capt. David Lloyd, he was made Lieutenant, 19 Aug. 1799, into the  20, lying at Spithead. Deducting an interval of a few months occasioned by the peace of Amiens, he was employed, between the following Oct. and 1806, on the Home station, in the, Capt. Thos. Palmer, 74, Capt. Herbert Sawyer,, Capt. John MasonLewis,  110 and  98, flag-ships of Sir Chas. Cotton and Sir Robt. Calder (the latter engaged in the action of 22 July, 1805), and 74,  again,  80, and  110, bearing each the flag of Vice-Admiral Thornbrough; to whom he then became Flag-Lieutenant in the  100. In June, 1808, at which time he was serving in the Mediterranean, he invalided home on board the 74, Capt. Sam. Jackson. His last appointment was, 28 Aug. 1834, to the Ordinary at Sheerness, in which he continued until Aug. 1837 – the last year with his name on the books of the 98, Capt. Thos. Fortescue Kennedy. He was placed on the Senior List of Retired Commanders 22 Jan. 1844.

He married at Plymouth, 8 Oct. 1829, Miss Elizabeth Boulter. – Pettet and Newton.

 SHIFFNER, Bart. 

, born 4 Nov. 1789, is second and eldest surviving son of Sir Geo. Shiffner (whom he succeeded, as second Baronet, 3 Feb. 1842) by Mary, only daughter and heiress of Sir John Bridger, Kt., of Coln, St. Aldwyns, co. Gloucester, and Combe Place, Sussex; and brother (with Capt. John Bridger Shiffner, 3rd Foot Guards, who was mortally wounded at the siege of Bayonne 14 April, 1814, and died the next day) of the Rev. Geo. Shiffner, Prebendary of Chichester. His grandfather, Henry Shiffner, Esq., of Pontrylas, co. Hereford, M.P. for Minehead, married Mary, daughter of John Jackson, Esq., Governor-General of Bengal in 1748, and niece of John Lord Bellenden.

This officer entered the Royal Naval Academy in May, 1802; and embarked in Dec. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 38, Capts. Wm. Hall Gage and Geo. Miller, under whom he was for three years employed in the North Sea, off the coasts of France, Spain, and Portugal, in the Mediterranean, and at St. Helena. Soon after he had joined the 28, flag-ship of Sir Henry Edwin Stanhope at Deptford, he was made Lieutenant, 10 Feb. 1809, into the  50, Capt. Brian Hodgson. In the following March he removed to the 36, Capts. Wm. Selby, Edw. Henry A’Court, and B. Hodgson; and after serving for three years and seven months in that ship on the Baltic, Channel, North American, Mediterranean, Cape of Good Hope, and East India stations, he received, in Oct. 1814, a Commander’s commission, dated 22 of the preceding Feb., appointing him to the sloop, building at Bombay. Returning to England on Admiralty leave in 1815, he next, 6 Jan. 1818, and 1 July, 1819, obtained command of the 10 and  18, both on the Newfoundland station; where he was nominated, 11 Sept. in the latter year, Acting-Captain of the  26. In that ship, to which he was confirmed 10 Nov. following, he remained until paid off 5 Jan. 1820. His last appointment was, 7 April, 1834, to the 74, bearing the flag of Sir Wm. Hall Gage at Lisbon. He was placed on half-pay 12 Jan. 1838; and on 1 Oct. 1846 he accepted the Retirement.

Sir Henry Shiffner married, 9 July, 1825, Emily, second daughter of the late Thos. Brooke, Esq., of Church Minshul, co. Chester. – Hallett and Robinson.

 SHILLINGFORD. 

is second son of Thos. Shillingford, Esq., late Captain of the Royal Bucks Yeomanry.

This officer entered the Navy, 1 Feb. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol. on board the 98, Capts. Wm. Lechmere, Geo. Burgoyne Salt, and Valentine Collard, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Thos. Sotheby in the Channel, where he attained the rating of Midshipman 1 Feb. 1809, and saw much boat-service. Proceeding in Oct. 1810 to the Mediterranean in the 120, Capt. White, he continued actively employed on that station until his return home in Aug. 1814 in the  110 and Rodney and  74’s, all flag-ships of Rear-Admiral Thos. Fras. Fremantle. In 1813 he was present at the reduction of Trieste. On his subsequent arrival in the West Indies in the 74, Capt. Willoughby Thos. Lake, he was nominated, 25 Nov. 1814, Acting-Lieutenant of the 38, Capts. Fred. Langford and Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer; in command of one of the boats of which ship we find him, 14 Dec. in the same year, assisting at the capture, on Lake Borgne, of five American gun-boats under Commodore Jones, whose desperate resistance occasioned the British a loss of 17 men killed and 77 wounded. He joined in the ensuing attack upon New Orleans, and was in the boats co-operating with the army on the Mississippi on the fatal 8 Jan. 1815. He continued in the (to which ship he was confirmed 28 Feb. 1815) until 21 Jan. 1816; and since 30 March, 1835, has been employed in the Coast Guard.

Lieut. Shillingford married, 23 Dec. 1830, Lucy, daughter of Wm. Gurden, Esq., a lady by whom he has issue three children.

 SHIPLEY. 

, born in Nov. 1824, is eldest surviving son of the late Rev. Chas. Shipley, of Twyford House, co. Hants, by Charlotte, daughter of Orby Sloper, Esq., of West Woodhay, co. Berks, Rector of Mappowder, co. Dorset; and nephew of the late gallant Capt. Conway Shipley, R.N. His grandfather, the Rev. Wm. Davies