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1066 the he took up a commission dated 19 July, 1821 – awarded in honour of the coronation of George IV. From 9 Jan. 1827 until Dec. 1830, he served in the Coast Blockade, with his name on the books of the 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye; and, since 14 Oct. 1834, he has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard.

 SHORTT. 

entered the Navy 14 May, 1836; passed his examination 1 June, 1842; and after having been for two years and a half Mate of the gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 22 Dec. 1843. From 23 Feb. 1844 until paid off at the close of 1847, he served in the Pacific and Channel and off the coast of Portugal in the 50., Capts. Hon. John Gordon and Sir Thos. Maitland; and, from 1 Feb. until June, 1848, at Portsmouth in the 84, Capt. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas.

 SHULDHAM. 

is third son of the late Arthur Lemuel Shuldham, Esq., of Dunmanway, co. Cork, and of Pallis Green, co. Limerick, who resided for many years at Deerpark, Devon, and was Deputy-Lieutenant for that co., and Lieutenant-Colonel of the East Devon Yeomanry Cavalry, by his first wife, Maria, daughter of the late Sir Wm. Anderson, Bart., formerly of Kilnwick Percy, Yorkshire, and of Lea Hall, Lincolnshire. He is brother (with the present Edm. Wm. Shuldham, Esq., of Dunmanway, Major-General E.I.Co.’s service, for some years Quarter-Master General at Bombay) of the late Lieut. John Geo. Evelyn Shuldham, R.N., of Mr. Henry Geo. Shuldham, Midshipman, R.N., who was killed at the taking of, and of the late Lieut.-Colonel Arthur Shuldham, E.I.C.S.

This officer entered the Navy, 5 Jan. 1793, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the, Capt. Lewis Robertson, attached to the force in the Channel. On removing with Capt. Robertson to the 64, commanded afterwards by Capt. Wm. Hancock Kelly, he took part, in 1794, in the attack made by Commodore Ford on the island of St. Domingo. He next, in the course of 1796-7, became Midshipman (a rating he had previously attained) of the 36, Capt. Chas. Rowley, 54, Capt. Thos. Bertie, and Lord Mulgrave, all on the Home station; and on 15 April, 1799, about which period he suffered shipwreck on the coast of Ireland, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His subsequent appointments were – 13 May, 1799, to the, Capts. Henry Wray and Thos. Lavie, stationed off Guernsey – 17 Jan. 1801, to the 74, Capts. Edw. Buller, Geo. Murray, and Robt. Waller Otway, under the second named of whom he fought at Copenhagen 2 April, 1801 – 5 April, 1803, and 15 March, 1804, to the 100 and  74, Capts. Rich. Curry and Pulteney Malcolm, employed in the Channel and Mediterranean – 18 April, 1805, to the, Capt. John Wainwright, lying at Spithead – and, 6 March, 1806, to the command of the gun-brig. The latter vessel being driven on shore and captured near Abreval 9 Dec following, he remained a prisoner of war in France from that period until April, 1814. He accepted the rank of Retired Commander on the Senior List 10 June, 1843.

In May, 1816, Commander Shuldham was presented with the gold Isis medal, and with the silver medal of the Society of Arts for his improved pullies and blocks, and his improvements in working a capstan; and in the session of 1817-18 he received another silver medal from the same Society for his ‘New Method of Ballasting Vessels.’ He married Fanny, daughter of the Rev. F. T. Maunton Orgill Leman, of Brampton Hall, Suffolk, and has a numerous family. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 SHUTE. 

was born 20 Dec. 1808.

This officer entered the Navy, 13 Nov. 1823, on board the 10, Capt. Hon. Chas. Philip Yorke (now Earl of Hardwicke), stationed in the Mediterranean, where he assisted in the boats at the capture, on different occasions, of not less than 23 piratical vessel. On the paying off of the in 1827, he joined first the  42, and next the  28; in which latter ship, commanded by his former Captain, Yorke, he was for 18 months again employed in the Mediterranean. Having passed his examination in 1829, he became, in 1830, Mate of the, Capt. Edw. Belcher, under whom we find him for some time constantly engaged in the boats in surveying different rivers on the coast of Africa to the northward of Sierra Leone. The was put out of commission in the summer of 1833, and in 1834 Mr. Shute, after he had been for about a year in the Portuguese service, joined the  16, Capt. Jas. Hope, on the North America and West India station. About the end of 1837 he took a passage in the 72, flag-ship of the Hon. Geo. Elliot, for the purpose of reaching the 18, Capt. Robt. Craigie, then on the coast of Africa. Being awarded a commission dated 28 June, 1838, he was reappointed 19 July following to the, in the capacity of Additional-Lieutenant. In June, 1839, he returned to England in the 18, Capt. Wm. Langford Castle; and, on 3 Jan. 1840, he was appointed, a second time as Additional-Lieutenant, to the 72, Capt. Thos. Maitland, at that time in the East Indies. On his arrival in China in the 72, Capt. Sir Humphrey Fleming Senhouse, he was appointed Second of the  18, Capt, Harry Eyres; and for his services in that sloop during the operations connected with the first and second capture of Canton, he was particularly recommended and was in consequence promoted to the rank of Commander 8 June, 1841. Prior to the receipt of his commission he appears to have assisted as Senior of the same vessel at the taking of Amoy, Chusan, Chinghae, and Ningpo, and to have returned home as First of the 18, Capt. Patrick John Blake. He has been employed, since _30 June, 1847, as an Inspecting Commander in the Coast Guard. – Hallett and Robinson.

 SHUTTLEWORTH. 

entered the Navy, 14 Sept. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 80, Capts. Edw. Buller and Wm. Shield, employed in the Channel and also in the Mediterranean, where, in Aug. 1808, he removed as Midshipman (nearly 12 months after he had attained that rating) to the 74, Capts. Rich. Hussey Moubray and John Halliday. From May, 1811, until presented, in Oct. 1815, with a commission bearing date 21 Feb. in that year, he served off Cherbourg, Flushing, and Calais, on the north coast of Spain, and in North America and the West Indies, in the 74, Capt. Joseph Bingham,  14, Capt. Edw. Brazier, 32, Capts. Wm. Paterson and John Knill Kinsman,, Capt. Geo. Augustus Westphal, and again, Capt. Frank Gore Willock. He has not been since afloat.

Lieut. Shuttleworth has been for some years Emigration at Sligo, where he married, in 1836,