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BOLTON—BOND. served for upwards of two years in the North Sea and off the coast of North America. During the first three years of the peace he appears to have been employed with Capt. Jas. Walker in the, , and 74’s, on the Home station, where, and in the West Indies, he afterwards joined the  36, Capt. Nesbit Josiah Willoughby,  26, Capt. Alex. Montgomerie, 38, Capt. Geo. Harris, and, as Mate, the 50, Capt. Thos. Forrest. Having passed his examination in Sept. 1819, he obtained command, 29 Oct. 1824, of the schooner, also stationed in the West Indies, whence, shortly after his confirmation to a Lieutenancy in the  18, Capt. John Leith, which took place 27 Aug. 1825, he returned home. His subsequent appointments were, again on the same station – 10 Dec. 1829, to the 26, Capts. Lord Wm. Paget and Hon. Geo. Rolle Walpole Trefusis – 15 Jan. 1832, to the 52, commanded by the same officers and Hon. Wm. Wellesley – and, 24 Feb. 1833, to the command of the schooner of 5 guns. During the short period of 20 months that he was in the latter vessel, Lieut. Bolton signalised himself by the ardour and success of his efforts against the supporters of the slave-trade, from whom he captured no less than six heavy vessels, having on board, in the aggregate, as many as 1902 negroes. For his conduct on one occasion in particular, 10 Nov. 1833, in taking the Joaquina, after a spirited action of 10 minutes, in which the latter lost her Captain and 2 men killed, and was reduced to a sinking state, with four feet water in her hold, he received a letter of thanks from the Admiralty. In Nov. 1834, the, in charge at the time of a pilot, was unfortunately wrecked on her way to the Havana in running through the Old Bahama Channel. At the subsequent court-martial held at Port Royal her Commander was not only fully acquitted of all blame in the unfortunate occurrence, but was complimented with the high encomiums of the President, Sir Watkin Owen Pell. He has since been on half-pay.

Lieut. Bolton married, 27 Oct. 1835, Anne Elizabeth, fourth daughter of the late T. Howard, Esq., of London,

 BOLTON. 

, born in July, 1796, is first cousin of

This officer entered the Navy, 19 March, 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. Graham Eden Hamond and John Talbot. Under the former officer he assisted at the reduction of Flushing, in Aug. 1809, where he was frequently exposed to the fire of the batteries; and, under Capt. Talbot, he was constantly employed on gunboat service in the Faro of Messina during the expected invasion of Sicily by Murat in the summer of 1810. He was also present, as Midshipman, at the memorable capture, 22 Feb. 1812, of the French 74-gun ship Rivoli, after a desperate conflict of four hours and a half, in which the enemy had 400 men with most of their officers killed and wounded, and the 27 killed and, including Mr. Bolton, 99 wounded. In 1813 we find the subject of this memoir engaged on many boat expeditions up the Chesapeake, and in 1814-15 cruizing off the Western Islands, in the 38, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres. He passed his examination in April of the latter year; then joined the 10, Capt. Lord John Hay, employed on the coast of France during the Hundred Days; was made Lieutenant, 14 July, 1818, into the  24, Capts. Fred. Hickey and Fred. Edw. Venables Vernon, on the South American station, whence he returned in July, 1820; afterwards joined, in Feb. 1827, the 46, Capt. Arth. Batt Bingham, one of the ships employed on the Brazilian coast during the Spanish Revolution; obtained his present rank 26 Aug. 1829; quitted the in Aug. 1830; and afterwards, from 20 March, 1832, to April, 1835, and from 11 July, 1837, to July, 1840, filled the situation of Inspecting Commander of the Coast Guard at Donaghadee and Waterford. He has since been unemployed.

Commander Bolton married, in 1839, Ann, only daughter of the late Wm. Kearney, Esq., of Waterford.

 BOLTON. 

, born 13 Oct. 1794, is first cousin of

This officer entered the Navy, 6 April, 1809, as Midshipman, on board the 10, Capt. Hew Steuart, which vessel, in Aug. following, attended the expedition to the Walcheren, where, in the attack upon Campvere, she grounded under the batteries, and was much damaged. On 23 July, 1810, having joined the 36, Capt. Rich. Byron, Mr. Bolton served in the boats of that ship at the cutting out and destruction, after a smart action, of three Danish armed vessels, on the coast of Norway; and, on 23 June, 1812, he was present in her celebrated escape from a powerful squadron under the American Commodore Rodgers, who, in a long running fight, had occasioned her a loss of 2 men killed and 22 wounded. He was subsequently employed, as Mate and Admiralty Midshipman, in the 36, and  38, both commanded by Capt. Phipps Hornby, at the Cape of Good Hope and in the Mediterranean;  50, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, under whom he was hotly engaged in the battle of Algiers, 27 Aug. 1816; 74, Capt. Thos. Boys; again, from Sept. 1818, until April, 1821, in the, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, lying in the Downs;  18, Capts. Wm. Hen. Bruce and Hon. Hen. John Rous, on the Irish station; from March, 1822, till July, 1824, in the 20, Capts. Rous and Lord John Churchill, in the Mediterranean; 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Hoste, guard-ship at Portsmouth; and 120, bearing the flag at Plymouth of Sir Jas. Saumarez. Having passed his examination in March, 1815, Mr. Bolton was at length presented with a commission, 27 March, 1826. He has since been on half-pay.

 BOND. 

entered the Navy, in 1795, as Midshipman, on board the 98, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, under whom he served for four years in the Mediterranean and Channel, and fought in the action off Cape St. Vincent, 14 Feb. 1797. He next became attached in succession to the, , and , line-of-battle ships, commanded by Capt. Wm. Brown, on the former stations; removed, for a short time, in 1801, to the 32, Capt. Edw. Leveson Gower, employed off Guernsey and Lisbon; then rejoined Capt. Brown in the 38, on the Irish station; was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 29 April, 1802; and in the following year, while serving with Capt. Brown in the  50, visited the coast of Africa and the West Indies. He afterwards, from 1805 to 1808, held an appointment in the Sea-Fencibles at Chatham, and in 1815-16 had charge of a Telegraph station. Commander Bond, who does not appear to have been further employed, accepted his present rank 25 March, 1834. – J. Hinxman.

 BOND. 

entered the Navy, 16 Oct. 1807, as Midshipman, on board the, Capt. Geo. Harris, in which vessel he proceeded to the East Indies, where, on removing, with the same officer, into the frigate, he was for more than three years very actively employed, particularly off the island of Java. He returned home in Jan. 1812, on board the 36, Capt. Jas. Hillyer; afterwards served with Capt. Harris for seventeen months in the 38, in the