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Rh , of Ramsgate, by whom he has issue three children. – Burnett and Holmes.

 SOUTHEY. 

entered the Navy, 13 July, 1804, as Midshipman, on board the 84, Capt. Edw. Buller; in which ship, after sharing in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, 22 July, 1805, and assisting at the capture, 27 Sept. 1806, of Le Président, French frigate of 44 guns, he proceeded to the Mediterranean; where, in the course of 1807, he joined the 98, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Geo. Martin, and sloop, Capt. Geo. Crawley. Subsequently to the capture of the convoy in the Bay of Rosas, alluded to in our memoir of Commander Henry Slade, he was sent in charge of one of the prizes taken on that occasion to Gibraltar, at which place he was for three months intrusted with the command of a gun-boat. From March, 1810, until Nov. 1813, he served in the Baltic and East Indies in the 38, Capt. Alex. Wilmot Schomberg, and 36, Capt. Brian Hodgson. Of the latter ship he was for nine months Acting-Master. On leaving her he returned to England in the 74, Capt. Sir Home Popham. He was made Lieutenant, 17 Sept. 1814, into the 32, Capt. Chas. Dilkes, under whom he was for a year employed in the Mediterranean and on the coast of North America; and he was afterwards appointed – 23 Dec. 1815, to the 80, Capt. Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson, by whom he was sent in the tender to cruize between Brighton and Dungeness – 5 and 25 June, 1819, to the command (the  had been paid off in Aug. 1818) of the  12 and  Revenue-vessel, the latter stationed on the coast of Ireland for a few months in 1826-7, and again in 1829-30, as a Supernumerary, to the  74, Coast Blockade ship, Capt. Hugh Pigot – 29 April, 1835, to the Coast Guard – 26 Sept. 1836, to the  104, Capt. Thos. Fortescue Kennedy, guard-ship at Sheerness – 3 Feb. 1837, again to the Coast Guard – 9 Oct. 1840, to the command, for nearly twelve months, of the brig, employed on particular service – 19 Aug. 1842, as First, to the  steamer, Capt. And. Snape Hamond, fitting for South America – and 24 Nov. 1842, a third time, to the Coast Guard, in which he continued but a short period. He attained the rank of Commander 14 Aug. 1844; and has since been on half-pay.

 SPAIN. 

obtained his commission 23 Nov. 1847; and has been serving, since 7 Jan. 1848, in the 19, Capt. John Elphinstone Erskine, now in the East Indies.

 SPARK. 

entered the Navy, 4 Nov. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Geo. Hope; with whom and with Capts. Graham Moore, Rich. Henry Alex. Bennett, Phipps Hornby, Abel Ferris, and Walter Bathurst, he served from the following Dec. until June, 1811, the greater part of the time as Midshipman, in the 74, on the West India, Home, and Mediterranean stations. He was then for eight months employed in the troop-ship, Capt. Hon. Edm. Sexten Pery Knox; and for nearly seven in the 74, Capt. Manley Hall Dixon, and  and  74’s, both commanded by Capt. G. Moore. He was confirmed a Lieutenant (a few weeks after he had been ordered to act in that capacity) in the 74, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Chas. Vinicombe Penrose at Gibraltar, 15 Oct. 1812; invalided home in Nov. 1813; obtained an appointment in the Water Guard 22 Feb. 1820; and was subsequently placed in command – 12 May, 1830, of the cutter, on the Home station – and 21 Nov. 1839 and 23 Feb. 1843, of the  and  steamers, both in the Mediterranean, whence he returned towards the close of 1845. He was advanced to his present rank 23 April, 1846.

Commander Spark published, in 1829, a chart of the entrance into Poole Harbour, with Studland Bay – a correction of Lieut. M. M‘Kenzie’s chart of 1785. – Burnett and Holmes.

 SPARROW. 

was born in 1791, and died about the commencement of 1848. He was eldest son of the late Bodychan Sparrow, Esq., by Martha, second daughter of Owen Meyrick, Esq., of Badorgan; and brother of Henry Wm. Sparrow, Esq., a Lieutenant in the Army, who died on his passage from India in 1826. Another of his brothers married the only daughter of Colonel Carey, R.A.; and his youngest sister married her first-cousin, the present Wm. Wynne Sparrow, Esq., of Red Hill, a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant, who served as High Sheriff of Anglesey in 1822, and is a Commissioner of Assessed Taxes. His uncle, John Bodychan Sparrow, Esq., father of the latter gentleman, and High Sheriff of Anglesey in 1781, was at one time Major of the Royal Anglesey Regiment of Militia, and subsequently Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the Anglesey Local Militia.

This officer entered the Navy, 20 Jan. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 40, Capts. Hon. Chas. Paget and Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel in which frigate he assisted as Midshipman at the capture, 18 June, 1805, of La Colombe French corvette of 16 guns, and was present, in 1807, at the passage of the Dardanells. He continued employed in the Mediterranean until 1810; he next, in July of that year, joined the, Capt. Robt. Hall, lying at Spithead; and on subsequently proceeding in the sloop, Capt. John Porteous, to the Brazils, he was made Lieutenant, 21 April, 1813, into the  74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon. He was placed on half-pay in the following Nov.; and served afterwards, from Feb. to June, 1815, in the 36, Capt. Jas. Hillyar, in the Channel. – Hallett and Robinson.

 SPARSHOTT, K.H.

is brother of

This officer entered the Navy, 23 July, 1801, as Midshipman, on borad the sloop, Capt. Chas. Bassett Jones, stationed on the north coast of Ireland, where he continued until Sept. 1802. He served next, from Jan. 1803 until March, 1805, in the cutter, Lieut.-Commanders Martin White and Sam. Burgess, on the Guernsey station; and from the latter date until Dec. 1807 in the sloop, Capt. R. J. Neve, and  40, Capts. Matthew Henry Scott and John Wentworth Loring. While cruizing with Capt. Loring off L’Orient he assisted at the capture, 28 March, 1806, of Le Néarque corvette of 16 guns and 97 men, in company at the time with three French frigates. On leaving the he joined the  74, bearing the flag of Sir Sam. Hood; under whom we find him, in the course of the same month (Dec. 1807) present at the surrender of Madeira. On proceeding, afterwards, to the Baltic, he was there, 16 July, 1808, placed in command, with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, of the prize-cutter of 14 guns; for his zeal and activity in which vessel in effecting the capture of as many as 21 sail of merchantmen, he was officially promoted 28 April 1809. His succeeding appointments were – 12 May 1809, for two years, to his former ship the Capts. Loring and Wm. Augustus Montagu, employed on the Home, Lisbon, and Cadiz stations – 8 July, 1814, to the 18, Capt. Wm. Hendry at Newfoundland – 15 June, 1815, for a passage home, to the 74, Capt. John Tremayne