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Rh the latter period until presented, in Oct. 1815, with a commission bearing date 10 of the preceding March, he was again employed in the Channel in the and  sloops, both commanded by Capt. Edm. Waller. Since 7 Sept. 1836, he has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard, he is married, and has issue.

 SPURWAY. 

was born 28 Feb. 1791.

This officer entered the Navy, 6 Sept. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capts. Davidge Gould and Chas. Boyles, stationed in the Channel; and from April, 1806, until Aug. 1812, was employed in the and  74’s, Capts. Wm. Hargood and Hon. Henry Hotham. In the he assisted, as Midshipman, at the blockade of Brest; and in the, after pursuing a French squadron to the West Indies, and encountering a violent hurricane, he contributed, 14 Sept. 1806, to the destruction, off Cape Henry, of the 74-gun ship Impétueux. In 1809, being at the time in the, he aided, with a party of seamen, in refitting in Carthagena harbour, and in then conveying in safety to Gibraltar, the Ferdinand VII., a Spanish three-decker; and on 22 May, 1812, he was present, in company with the gun-brig, at the destruction, at the entrance of L’Orient, of the French 40-gun frigates L’Arienne and L’Andromaque, and 16-gun brig Mamelouck, whose united fire, conjointly with that of a heavy battery, killed 5 and wounded 28 of the ’s people. After he left the latter ship Mr. Spurway served – from Dec. 1812 until April, 1813, in the 38, Capt. Sir Thos. John Cochrane, in the West Indies – from Aug. 1813 until Jan. 1814, latterly as Master’s Mate, in the 74, Capt. Ross Donnelly – from 8 April, 1814, until he invalided 4 Oct. following, as Acting-Lieutenant, in the  14, Capt. Wm. M‘Kenzie Godfrey, again in the West Indies – and from 22 Feb. until 1 June, 1815, as Lieutenant (he had taken up, on leaving the, a commission dated 8 July, 1814), in the 20, Capts. Wm. Paterson and Robt. Gambier, on the Channel station. He has since been on half-pay.

 SQUIRE. 

entered the Navy, 26 July, 1795, as L.M., on board the 74, Capt. Matthew Squire, stationed in the North Sea, where, in the following Sept., he attained the rating of Midshipman. After serving for 12 months at Plymouth in the 74, Capt. Boger, he joined, in March, 1797, the  98, Capts. M. Squire, Shuldham Peard, and Theophilus Jones, attached to the Channel fleet. He served next on the Jamaica station, from July, 1799, until Oct. 1802, the last five months as Acting-Lieutenant, in the frigate, Capts. Wallace and Wm. Geo. Rutherford, 80, flag-ship of Lord Hugh Seymour, and  again, Capt. W. G. Rutherford. On 26 Nov. in the latter year he was officially promoted. He obtained an appointment in the Sea Fencibles 26 March, 1804; was employed, from 22 May, 1805, until 6 Oct. 1810, in the 74, Capts. Robt. Waller Otway and Rich. Hussey Moubray, in the Channel and Mediterranean; assumed acting-command, 3 Oct. 1811, of the sloop; was confirmed, 4 Dec. following, into the ; and commanded for a short time, in 1812, the  bomb. While serving in the Montagu he assisted at the evacuation of, a fortified rock in the Faro of Messina, co-operated with the patriots on the coast of Catalonia, and aided at the reduction of Sta. Maura. In the, , and he was stationed principally in the neighbourhood of Gibraltar and Cadiz. He accepted his present rank 9 Aug. 1843.

 SQUIRE. 

entered the Navy 19 July, 1805; passed his examination in 1814; obtained his commission 10 Jan. 1825; was appointed, 16 Nov. following and 19 Feb. 1830, to the and  74’s, Coast-Blockade ships, both commanded by Capt. Hugh Pigot; and, from 15 April, 1831, until the early part of 1834, was employed in the Coast Guard. – Goode and Lawrence.

 STACPOOLE. 

died about the commencement of 1847. He was youngest son of Geo. Stacpoole, Esq., of Cragbrien, co. Clare, by Jane, daughter of Andrew Lysaght, Esq., of Kilcoman, co. Clare, who married Mary, sister of Hon. Matthias Finucane, one of the Judges of the Common Pleas in Ireland. He was brother of the present Very Reverend Wm. Henry Stacpoole, D.D., of Cragbrien, Dean of Kilfenora; and of the late Lieut.-Colonel Hugh Stacpoole, of the 45th Regt.

This officer entered the Navy, 2 Nov. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capts. Hon. Michael De Courcy and Thos. Bertie. In that ship, of which he became Midshipman in Nov. 1805, he served for two years and eight months on the West India, Halifax, and Channel stations. He then joined the 80, bearing the flag of the Hon. M. De Courcy, with whom he sailed in the spring of 1809 for the Brazils in the  38, and continued there employed, in the  80, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 23 Jan. 1812. In the he accompanied Sir John Duckworth in pursuit of a French squadron to the West Indies and coast of America, and assisted, in Jan. 1809, in embarking the remains of Sir John Moore’s army at Corunna. From 1813 until May, 1815, he served in the 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Edw. Griffith, 38, Capt. Hyde Parker,  38, Capts. Alex. Gordon and Geo. Burdett, and 36, Capt. Wm. Mounsey, all on the Halifax station, where he was further, from 9 Feb. 1818 until promoted to the rank of Commander 7 Dec. following, employed in the 18, Capt. Henry Forbes. He did not afterwards, we believe, go afloat.

Commander Stacpoole married, 29 Oct. 1829, Charlotte, daughter of Wm. Casaubon Purdon, Esq., of Tinerana, co. Clare, Major in the 7th Dragoon Guards, and grandniece of Henry Prettie, first Lord Dunalley. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 STANBURY. 

entered the Navy, 4 July, 1805, as L.M., on board the receiving-ship at Plymouth, Lieut.-Commanders Sam. Gordon and Jas. Leach; and from the following Dec. until Sept. 1808 was employed, the chief part of the time in the capacity of Midshipman, in the gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Spearing Osmer, and 32, Capt. Robt. Howe Bromley, on the Downs, Lisbon, and Brazilian stations. He then served for two years and five months in the 120, flag-ship of Lord Gambier in the Channel; and he next, in the course of 1811-12-13, joined, on the Home station, the  22, Capt. Fras. Augustus Collier, sloop, Capt. Wm. Smith, 98, flag-ship of Sir Harry Burrard Neale,  gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander John Julian, and  16, Capts. Isaac Hawkins Morrison ( for capture of the French frigates La Trave and Clorinde) and Thos. Lamb Poulden Laugharne. He left the vessel last mentioned in Oct. 1814; was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant 4 Feb. 1815; and since 27 July, 1841, has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard.

His eldest son, William Parrymore Stanbury, married, in 1842, Sarah, youngest daughter of the late Commander Joseph Priest, R.N.

