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BOTELER—BOTT—BOULDERSON. brother of – of the late Commander Thos. Boteler, R.N., who died, 28 Nov. 1829, while commanding the surveying-vessel on the coast of Africa – of the late Lieut.-Col. Rich. Boteler, R.E., an officer who served throughout the whole of the Peninsular war – and of Capt. Robt. Boteler, R.E.; nephew of the late Admiral Sir John Harvey, K.C.B., the late Vice-Admiral Sir Thos. Harvey, K.C.B., and the present Capt. Edw. Harvey, R.N.; and cousin of Commanders Henry, John, and Thomas Harvey, R.N. His half-brother, Wm. Fuller Boteler, Esq., Q.C., is a Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn, Recorder of the City of Canterbury the towns and ports of Sandwich, Hythe, and New Romney, and the borough of Deal, and Steward of the town of Fordwich.

This officer entered the Navy, 4 Oct. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 64, commanded by his uncle, Capt. John Harvey, with whom he was present, as Midshipman, in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, 22 July, 1805. He continued to be employed under the same officer (with the exception of a period of 17 months, from Jan. 1808, to June, 1809, when he appears to have been doing duty on board the 74, Capt. Archibald Collingwood Dickson, on the Baltic station) in the  and  74’s, and as Master’s Mate, in the  100, in the West Indies and Mediterranean. On the latter station, in the, one of a squadron under Sir Geo. Martin, he witnessed the destruction, 26 Oct. 1809, of the French line-of-battle ships Robuste and Lion; and, in the, he assisted at the blockade of Toulon in 1811. Mr. Boteler, who next joined the 120, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Pellew, received a commission appointing him to that ship, 18 Sept. 1812. He subsequently became attached, 22 Oct. following, to the 18, Capts. Alex. Renton Sharpe and Benj. Crispin, on the Mediterranean station – 6 Sept. 1813, as First-Lieutenant, to the 18, Capt. Thos. Dench, similarly employed – in Dec. of the same year, to the 18, Capt. John Bellamy, on the Irish station – and, 22 Aug. 1815, as Senior, to the  50, from which ship, after serving for three years in the Leeward Islands under the flag of his relative, Rear Admiral J. Harvey, he was paid off in April, 1819. Commander Boteler, who was promoted to the rank he now holds 12 Aug. ensuing, was afterwards employed for three years, from 20 June, 1833, until 1836, in the Coast-Guard. He also held, as Additional-Commander of the and  guard-ships at Sheerness, the Superintendence of the Packet Establishment at Dover, from 16 Sept. 1837, until the summer of 1841; and from 17 Aug. in that year until the close of 1846, he was again occupied as an Inspecting Commander in the Coast Guard.

He married, 1 Dec. 1829, Henrietta, daughter of the late Allan Bellingham, Esq., and niece of the late Sir Wm. Bellingham, Bart., of Castle Bellingham, by whom he has issue a daughter.

 BOTELER. 

, born at Eastry, co. Kent, 11 Feb. 1796, is next brother of

This officer entered the Navy, 6 May, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the prison-ship, Lieut.-Commander Matthew Bowles Alt, lying in the river Medway, where he successively joined the  74, Commodore Geo. Fowke, and the 74, commanded by his relative, Capt. Thos. Harvey. In Feb. 1810, he became Midshipman of the 64, bearing the flag in the Baltic of Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon; and, while afterwards serving on the same station, in the  64, Capt. Robt. Williams, we find him engaged in several boat affairs with the enemy. During the three years and a half immediately preceding his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 19 Sept. 1815, Mr. Boteler appears to have been further employed, principally in the North Sea and West Indies, on board the and  74's, Capts. Thos. Harvey and Thos. Boys, and 36, Capt. Nath. Day Cochrane. His succeeding appointments were – 3 Oct. 1815, to the 60, flag-ship in the Leeward Islands of his uncle, Rear-Admiral John Harvey – 7 Feb. 1820, to the  74, Capts. T. Harvey and Thos. Jas. Maling, guard-ship at Sheerness, whence he was detached for nine months in 1821-2, in command of the tender, to cruize in the North Sea, and was afterwards lent to the  yacht – 3 Dec. 1822, as First Lieutenant, to the  18, Capt. Geo. Fred. Rich, whom he accompanied to the West Indies – 1 May, 1823, to the 74, Capts. G. F. Rich and Jas. Lillicrap, on the latter station, whence, after commanding for three months the schooner, ill health obliged him to invalid in the following September – 30 Aug. 1825, to the  74, Capt. John Acworth Ommanney, by whom, subsequently to the battle of Navarin, he was employed, in charge of the  10, off Lisbon – and, in Sept. 1828, to the  yacht, Capts. Sir Michael Seymour, Sir Wm. Hoste, and Geo. Mundy, lying at Portsmouth, whence he was sent, again in command of a tender, the 10, to Gibraltar, the Brazils, and West Indies. Since 14 Jan. 1830, the date of his last promotion, Commander Boteler has been on half-pay.

He married, 15 Aug. 1832, Helen Agnes, fifth daughter of the late Jas. West, Esq., of Bryanstone Square, London, and by that lady has issue a son and four daughters. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 BOTT. 

entered the Navy 2 Dec. 1823; passed his examination in 1830; and obtained his commission 15 Oct. 1832. He afterwards joined – 7 Nov. 1832, the 76, gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Thos. Hastings – 1 March, 1834, the 84, Capt. Hon. Josceline Percy, in the Mediterranean – 5 July, 1837, and 18 Oct. 1840, the  78, and  120, flag-ships, on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations, of Sir John Acworth Ommanney. He went on half-pay towards the close of 1841.

Lieut. Bott is at present employed as Superintendent of Convicts at Norfolk Island, New South Wales. – Messrs. Chard.

 BOULDERSON. 

entered the Navy, 10 Sept. 1796, as A.B., on board the 74, Capt Henry D’Esterre Darby; under whom, in the following month, he attained the rating of Midshipman, and was present, 1 Aug. 1798, at the battle of the Nile. He next served with the same officer, from May, 1800, to Sept. 1802 (in the course of which year he passed his examination), on board the 74; and on 3 Sept. 1803, was made Lieutenant from the  74, flag-ship in the West Indies of Sir John Thos. Duckworth, into the 64, Capt. Volant Vashon Ballard. His ensuing appointments were – in 1803 and 4, to the sloop, Capt. Herring, again to the, and to the  74, Capt. Chas. Brisbane – 15 Feb. 1805, to the 16, Capts. Phillp Dumaresq, Edwin Henry Chamberlayne, and Robt. Lisle Coulson, from which ship, after attending, we believe, the expedition to the Rio de la Plata, he invalided 10 March, 1808 – 1 Dec. following, to the sloop, Capt. Martin White, on the Jersey station – 22 Nov. 1811 (after two years of half-pay), to the  bomb, Capts. John Griffith and Wm. Fairbrother Carroll, employed at the defence of Cadiz – 25 March, 1813, to the command of the hired transport, on the Mediterranean station, which he retained until 25 Sept. 1814 – and lastly 29 May, 1815, to the  16, Capts. David Ewen Bartholomew and Fras. Le Hunte lying in the Downs. He was paid off from the