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BOURCHIER—BOURNE. BOURCHIER. 

, born 6 Aug. 1814, is eldest son of This officer entered the Royal Naval College 6 Sept. 1827; and embarked, 27 June, 1829, on board the  46, Capt. Hon. Sir Robt. Cavendish Spencer, with whom he proceeded to the Mediterranean. He passed his examination 14 Aug. 1833; and while afterwards attached as Mate to the 84, Capt. Barrington Reynolds, served during part of the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria, and was present at the blockade of Alexandria. His appointments, since his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 23 Nov. 1841, have been, on the Home station – 14 Feb. 1843, to the gunnery-ship, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings – 18 Dec. 1844, as First, to the 26, Capt. Geo. Mansel – 7 Feb. 1845, to the 80, Capt. Geo. Wickens Willes – and, 8 July, 1845, to the 110, bearing the flag at Devonport of Sir John West, under whom he is now serving.

He married, 5 Dec. 1843, Mary Eliza, eldest daughter of the late Rear-Admiral John Hancock, C.B. – Joseph Woodhead.

 BOURCHIER, K.C.B.

, born in March, 1791, at Chapelizod, near Dublin, is son of the late Major-General Bourchier, of Ardcloncy, co. Clare.

This officer entered the Navy, in July, 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capt. Thos. Macnamara Russell, on the Home station, where, and in the West Indies, he afterwards, until 1 March, 1808, served, as Midshipman, in the 36, Capts. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, Stevens, and Ferrier, 38, Capt. Lord Proby,  and, both bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Sir Sam. Hood, and 74, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral T. M. Russell, under whom he assisted at the reduction of Heligoland in Sept. 1807. On leaving the, Mr. Bourchier, who had just passed his examination, assumed, as Acting-Lieutenant, the command of the hired cutter, but-soon after removed to the  18, Capt. John Richards, to which sloop he was confirmed by the Admiralty 26 Aug. 1808. While attached to the latter vessel he contributed to the destruction of the wreck of H.M.S. on the coast of Holland, was also present at the reduction of Martinique in Feb. 1809, and, on 31 of the following May, commanded a division of boats under Lieut. Lewes at the capture of a French letter-of-marque brig of 16, and schooner of 14 guns, protected by 4 long 8-pounders and 300 soldiers, in Port du Molas, Guadeloupe, where the guns were eventually spiked and the magazines blown up. His subsequent appointments, until paid off at the peace, were – 17 June, 1809, to the 18, Capt. Fras. Alex. Halliday, also in the West Indies – 11 Sept. 1810, to the 74, flag-ship in the Channel of Sir Joseph Sydney Torke – 16 Dec. 1811, to the  16, Capt. F. A. Halliday, on the Leith station – and, 26 Feb. 1813, and 20 June, 1814, to the  74, Capt. John Talbot, and  38, Capt. Hyde Parker, both employed off the coast of North America, under the latter officer he witnessed the surrender of the United States frigate President, and, as on various other occasions, commanded the seamen and marines at the capture of Machias and of two field-pieces from the American militia. After an unemployed interval of exactly four years, Lieut. Bourchier joined, 12 Aug. 1819, the 78, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy in South America, where he acquired, for short periods, the temporary command of the 36, and  24, and was officially promoted to the  sloop, 9 Sept. 1822. He was next in succession appointed, on the same station, to the 36,  18, and  28; and, on 12 Sept. 1827, obtained Post-rank in the  26, in which frigate he returned to England in 1829. From that year Capt Bourchier did not again procure employment until 6 Nov.,1839, when he obtained command of the 42 As here to chronicle each detail of this officer’s very brilliant services during the ensuing campaign in China would lead us far beyond our limits, we must content ourselves in generally stating – that his career on that wide-spread field of action opened with a spirited attack on the batteries at Amoy, 3 July, 1840 – that he afterwards, being left in command at Chusan with a squadron of seven ships-of-war and transports, embarked the troops, and, in pursuance of the orders of Sir J. J. G. Bremer, delivered the island over to the Chinese authorities, in Feb 1841 – that he also commanded the flotilla of boats employed at the first taking of Canton, a brigade of seamen at the storming of the heights in the vicinity of that city during the operations which led to its re-capture, and a division of ships at the taking of Amoy, besides eminently participating in the capture (the second) of Chusan, Chinghae, Ningpo, the attack on the heights of Segoan, the further taking of Tsekee and Chapoo, and the battle of Woosung, on which latter occasion the  was the leading ship – that he had charge of the naval force in the Ningpo River during a part of the winter of 1842, accompanied Rear-Admiral Sir Wm. Parker up the Yang-tse-Kiang, and was second in command at the pacification of Nanking – and that he ultimately returned, with 3,000,000 dollars of the Chinese ransom, to Portsmouth, where he was paid off in March, 1843. The importance of Capt. Bourchier’s services had in the interim been duly acknowledged by his nomination to the C.B. 29 June, 1841, and his subsequent elevation to the dignity of a K.C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. He has been employed, since 20 Sept. 1846, as Captain-Superintendent of Chatham Dockyard.

Sir Thos. Bourchier married, 1 Sept. 1843, Jane Barbara, eldest daughter of Admiral Sir Edw. Codrington, G.C.B. – Hallett and Robinson.

 BOURNE. 

entered the Navy, 23 April, 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the sloop, Capts. Chas. Lock and Geo. Sayer, stationed off the coast of Norway; attained the rating of Midshipman in Dec. 1799; and was for five years employed in that capacity in and  gun-brigs, Lieut.-Commanders Benj. Crispin and Wm. Chivers, on the Home station. After having acted, for a brief period, as Lieutenant of the 16, Capt. John Hancock, he was promoted, 8 April, 1805, to a Sub-Lieutenancy in the  gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Geo. Lewis Kerr. On 16 July following the latter vessel was unfortunately taken by a division of French gun-boats while becalmed off Granville, after a severe action; and from that date until May, 1814, Mr. Bourne, whose commission bears date 20 Nov. 1812, remained in captivity. He was afterwards employed, as First-Lieutenant, from 22 May, 1843, until 1846, of the 110, and  120, commanded at Devonport by Capts. Fred. Wm. Burgoyne and Mauley Hall Dixon, but is at present on half-pay.

 BOURNE. 

entered the Navy, 12 May, 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capt. Edw. Brace, bearing the flag in the Channel of Vice- Admiral Gambler; served as Midshipman, for a few months in 1802, in the 20, commanded by the same officer and by Capt. Henry Hill; then rejoined Vide-Admiral Gambier in the  50, at Newfoundland; became attached, in Jan. 1804, to the  38, Capts. Robt. Dudley Oliver and Peter Parker employed in the Channel and Mediterranean; was made Lieutenant, 4 Jan. 1808, into the 74, Capt. Rich. Henry Alex