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1184 and, under a shower of musket-balls, cut the rope. Struck with admiration at this act of gallantry, the Captain of the, Sir John Gordon Sinclair, the senior officer present, wrote a letter in his favour strongly recommending him for promotion. In Dec. 1813 Mr. Tod, then in the, united in an unsuccessful attack made by Capt. Josias Rowley, of the 74, upon the town of Leghorn, and while on shore with a division of seamen, received a severe wound in the groin. He took part subsequently, in command of a gun-boat, in a variety of operations on the coast of Italy, including the reduction of Genoa, Towards the close of April, 1814, having obtained a letter from Sir Edw. Pellew to Sir Alex. Cochrane, Commander-in-Chief in North America, he took a passage home in the 38, Capt. Edwards Lloyd Graham, and, immediately on his arrival, sailed for that station in the  40. On reaching his destination he was received by Sir A. Cochrane on promotion on board the 80; in command of the barge belonging to which ship we find him, in Aug. and Sept. of the same year, present at the destruction of Commodore Barney’s flotilla up the Patuxent, the capture of Washington, and the attack upon Baltimore. On 14 Dec. following he had charge of one of the boats of a squadron under Capt. Nicholas Lockyer at the capture, on Lake Borgne, of a flotilla of five American gun-vessels under Commodore Jones, whose resistance was protracted until the British had sustained a loss of 17 men killed and 77 wounded. His conduct in this instance was such as to induce the Commander-in-Chief to report him to the Admiralty as worthy of promotion. After sharing in the operations against New Orleans, where he saw much detached service, he was sent, 14 Feb. 1815, in a boat with 19 men to render assistance to the frigate, at the time aground. Being caught in a heavy gale he was himself driven on shore, and there surrounded by 200 American troops, to whom with the whole of his party, after 5 of them had been wounded, he was under the necessity of surrendering. He was then marched to Mobile, and placed en parole. At the end of 10 days, however, intelligence of the peace arrived and he was liberated. On the return of the to Plymouth he was transferred, in June, 1815, to the  guard-ship, Capt. Wm. Robt. Broughton; and in the following month he took up a commission bearing date 1 March preceding.

Since the war Lieut. Tod has made 16 voyages in a merchant-ship from London to the West Indies. He is at present Agent for Steam-Packets and General Shipping and Insurance Agent at the port of Lossiemouth; and Agent for Lloyd’s, also, in that district. He married, 18 April, 1838, his cousin, Jane, second daughter of John Lawson, Esq., of Chapelton, co. Aberdeen, and has issue one son and five daughters. – Fred. Dufaur.

 TOKER. 

entered the Navy, in 1811, as Sec.-cl. Vol, on board the 36, Capt. John Clavell, stationed in the Mediterranean; whence he returned to England, towards the close of 1814, in the  24, Capt. Joshua Ricketts Rowley. He next, in May, 1815, joined the 38, Capts. Clotworthy Upton, Jas. Haldane Tait, and Arthur Fanshawe, in the West Indies; and, from Aug. 1816 until some time in 1820, he was employed on the Newfoundland station, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the 22 and  28, both commanded by Capt. Thos. Rich. Toker, and frigate, Capt. John Bowker, and as Acting-Lieutenant and Lieutenant (order and commission dated 18 Dec. 1819 and 3 Feb. 1820) in the  sloop, Capts. Wm. Nugent Glascock and Octavius Vernon Harcourt. His last appointment was, 20 Feb. 1826, for a few months, to the 44, Capt. Jeremiah Coghlan. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 TOKER. 

died 27 June, 1846, at 8, Kent Terrace, Regent’s Park, in his 66th year. He was second son of the late John Toker, Esq., of the Oaks, Ospringe, co. Kent.

This officer entered the Navy, in July, 1794, as A.B., on board the 74, Capts. Sir John Orde and Wm. Johnstone Hope; from which ship (employed, latterly under the flag of Vice-Admiral Duncan, on the Home station) he removed as Midshipman, in May, 1795, to the frigate, Capts. Wm. Brown, John Matthews, John Gore, John Newhouse, and Geo. Hope. In her he served for about three years in the North Sea and Channel and off Lisbon. He then joined in succession, on the Mediterranean and North Sea stations, the 74, Capts. Wm. Brown, John Peyton, Thos. Stephenson, and Lord Henry Paulet (under the second named of whom he fought at the battle of the Nile 1 Aug. 1798), 80 and  74, both commanded by Capt. Brown, and, Capt. David Atkins; and on 20 Dec. 1800 he was made Lieutenant into the  hired armed ship, Capt. Thos. Richbell. His next appointments were – 17 Nov. 1801, to the 98, flag-ship of Sir Andrew Mitchell, lying in Bantry Bay – in the course of 1802-3, to the  and  frigates, both commanded by Capt. Jas. Wallis, and 50, Capts. Jas. Nicll Morris and Fras. Wm. Austen, employed at Plymouth and Bristol and oif Boulogne – and 3 March, 1804, to the 74, Capt. J. N. Morris. For his conduct as First-Lieutenant of the ship last mentioned at the battle of Trafalgar he was promoted to the rank of Commander 24 Dec. 1805. He obtained command, in Feb. and Dec. 1808 and Nov. 1813, of the, , and sloops, employed chiefly in the Baltic, off the coast of Scotland, and at Sheerness; he was advanced to Post-rank 4 Dec. 1813; and he was afterwards, in March and Nov. 1815 and Feb. 1817, appointed to the  20,  22, and  28, the first stationed off the Scheldt and Ostend, the two others at Newfoundland. He invalided from the Tamar in Nov. 1818; and did not again go afloat. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 TOLCHER. 

entered the Navy, 4 July, 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 38, Capt. Chas. Malcolm. In that ship, of which he was rated Midshipman in June, 1811, he cruized with activity in the Channel, co-operated in 1812-13 with the patriots on the north coast of Spain, and then proceeded to the West Indies; where he served from March, 1814, until July, 1815, in the, Capt. Jas. Andrew Worth, 36, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland, and  74, Capt. Geo. Pringle. He was afterwards employed – from 2 April until 11 July, 1816, in the 50, Capt. Hon. A. Maitland, lying at Chatham – from 28 Sept. 1817 until 9 Dec. 1818, in the  104, flag-ship of Lord Exmouth at Plymouth – and from the latter date until 1 Jan. 1822, in the  60, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Griffith Colpoys, for five months Acting- Lieutenant in the 26, Capt. Edw. Collier, again in the Newcastle, and as Acting-Lieutenant and Lieutenant (order and commission dated 3 June and 22 Aug. 1821) in the 20, Capt. Aaron Tozer, all on the coast of North America. He has since been on half-pay. He served in the, , and Newcastle in the capacity of Master’s Mate.

 TOLLEMACHE. 

, born 26 April, 1800, is second son of Hon. Chas. Tollemache, of Harrington, co. Northampton, by