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1188 co. Gloucester, and Highway, co. Wilts, a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Gloucestershire, and a Retired-Commander R.N. (Lieut. 1794), who died 4 April, 1844, aged 67, by Mary Ann, daughter of the Rev. John Bryen, of co. Somerset. His grandfather, Henry Tonge, Esq., married Anne Eliza, daughter of Vice-Admiral Harry Norris, himself the son of Admiral Sir John Norris, by Hon. Elizabeth Aylmer, daughter of Matthew Lord Aylmer. His eldest brother, Augustus Henry, is a Captain in the Wiltshire Militia; and his next, John Henry, a Captain in the Army. One of his sisters, Lucy Elizabeth, is wife of the Rev. Augustus Wm. Noel, son of the late Capt. Hon. Fred. Noel, R.N. (1819).

This officer passed his examination 1 March, 1837; served in the Mediterranean and at Devonport, as Mate, in the 50, Capt. Wm. Walpole, and 120, flag-ship of Sir David Milne, from 1841 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 28 May, 1845; and from 20 June in the latter year until paid off in 1848, was employed on the Home station and again in the Mediterranean in the  120, Capts. John Neale Nott and Chas. Hope.

 TORLESSE. 

entered the Navy, 10 May, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 50, Capts. Henry Bazely and Edw. Galwey; under the former of whom he escorted the East India trade to and from St. Helena, and conveyed the Earl of Caledon to the Cape of Good Hope. After visiting the Mediterranean he followed Capt. Galwey, in April, 1809, as Midshipman (a rating he had attained in Dec. 1807), into the 50, In which ship, commanded next by Capt. Woodley Losack, we find him, in the course of the same year, accompanying the expedition to the Walcheren. From Feb. 1810 until Dec. 1811, and from the latter date until March, 1814, he was employed as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, chiefly on the coast of North America, in the 36, Capt. Rich. Byron, and 18, Capt. David Scott; he then returned to England in the  frigate, Capt. Wm. Bowen Mends; and from the following June until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 11 May, 1815, he served on the Portsmouth station in the brig, Capt. Augustus Baldwin. He has since been on half-pay.

Lieut. Torlesse has been for some time a Police Magistrate at Van Diemen’s Land.

 TOTTENHAM. 

is ninth son of Lord Robt. Ponsonby Tottenham, D.D., Bishop of Clogher, by Alicia, third daughter of Cornwallis Maude, 1st Viscount Hawarden; and grandson of Charles, 1st Marquess of Ely. His eldest brother, Charles John, is a Lieutenant in the 2nd Life Guards; another, Cornwallis, is in the Hon.E.I.Co.’s service; and a third, William, died a Lieutenant R.N.

This officer entered the Navy in 1834; passed his examination 6 Sept. 1841; and in 1842-3 was nominated Mate of the 36 and  18, Capts. Fred. Thos. Michell and Fras. Scott, on the Mediterranean and African stations. As a reward for the gallant and dashing manner in which, in a 4-oared gig he went, 13 Aug. 1844, in pursuit of, maintained a running action with, and ultimately drove on shore (where she was abandoned by her crew, 18 in number, several of whom were killed and wounded) a Brazilian brig of 200 tons (afterwards got off by the ) carrying 2 4-pounders, a barrel of powder, a quantity of langridge shot, and a number of muskets, swords, and bayonets, Mr. Tottenham, on the urgent recommendation of his Captain, was promoted, 27 Dec. following, to the rank of Lieutenant. His appointments have since been – 4 June, 1845, to the troop-ship, Capt. Chas. Geo. Edw. Patey – 6 Nov. 1846, as First, to the steam-sloop, of 350 horse-power, Capts. Graham Eden Wm. Hamond and Thos. Henry Mason, equipping for the East Indies – 25 Nov. 1847, as Additional, to the 50, bearing the flag on that station of Rear-Admiral Sam. Hood Inglefield – and, 15 June, 1848, to the 44, Capt. Hon. Henry Keppel, also in the East Indies, where he is now serving.

 TOTTENHAM. 

died 14 Aug. 1847, at Woodstock, co. Wicklow. He was fifth son of the Bishop of Clogher; and brother of the present

This officer entered the Navy 2 Feb. 1826; served as Midshipman in the 46, Capt. Edm. Lyons, at the siege, in Oct. 1828, of Morea Castle, the last hold of the Turks in the Peloponnesus; passed his examination 26 April, 1832; and at the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 23 Nov. 1841, had been for some time employed as Mate in the 104, flag-ship of Sir Henry Digby at Sheerness. His succeeding appointments were – 1 Dec. 1841, to the 18, Capt. Hon. Henry Keppel, fitting for the East Indies, whence he returned at the close of 1843 – in Dec. 1844, to the  18, Capt. Geo. Jas. Hay, equipping at Devonport – and 4 Feb. 1845, to the 80, Capt. Geo. Wickens Willes, with whom he served on the Home and Mediterranean stations until within a short time of his death. While attached to the he assisted at the capture of Woosung and Shanghae, took part in various operations on the Yang-tse-Kiang river, and commanded a tender in an attack upon a horde of Borneo pirates. – Joseph Woodhead.

 TOUZEAU. 

was born 4 Sept. 1806.

This officer entered the Navy, 6 Aug. 1821, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 18, Capt. Wm. Hendry, stationed on the coast of North America. In Aug. 1825 he became Midshipman of the 74, Capt. Walter Bathurst, employed at first off Lisbon and next in the Mediterranean, where he fought at the battle of Navarin 20 Oct. 1827. On that occasion he was the senior unpassed Midshipman on board the. In July, 1828, six months after he had been discharged from that ship, he was received on board the schooner, Lieut.-Commanders Edw. Smith and Geo. Wood; under the latter of whom he was wrecked 7 Feb. 1829, off South Yarmouth, and lost nearly all he possessed. Having passed his examination 6 Aug. 1828, he was successively, in March, June, and Nov. 1829, nominated Mate of the 74, Capt. Alex. Wilmot Schomberg, 78, Capt. John Ferris Devonshire, and  Revenue-cruizer, Lieut.-Commanders Sam. Barrett, Wm. Lowcay, and Wm. Lowry, all on the Home station; where he served, from Dec. 1832 until July, 1837, in the, another Revenue-vessel, Lieut.-Commanders Wm. Henry Baker, Jas. Stuart, and Thos. Sam. Hall. He then joined the 28, Capt. Jas. John Gordon Bremer, fitting at Portsmouth; and on 2 Sept. following he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. He was employed afterwards, from 14 Sept. 1837 until 10 Oct. 1838, and from 14 Dec. 1839 until 5 Oct. 1843, In the 28, Capt. John Townshend, and  18, Capts. Talavera  and Louis Symonds Tindal, on the Mediterranean and China stations. In the boats of the vessel last mentioned he was engaged, 29 July, 1840, in an action with three piratical junks of greatly superior force; one of which was taken – the two others effecting their escape. The British in this affair had 2 men killed and 7 wounded; and the enemy about 50 killed. Mr. Touzeau also took an active part in the operations against Canton; and on that city being ransomed he was sent, on the morning of 26 May, 1841, accompanied by a detachment of Sepoys and of the 49th Regiment as