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1236 obtained the Captain’s Good Service Pension 10 Feb. 1842; and accepted his present rank 1 Oct. 1846. We may add that in Sept. and Oct. 1841 he was Senior officer in the Bay of Tunis, with the 84 and  74 under his orders.

The Earl married, first, 10 Aug. 1812, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Sam. Whitbread, Esq., M.P., of Cardington, co. Bedford. That lady dying 1 March, 1843, he married, secondly, 8 Dec. 1846, Sarah, widow of the late Edw. Milward, Esq., of Hastings, and daughter of the Rev. Wm. Whitear, Prebendary of Chichester. By his first wife he has issue three sons (the eldest an officer in the Army) and four daughters, one of whom, Maria, is married to Wm. Brodie, Esq., second son of Sir Benj. Brodie, Bart. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 WALE. 

, while belonging to the 18, Capt. Hon. Henry Keppel, served in a native-built boat armed with a brass 6-pounder and 2 swivels, and manned with 18 officers, seamen, and marines, under the command of Lieut. Jas. Hunt, at the destruction, 21 May, 1843, off Point Datou, on the coast of Borneo, of one, and the defeat of the other, of two piratical proas, each carrying about 2 guns and 50 men, by whom the British had been attacked. He passed his examination 2 July, 1842; was nominated, in 1845, Mate of the steam-frigate, Capt. Wm. Fred. Lapidge, on the south-east coast of America; and on the occasion of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 10 March, 1846, was appointed to the 8, Capt. Geo. Sprigg, fitting for the coast of Africa. He removed, 6 Nov. following, to the steam-sloop of 287 horse-power, Capt. John Foote, on the Cape of Good Hope station; where he has been serving, since 16 March, 1848, in the  18, Capt. Thos. Belgrave.

 WALFORD. 

entered the Navy, 14 Dec. 1802, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 50, armée en flûte, Capt. Dan. Woodriff. On his return from a voyage to New South Wales, he removed as Midshipman, in Oct. 1804, to the 74, Capts. John Loring, John Cooke, and Edw. Rotherham; under the second-named of whom, after cruizing in the Channel, he fought at Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805. He continued employed in the in the Mediterranean until Aug. 1807; and on then joining the  74, Capts. Jas. Walker and Adam Mackenzie, he sailed in escort of the Royal Family of Portugal for the Brazils, where he was received, in Aug. 1809, on board the 80, flag-ship of Hon. Michael de Courcy. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 1 June, 1810 and was subsequently appointed – 19 Dec. following, to the 18, Capt. John Carter, also on the South American station – 26 Aug. 1811, to the  16, Capt. Jas. Boxer – 11 Aug. 1812, to the sloop, Capt. Alex. Kennedy, off Gottenborg – and 5 June, 1813, 5 Dec. 1814, and 6 April, 1815, to the 74,  98, and  74, employed (they were each commanded by Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland) on the coast of North America, at Cork, and in the Bay of Biscay. While serving in the (in which vessel he was wrecked near Boulogne 3 May, 1812) he assisted, in company with the  gun-brig, at the capture of one, carrying 4 guns and 60 men, and the destruction of another, of a flotilla of 12 gun-vessels, under a heavy fire of four hours from the enemy’s batteries and musketry near Calais 10 Nov. 1811. The he left from ill health in March, 1813. He was Senior of the when Napoleon Buonaparte surrendered to that ship off Rochefort 15 July, 1815. He was placed on half-pay in Sept. of the same year, and has not been since afloat.

Lieut. Walford married Margaret Catherine, eldest daughter of Geo. Fred. Meadows, Esq., and niece of the present Daniel Chas. Meadows, Esq., of Witnesham Hall and Great Bealings, co. Suffolk. – J. Hinxman.

 WALKER, K.C.B., K.L.H., K.R.G., K.I.C, K.S.A., K.R.E.

entered the Navy 5 July, 1812; and was made Lieutenant, 6 April, 1820, into the 18, Capt. Isham Fleming Chapman, on the Jamaica station. He returned to England about the commencement of 1822; and was next appointed – 17 Jan. 1823, to the 26, Capt. Geo. Wickens Willes, in which vessel he was employed until the close of 1826 in South America and on the coast of Africa – 7 Sept. 1827 and 28 March, 1828, to the 28 and  bomb, Capts. Hon. Chas. Orlando Bridgeman and Stephen Lushington, both in the Mediterranean – 6 May, 1829, and 28 April, 1830, to the 84 and  120, flag-ships of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, on the same station – and 27 Aug. 1831, as Senior, to the  50, Capt. Hugh Pigot. While serving as First-Lieutenant In the he distinguished himself by the valuable assistance he afforded his Captain, Lushington, at the reduction, in Oct. 1828, of Morea Castle, the last hold of the Turks in the Peloponnesus. For his services he was created a Knight of the Legion of Honour of France; and of the Redeemer of Greece. He continued employed in the on the Mediterranean station until the spring of 1834; and on 15 July in that year he was advanced to the rank of Commander. He served afterwards, from 1 Sept. 1836 until advanced to his present rank 24 Nov. 1838, as Second-Captain, again in the Mediterranean, on board the 80, Capts. Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie and Sir Thos. Fellowes; and he held command, from 16 April until Oct. 1845, and from 23 April, 1846, until Aug. 1847, of the 110 and  50, the former bearing the flag of Sir John West at Devonport, the latter stationed in the Pacific. In 1848 he was appointed Surveyor of the Navy.

Capt. Walker was for some time a Rear and Vice-Admiral in the Turkish service; and for the conduct he displayed in command of the Ottoman naval forces during the operations on the coast of Syria, including the attack upon Beyrout and the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, he was nominated an Honorary Knight Commander of the Bath 12 Jan. 1841. He was made a Knight also of the Second Class of the Iron Crown of Austria, of the Second Class of St. Anne of Russia, and of the Second Class of the Red Eagle of Prussia. Sir Baldwin married, 9 Sept. 1B34, Mary Catherine Sinclair, only daughter of the late Commander John Worth, R.N. (1809), of Oakley House, Suffolk, and grand-daughter of the late Capt. Patrick Sinclair, R.N., of Duren, Caithness, N.B.

 WALKER. 

entered the Navy, 1 Jan. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 36; in which frigate and in the  36 and  98 he continued employed in the Channel under the command of Capts. Joseph Sydney Yorke, Hon. John Murray, and Geo. Murray, until May, 1802 – a great part of the time as Midshipman. From the latter date he did not again go afloat until 27 Jan. 1811. He then joined, in the capacity of Master’s Mate, the 64, Capt. Robt. Honyman, in the Baltic; and next, in Jan. 1812 and Dec. 1813, the and  74’s, flag-ships of Rear-Admiral Philip Chas. Durham – the former stationed off Rochefort. During his passage, in the, to the West Indies, Mr. Walker assisted at the capture, 16 and 20 Jan. 1814, of the Alcmène and Iphigénie French frigates, of 44 guns each. At the taking of the Alcmène he distinguished himself among the boarders – that ship offering much resistance before her colours could be hauled down. On 1 Sept. following he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the 36, Capt. John 