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Rh  (now Coghill); he was officially promoted 24 April, 1815; and he was subsequently appointed 25 Sept. in the latter year, to the 36, Capt. Wm. Paterson, stationed in the Channel, where he served until June, 1817 – 21 May, 1827, to the Falmouth packet, Capt. Wm. King – and 3 Dec. 1828, to the command of the brig, also employed as a packet on the Falmouth station. Since 1830, in the course of which year he left the vessel last mentioned, he has been on half-pay.

 WALKER. 

entered the Navy, in 1796, as Midshipman, on board the frigate, Capt. John Manley, with whom, after serving on the coast of Ireland and in the North Sea, he removed, in 1799, to the  74. In that ship, which bore the flag of Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley, he continued employed in the Channel during the remainder of the war. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 29 April, 1802. His subsequent appointments were, on the Home and occasionally on the Lisbon stations – 29 June, 1802, and 15 Jan. 1805, to the and  sloops, Capts. R. J. Neve and Wm. Goate – 11 Jan. and 2 Aug. 1806, to the 64, flag-ship of Admiral Rowley (at the Nore), and  74, Capt. Jas. Nicoll Morris – 14 Aug. 1807, to the 32, Capt. Hon. Geo. Poulett – 22 Oct. 1810 (he had quitted the in the preceding Jan.), to the  32, Capt. Geo. Paris Monke, under whom he was wrecked 18 Dec. following, off St. Abb’s Head – 11 Feb. 1811, for a short time, to the 38, Capt. Geo. Tobin – in March, 1812, and March, 1813, to the and  74’s – and 3 Nov. 1813 (a few weeks after ill health had obliged him to leave the ), to the  36, Capt. Hon. Wm. Gordon. While belonging to the he commanded her boats, 13 Dec. 1810, at the capture in the Cove of Siveraag, on the coast of Norway, of two Danish cutter-privateers, one mounting four, the other two guns. He was paid off from the 20 July, 1814; and was invested with his present rank 25 March, 1834. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 WALKER. 

was born 4 Feb. 1817.

This officer entered the Navy 5 Nov. 1830; passed his examination 25 Feb. 1837; and served as Mate of the 42, Capt. Thos. Bourchier, during the operations on the coast of China; where he assisted at the capture of Canton, Amoy, Chinghae, and Tsekee. As a reward for his conduct he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 8 Oct. 1841. His appointments have since been – 16 April, 1842, to the 16, Capt. Joseph Pearse, in the East Indies – 5 Sept. 1843, six months after his return to England, to the  26, Capt. Sir Thos. Raikes Trigge Thompson, in which ship, stationed in the Pacific, he served for about three years and a-half – and 16 July, 1847, to the 24, Capt. Thos. Rodney Eden, under whom he has been since employed on the coast of Africa, and again in the Pacific. – Joseph Woodhead.

 WALKER. 

(a) entered the Navy 26 Sept. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 80, Capt. Geo. Fred. Ryves, stationed in the Mediterranean. In July, 1804, he became Midshipman to the 74, Capts. John Loring, John Cooke, and Edw. Rotheram; in which ship, after serving at the blockade of Brest, Rochefort, and Cadiz, we find him participating, 21 Oct. 1805, in the glories of Trafalgar. On removing next to the 80, flag-ship of Sir John Borlase Warren, he was afforded an opportunity, 13 March, 1806, of witnessing the surrender (while in quest of a French squadron with Jerome Buonaparte on board) of the Marengo 80, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule. In the following Dec. he joined Rear-Admiral Geo. Murray in the 64; and in July, 1807, having been lent to the  36, Capt. Peter Heywood, he took part in the unsuccessful attack upon Buenos Ayres. After again serving under the flag of Sir John B. Warren in the 74 and other ships on the Halifax station he was received, in Nov. 1808, on board the  32, Capt. Sam. John Pechell. On his arrival in her in the West Indies he contributed, 22 Jan. 1809, to the capture (the British ships 32 and  18 in company) of the French 40-gun frigate La Topaze, after a very spirited action fought chiefly between the  and the enemy; and in the following month he co-operated in the reduction of Martinique. In Oct. of the same year he joined, first the 36, Capt. John Dick, and next, as Acting-Lieutenant, the  sloop, Capt. Fred. Hickey. On his return to England as Acting-Lieutenant in the former ship, to which he had gone back, he was officially promoted 3 Oct. 1810. He served afterwards, until Sept. 1817, on the Home, Baltic, North American, and Mediterranean stations, in the 74, Capt. Philip Wilkinson,  36, Capt. John Joyce,  20, Capt. John Pasco,  schooner, commanded by himself (from 27 July, 1811, until 27 May, 1812),, Capt. Hon. Valentine Gardner, , Capt. Edw. O’Brien Drury, 40, Commodore Edw. W. C. R. Owen, 38, Capt. Edw. Dix, and 50, Capts. Wm. Skipsey and Edw. Chetham. He has since been on half-pay. When in company, in the, with a squadron under the present Sir Chas. Malcolm he aided, 18 July, 1815, in capturing, in the boats, an armed cutter, a praam-brig, and a gun-vessel, together with a convoy reposing under their protection in the harbour of Corrijou. He was slightly wounded in the at the battle of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816.

 WALKER. 

(b) entered the Navy, 1 March, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capts. Elias Harvey and John Larmour; and in the following Oct. was present at the battle of Trafalgar. In the early part of 1806 he joined the 40, Capt. Chas. Lydiard, lying at Spithead, and, in the capacity of Midshipman, the 64, Capts. Isaac Wolley, Henry Wm. Bayntun, and John Barrett. In the latter ship he witnessed the unsuccessful attack made by Lieut.-General Whitelocke on Buenos Ayres in July, 1807. From Feb. 1808 until Feb. 1813 he was employed on the Brazilian, Home, and North American stations in the 38 and  and  74’s, all commanded by Capt. Adam Mackenzie,  80, Capt. Geo. Chas. Mackenzie, and 98 and  74, flag-ships of Admirals Wm. Young and Sir John Borlase Warren. He was then, 26 Feb. 1813, placed in command, with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, of the schooner, also on the American station; where from 8 March following until 26 Aug. 1815 he served as Acting-Lieutenant and Lieutenant (commission dated 28 May, 1813) in the  sloop, Capts. Hon. Henry Dilkes Byng and Henry Litchfield, and 74, Capt. Robt. Barrie. He has since been on half-pay. – Collier and Snee.

 WALKER, formerly ROBERTSON. 

, born 22 June, 1783, is eldest son of the late Jas. Robertson, Esq., a Justice of the Peace and Deputy-Lieutenant for