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Rh months, to the 74, Capt. Ross Donnelly, lying at Sheerness – 14 Jan. 1815, as Senior, to the  sloop, Capt. John Skekell, with whom he served until Nov. 1816, at Newfoundland, along the shores of Labrador, and on other parts of the coast of North America – 15 April, 1824, to the Coast Blockade, in which he remained as a Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the  74, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, until Nov. 1825 – and 23 Nov. 1829, to the charge of the Semaphore station on Chatley Heath, near Cohham, in Surrey. The latter appointment he retained until 23 Nov. 1834.

Lieut. White is at present Deputy-Dock-Master in the service of the East and West India Dock Company. He married, first, 17 Aug. 1817, Mary, daughter of Jeremiah Russell, Esq., Master R.N. (1805); and (that lady dying 21 Feb. 1838) secondly, 11 Sept. 1841, Maria, widow of Mr. Wm. Jeeves, Builder, of Hitchin, Herts. By his former marriage he had issue two sons and four daughters. His eldest son died second officer of the West Indian at Jamaica 6 May, 1841. 

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entered the Navy, 2 Feb. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 32, Capt. Geo. M‘Kinley; with whom, after having cruized in the North Sea, he removed, in the following summer, to the 38. In that frigate, of which he became Midshipman, he continued very actively employed, in the manner detailed in, until wrecked, 10 Aug. 1810, on a reef of rocks, near Point Coura, in the island of Malta. He served afterwards, from Nov. 1810 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 20 Feb. 1815, with Capts. Patrick Campbell, Adam Drummond, and Thos. Briggs in the 36 and  74, on the Mediterranean, Jamaica, and Cork stations. His last appointments afloat were, 27 June, 1822, to the 78, Capt. Adam Mackenzie, lying at Plymouth – and 23 March, 1829, to the command, which he retained until June, 1834, of the  Revenue-cruizer. He was subsequently employed in the Quarantine service at Standgate Creek.

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is youngest son of the late.

This officer entered the Navy, 15 April, 1826, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 76, Capts. Edw. Durnford King and Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie; in which ship he continued to serve off Lisbon and in the Mediterranean, a great part of the time as Midshipman, until transferred, in Nov. 1830, to the 74, on the latter station. He returned to England in Sept. 1831; and was employed next as Midshipman and Mate (he passed his examination 6 Sept. 1832) – from 5 Dec. 1831 until 30 April, 1833, in the 110, flagship of Sir Manley Dixon at Plymouth – from 19 Sept. 1833 until 14 March, 1834, in the  packet, Lieut.-Commander Wentworth Parsons Croke, on the Falmouth station – from 26 March, 1834, until June, 1837, in the  78, Capt. Wm. Elliott, in the Mediterranean – from 18 Nov. 1837 until 21 Dec. 1839, in the 36, Capt. Edw. Boxer, on particular service – and from 28 Feb. 1840 until rewarded for his services on the coast of Syria and at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre with a commission dated 5 Nov. in the same year, in the 84, Capt. Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley. His succeeding appointments were – 15 Jan. and 17 April, 1841, to the 74 and  80, Capts. Edw. Harvey and Sir David Dunn, on the Mediterranean and Lisbon stations – and 4 Dec. 1843, as Senior Lieutenant (the had been paid off 16 Aug. preceding) to the  sloop, Capt. Thos. Lewis Goooh, fitting for the coast of Africa. The latter vessel, of which he obtained acting-command 20 March, 1847, he brought home and paid off towards the close of that year. He has not been since afloat.

His commission as Commander bears date 28 Aug. 1847.

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entered the Navy 15 Sept. 1813; passed his examination in 1822; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 1 July, 1825. He has since been on half-pay. – Messrs. Ommanney.

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died at the close of 1846.

This officer entered the Navy, in Oct. 1780, as a Boy, on board the 98, Capts. John Nicholson Inglefield, Alex. Hood, and John Knight, bearing the flag of Sir Sam. Hood. On 29 April, 1781, he was present as Midshipman in the partial action fought off Martinique between the fleet under the latter officer, consisting of 18 sail-of-the-line, and that under the Comte de Grasse, who had with him 24 ships-of-the-line and two 50’s. He shared next in Rear-Admiral Graves’ partial engagement with the Comte de Grasse off the Chesapeake 5 Sept. 1781; and on 25 Jan. 1782 he was present when Sir Sam. Hood, with 22 sail-of-the-line, took up the anchorage at St. Kitt’s in defiance of 29 line-of-battle-ships under the same French Admiral; who, on the following day, made two furious but vain attacks upon the British. Mr. White was also a participator in the glories of 9 and 12 April, 1782. On the latter occasion it was he who, at the dawn of day, was the first to descry the dismasted Zélée, which brought down De Grasse for her protection, and led to the brilliant victory that was that day achieved. From June, 1783 (in the course of which month he left the ), until June, 1786, he served in the 32, Capt. O’Hara, in the Mediterranean; between the latter date and the early part of 1788 he was employed at Portsmouth, again under Sir Samuel (then Lord) Hood, in the  74 and the ; and in March, 1789, he joined the  50, in which ship, bearing the flag of Sir Rich. Hughes at Halifax, he continued to serve until June, 1792, as Midshipman, and as Fourth, Third, Second, and First-Lieutenant (commission dated 19 July, 1790). His succeeding appointments were – 14 Nov. 1792, 2 June, 1794, and 4 Aug. 1795, to the 18, Capts. Sir Harry Burrard and Lord Augustus FitzRoy, and 74 and  98, both commanded by Capt. Chas. Powell Hamilton, and all stationed in the Channel – 15 July, 1796,to the 98, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Hyde Parker in the West Indies – 10 Sept. 1797, to the acting-command of the  brig, of 18 guns, on the same station – 4 Oct. following, to the, as before – and 28 June, 1798, to the acting-command of the  18. While First-Lieutenant in the (a post he had for some time filled in the ) he was in company, 6 Nov. 1794, with the  74, Capt. Rich. Rodney Bligh, when the two ships were fallen in with and chased by a French squadron under Rear-Admiral Nielly, consisting of five 74’s, three frigates, and a corvette. The, after a noble resistance, was captured, but the , although closely pursued by two of the 74’s and one frigate, who devoted themselves to her in particular, escaped, owing chiefly to the unremitting exertions of Mr. White, who did not quit the deck for 12 hours, and who by his knowledge of her construction was enabled to improve her sailing to an extent that ensured her safety. On the morning of 17 Sept. 1797, being then in command of the, he was for 35 minutes in warm action, off St. Domingo, with Le Trompeur, French privateer-brig, of 16 guns and 160 men. The enemy, at the end of that period, made all sail to get away, but the, as soon as she had repaired her running- rigging, went in pursuit, and, on overtaking her, renewed the conflict with so much spirit that in 25 minutes, during the greater part of which time the yard-arms of the two brigs were locked together