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1298 , when she bore the flag for a short period of the Board of Admiralty, he was made Commander into the sloop, on the Newfoundland station. This was his last appointment. He was placed on half-pay in Nov. 1815.

Commander Williams was a Magistrate for co. Devon. His only daughter Louisa married, 2 Nov. 1846, Geo. Tobin, Esq., of the Queen’s Royals, son of Major-General Tobin, R.A.

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(b) entered the Navy, 2 March, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 14, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Smith; and in the course of the same year was wrecked in St. Aubin’s Bay, Jersey. He served, from March, 1806, until Oct. 1807, in the and  74’s, both commanded by Capt. Wm. Hargood on the North American and West India stations; and he was employed afterwards as Midshipman and Master’s Mate – from Oct. 1807 until Oct. 1810 in the 74, Capts. Jas. Walker and Adam Mackenzie, on the coast of Brazil, whither he escorted the Royal Family of Portugal – from Oct. 1810 until Dec. 1812, in the 74, flag-ship of Sir Fras. Laforey,, Lieut.-Commander Chas. Brown,, Capt. Thos. Wolrige, and, Capt. Wm. Dowers, all in the West Indies – and from Dec. 1812, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 14 Feb. 1815, in the, Capt. Jas. Nash, and again, Capts. T. Wolrige and Sir John Chas. Richardson. He was appointed an Agent for Transports 9 Jan. 1823; and since 23 Feb. 1834 has been employed as Director of Police at Devonport Dockyard. He had been appointed to the Ordinary at that place 5 June, 1833.

Lieut. Williams obtained a pension of 91l. 5s. per annum for wounds 1 July, 1816. During the session of 1828-9 he received the large silver medal of the Society of Arts for his invention of oars to be worked by one hand. He married, 27 June, 1827, Juliana, only daughter of J. Drinkwater, Esq., of Queen Anne Cottage, Plymouth.

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entered the Navy, in 1802, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. (afterwards Rear-Admiral) Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, stationed off Ferrol. In June, 1805, having proceeded to the West Indies in pursuit of a French squadron which had escaped from Rochefort, he there removed as Midshipman to the 32, Capts. Jonas Rose, Joseph Spear, and Hugh Pigot. In that frigate he assisted at the capture, in Dec. 1807, and March, 1808, of the Danish islands and of the island of Marie-galante. In Dec. 1808, after he had been for a few weeks employed with Capt. Pigot in the 74, he rejoined Sir Alex. Cochrane on board the 98, commanded by Capt. Chas. Dilkes. He returned to England in the early part of 1809 in the 14, Capt. Thos. Pinto; he served from May in that year until Aug. 1810 at Portsmouth in the 44, Lieut.-Commander John Price; and he then joined in succession the  74, flag-ship of Sir Fras. Laforey, the 38, Capt. C. Dilkes, the  again, and the  32, Capt. Dilkes, all on his former station, the West Indies; whence he accompanied the officer last mentioned to the Mediterranean. In July, 1814, at which period he had been for two years and four months discharging the duties of Master’s Mate, he sailed in the 36, Capt. Gawen Wm. Hamilton, for the coast of North America, for the purpose of joining the 80, bearing the flag of his patron Sir A. Cochrane. In command of a pinnace belonging to the latter ship we find him participating in much arduous service up the Chesapeake; and present also, 14 Dec. 1814, with the boats of a squadron under Capt. Nicholas Lockyer, at the capture, on Lake Borgne, 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. While on Lake Borgne he for many weeks never slept out of his boat. For his activity and promptitude of conduct in the execution of his duty he frequently received the thanks of his superiors. He was made Lieutenant, 20 Feb. 1815, on a death-vacancy, into the, armée en flûte, Capts. Hon. Chas. Leonard Irby and Wm. Walpole. He returned home in her from the West Indies in Aug. 1816; and he was employed afterwards – from Dec. 1820 until 1822, in the 46, Capt. Sam. Warren, on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations – from 10 June, 1824, until the commencement of 1831, in the Coast Blockade as a Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the 74 and  42, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Wm. Jas. Mingaye – and from 16 March, 1831, until the summer of 18.33 in the Coast Guard.

During the war Lieut. Williams frequently distinguished himself in cutting-out expeditions in the West Indies and Mediterranean. He has published a lithographic drawing, executed by himself, representing the gallant attack upon the enemy’s vessels on Lake Borgne.

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entered the Navy, 3 Aug. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 38, Capt. Hon. Henry Hotham, with whom, after cruizing in the Channel, he removed, in the spring of 1804, to the  44. In that frigate he escorted the Duke of Sussex from Lisbon to Portsmouth, accompanied the outward-bound East India trade to the line, and visited the coast of North America. He was also present in Sir Rich. Strachan’s action 4 Nov. 1805. On 19 July, 1806, about four months after he had become Midshipman of the of 46 guns and 265 men, Capt. Thos. Lavie, we find him present at the capture, off the Faeroe islands, of the Guerrière French frigate of 50 guns and 317 men, after a severe action, in which the British had but 4 men wounded, and the enemy as many as 50 killed and wounded. For his gallantry in achieving this exploit Capt. Lavie received the honour of knighthood. On the night of 4 March, 1807, the was wrecked off Ushant; and from that period until May, 1814, Mr. Williams was detained a prisoner of war in France. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 6 March, 1815, and has since been on half-pay.

Lieut. Williams has for some time filled an appointment in the Customs. – Messrs. Ommanney.

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entered the Navy 1 Aug. 1822; obtained his first commission 25 June, 1828; and was appointed next – 1 Aug. 1829, to the 18, Capt. Sam. Price, on the Cork station – 2 May and 23 Sept. 1831, to the 46, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, and 28, Capt. Chas. Hope, both in South America, whence he returned in Jan. 1834 – 25 Feb. 1835, to the gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Thos. Hastings – 11 April, 1836, to the 74, Capt. Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley, on the Home station – 19 Aug. 1837, as Senior, for about three months, to the 36, Capt. Edw. Boxer, fitting at Portsmouth – and 10 April, 1838, to the command of the brigantine, of 10 guns, on the coast of Africa. He attained the rank of Commander 28 June, 1838; served in that capacity in the steamer in the Mediterranean (where he assisted at the capture of Sidon and at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre) from 18 July, 1840, until advanced to his present rank