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Rh Jan. 1806 he was there nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the 50, Capt. Joseph Edmonds; and on 10 March and 7 Dec. in the same year he was in succession transferred, in a similar capacity, to the  64, Commodore Sir Home Popham, and  64, Capt. Wm. Cuming. In the he was present at the capture and the recapture (by the Spaniards) of Buenos Ayres and the reduction of Maldonado and Goretti. He was confirmed in the rank of Lieutenant 30 April, 1807; he was appointed next, 18 May ensuing and 26 April, 1810, to the sloop, Capt. Henry Hope, and  64, Capt. Henry Heathcote, on the Mediterranean and East India stations (he had invalided from the  23 April, 1808); and on 24 Sept. 1811 (upwards of three months after he had left the Lion) he was promoted to the rank of Commander. He was appointed, 18 Aug. 1818, to the 18, fitting for the St. Helena station; was made Post, 22 Nov. 1820, into the  26, at Jamaica, whence he returned in 1822; and from 4 Feb. 1824 until 1827 was employed in the  28, and as Flag-Captain to Rear-Admiral Willoughby Thos. Lake in the 60, at Halifax. He remained thenceforward on half-pay.

Sir W. S. Wiseman married, first, 8 Jan. 1812, Catherine, second daughter of Sir Jas. Mackintosh, Kt., Recorder of Bombay; and secondly, 5 April, 1827, Eliza, eldest daughter of the Rev. Geo. Davis, B.D., Rector of Cranfield, Bedfordshire. By the former lady, who died in 1822, he has left, with other issue, a son, the present  – Case and Loudonsack.

 WISEMAN, Bart. 

, born 4 Aug. 1814, is eldest son of the late

This officer entered the Royal Naval College 6 Sept. 1827; and embarked, 25 June, 1829, as a Volunteer, on board the 10, Capts. Chas. Graham and Hugh Berners, stationed in the Mediterranean, where he attained the rating of Midshipman. In Feb. 1831 and Nov. 1833 he joined the 28, commanded by his former Captain, Graham, and the  18, Capt. Chas. Pearson, both in South America. He continued to serve in the as Mate until her return to England in Feb. 1837. In the course of the ensuing month he was appointed to the 120, flag-ship of Sir Philip Chas. Durham at Portsmouth; and on 28 June, 1838, at which period he had been for three months stationed on the coast of Scotland for the protection of the fisheries as Senior-Mate in the 10, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Morris, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. He was employed subsequently – from 26 July, 1838, until April, 1840, in the gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings – from 7 April, 1840, until paid off in Aug. 1843, as Gunnery-Lieutenant, in the 80, Capt. Sir David Dunn, in the Mediterranean – and, from 3 Jan. 1844 until promoted to the rank of Commander 7 Feb. 1846, again in the, as First-Lieutenant, under Capts. Sir T. Hastings and Henry Ducie Chads. He served as Second-Captain in the 50, flag-ship of Sir Fras. Wm. Austen in North America and the West Indies, from 20 Nov. 1846 until put out of commission in the spring of 1848.

Sir W. S. Wiseman married, 24 Oct. 1838, Charlotte Jane, daughter of the late Chas. Wm. Paterson, Esq., Admiral of the White, of East Cosham House, Hants, by whom he has issue. – Case and Loudonsaok.

 WITHAM, Kt. 

is third son of the late Wm. Witham, Esq. (of the ancient Yorkshire family of Witham, of Cliffe), by Dorothy, daughter of Thos. Langdale, Esq.; and brother of

This officer entered the Navy, 8 May, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 80, Capts. Henry Lidgbird Ball and Valentine Collard, stationed in the Channel. From June, 1810, until March, 1812, he served in the Baltic as Midshipman (a rating he had attained in the ) in the 74, Capt. Wm. Butterfield; during the next 16 months he was employed at Gibraltar as Master’s Mate in the 22 and  32, both commanded by Capt. Wm. King; he was then, in July, 1813, received as a Supernumerary on board the 74, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Williams at the Nore; and in April, 1814, he joined, again as Master’s Mate, the 60, Capts. Lord Geo. Stuart and Henry Meynell. In her, after serving on the coast of North America and in the West Indies, he proceeded with the flag of Sir Pulteney Malcolm to St. Helena; where he was nominated, 6 Aug. 1816, Acting-Lieutenant of the 46, Capt. Fras. Stanfell. He was officially promoted on his return to England from the Cape of Good Hope, 6 March, 1818; and was subsequently appointed – 3 Oct. 1818, to the 10, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, on the Portsmouth station – 15 Dec. 1821, to the yacht, Capt. Hon. Sir Chas. Paget – 3 Nov. 1824 (upwards of 12 months after he had left the ), to the 120, bearing the flag of Sir Jas. Saumarez at Plymouth – 28 Dec. 1825, as First, to the 10, Capt. Lord Wm. Paget, fitting for the Mediterranean, whence he came home, we believe, at the close of 1826 – and, 29 May, 1828, in a similar capa^ city, to the 24, flag-ship of Hon. Sir C. Paget at Cork. He has been on half-pay since 1831.

Sir Chas. Witham (who received the honour of Knighthood in 1830) married, 18 Nov. 1829, Jane, third daughter of John Hoy, Esq., of Stoke-by-Nayland, co. Suffolk, by whom he has issue.

 WITHAM. 

is brother of

This officer entered the Navy, 8 May, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 80, Capts. Henry Lidgbird Ball, Valentine Collard, and Robt. Plampin, attached to the force in the Channel. In the following Nov. he attained the rating of Midshipman; and in Jan. 1812 he removed with Capt. Plampin to the 98; in which ship he was for two years and a half employed, the greater part of the time as Master’s Mate, on the Mediterranean station. He served afterwards, in the capacity last mentioned, from 23 July, 1814, until 5 Aug. 1815, in the 24, Capts. Hon. Valentine Gardner and Rich. Spencer, on the coast of Ireland – from 6 Aug. 1815 until 25 Dec. 1816, in the 38, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres, on the same station and at Newfoundland – and, from 26 Dec. 1816 until May, 1818, in the 74, bearing the flag of his former Captain, then Rear-Admiral, Plampin, at St. Helena. He was made Lieutenant, 12 May, 1818, into the, commanded at the time by Capt. Robt. Wauchope; he was paid off from that ship (in which he had served at the Cape of Good Hope and at Rio de Janeiro) in Dec. 1819; and he was lastly, from 20 Dec. 1821 until some time in 1822, employed at Sheerness, as First-Lieutenant, in the 10, Capt. Edw. Stewart.

 WODEHOUSE. 

is related to the present Lord Wodehouse.

This officer entered the Navy in 1835; passed his examination 8 Aug. 1842; served for two years at Portsmouth, as Mate, in the gunnery-ship, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings; then joined the 12, Capt. Robt. Harris, and 84, Capt. Fairfax Moresby, both on the Home 