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1320 the attack upon Washington; and at the capture, 15 Jan. 1815, of the U.S. ship President of 56 guns. On leaving the in June, 1815, he took up a commission bearing date 15 Feb. in that year. Since 24 March, 1829, he has had charge of a station in the Coast Guard. He had been previously, for five years, employed in the Coast Blockade, with his name on the books of the, , and again, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch, Wm. Jas. Mingaye, and Hugh Pigot.

Lieut. Woodham married, first, 29 Sept. 1818, a daughter of Philip Duhige, Esq.; and secondly, 25 Oct. 1839, Eleanor Elizabeth, daughter of He has issue eight children.

 WOODIN. 

entered the Navy, 15 July, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 32, Capt. Wm. D’Urban, under whom he was for five years employed in the Mediterranean, a great part of the time as Midshipman and Master’s Mate. He then, in Aug. 1809, joined, in the capacity last mentioned, the 32, Capts. Patrick Tonyn and Robt. Foulis Preston, on the West India station, where he was received, in Jan. 1811, on board the 74, bearing the flag of Sir Fras. Laforey. In that ship, of which he became an Acting and a confirmed Lieutenant, 27 Nov. 1812 and 31 May, 1813, he continued to serve until Aug. 1815 on the coast of North America, under the command of Capt. Robt. Barrie, whose thanks he obtained for his conduct during the operations in the Penobscot against Hamden and Bangor. From 1 Oct. 1830 until 1834 he served as a Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the schooner, Lieut.-Commander Chas. Holbrook, on the Lakes of Canada. Since the latter date he has been on half-pay.

 WOODLEY. 

entered the Navy 1 May, 1827; passed his examination in 1834; and for his services on the coast of Syria and at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 4 Nov. 1840. His succeeding appointments were – 30 Jan. 1841, to the 76, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, in the Mediterranean – 29 March, 1842, as Additional, to the steamer, Capt. Claude Henry Mason Buckle, in South America – and 7 Oct. 1843, as First, to the  steam-sloop, Capts. Chas. Hotham and Edw. Crouch, on the same station. For his conduct during the operations in the Parana, detailed in, he was promoted to the rank of Commander by a commission bearing date 18 Nov. 1845.

 WOODLEY. 

, born 4 Feb. 1793, is son of Wm. Woodley, Esq., at one time Governor-General of the Leeward Islands, and afterwards of Berbice, by Mary, daughter of John Mardenborough, Esq., of St. Christopher’s.

This officer entered the Navy, about the commencement of 1806, as Midshipman, on board the 98, Capt. Sir Harry Burrard Neale; and on 13 March in the same year was present, in company with the  38, at the capture, during a cruize to the westward, of the French 80-gun ship Marengo, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule, after a long running fight in which the  sustained a loss of 10 men killed and 22 wounded. In Oct. 1808 he removed to the above-named, commanded by the present Sir Wm. Parker; and after sharing in much service performed by the boats of that ship, he joined the 120, bearing the flag of Lord Gambier; under whom we find him witnessing the celebrated attack made by Lord Cochrane on the French shipping in Aix Roads. He was subsequently employed in the 40, Capts. Lord Wm. Stuart and Henry Digby, on the Mediterranean station. While there he contributed to the destruction of a fort situated on an island in the Bay of Rosas; and he served also in the boats and on shore at the capture of a fort and of the materials for two frigates on the coast of Corsica. About the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 25 June, 1812, he was appointed to the 98, bearing the flag of Sir H. B. Neale in the Channel: he served next, from Oct. 1812 until July, 1815, chiefly in the East Indies, in the  38, Capt. Murray Maxwell (in which frigate he was wrecked, 2 July, 1813, near the island of Ceylon),  74, flag-ship of Sir Sam. Hood, as First-Lieutenant in the 36, Capt. Sam. Leslie, and in the 36, Capt. Hon. Donald Hugh Mackay; and in Aug., 1815 he was appointed, for five months, to the  yacht, Capt. Geo. Scott. He attained the rank he now holds 11 March, 1816; and has since been on half-pay.

Commander Woodley married a sister of  – Messrs. Ommanney.

 WOODMAN. 

entered the Navy 12 April, 1833; and obtained his commission 14 Nov. 1839. He was employed afterwards – from 15 Nov. 1839 until the spring of 1841, in the 26, Capt. Alex. Milne, on the North America and West India station – from 9 Nov. 1841 until July, 1844, as Additional-Lieutenant and Lieutenant, in the 110, Capts. Geo. Fred. Rich and Sir Chas. Sullivan, flag-ship the greater part of the time of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, in the Mediterranean – and from 22 Sept. 1846 until the end of 1848 in the Coast Guard. – Joseph Woodhead.

 WOODMAN. 

entered the Navy, 23 July, 1797, as Midshipman, on board the 74, Capts. John Markham and Bendall Robt. Littlehales, employed at first in the Channel and then in the Mediterranean. While on the latter station he was present at the surrender of the island of Minorca, in an attack made on the town of Cambrelles, on the coast of Catalonia, at the destruction of the Spanish frigate El Guadaloupe of 40 guns, and at the capture of a French squadron of three frigates and two brigs commanded by Rear-Admiral Perrée. After again serving in the Channel he joined, in June, 1802, the 44, Capt. Edwin Henry Chamberlayne; in which ship he continued employed in the West Indies as Master’s Mate, Acting-Lieutenant, and Lieutenant (order and commission dated 1 Nov. 1803 and 3 May, 1804), until Oct. 1804. His subsequent appointments were – 28 Nov. 1804, to the sloop, Capt. Hon. Donald Hugh Mackay, in the North Sea – 6 June, 1805, to the  44, armée en flûte, Capt. Fras. Beaufort, fitting in the river Thames – 3 Oct. following, to the 98, Capt. Robt. Carthew Reynolds, in the Channel – 23 June, 1807, to the, of 22 long 9-pounders on her main-deck, with 6 18-pounder carronades and 2 long 6’s on the quarterdeck and forecastle, Capt. John Chas. Woollcombe – 31 Jan. 1811, to the 20, Capt. Edw. Scobell, on the coast of Africa, whence ill health obliged him to return in March, 1812 – and 6 Aug. 1813, to the 38, Capt. Joseph Digby, in the Bay of Biscay. In Aug. 1808 the Laurel, with only 145 men, was captured off the Isle of France by the French frigate Cannonière of 48 guns and, including troops, full 420 men, after a close and gallant action of nearly an hour and a half, in which the British had but 9 wounded, and the enemy at least 5 killed and 19 wounded. Mr. Woodman, who was at the time Senior Lieutenant (and who, on being conveyed on board the French ship, had had his sword returned to him, as was Capt. Woollcombe’s, by the French Captain), was in consequence detained a