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Rh 6 Oct. 1815), in the 98 and  100, flag-ships of Sir Edw. Thornbrough,  38, Capt. Jas. Whitley Deans Dundas,  18, Capt. Sir Chas. Christopher Parker,  78, Capt. Sir T. Staines, and  120, Capt. Philip Pipon. He was made Lieutenant, 3 June, 1826, into the  48, Capt. Sir Sam. John Brooke Pechell, in the Mediterranean; he returned, in the following Nov., to England; and he was appointed next, as Senior Lieutenant – 15 July, 1831, and 3 May and 2 Sept. 1834, to the  18, Capt. Wm. Gapper Agar,  16, Capt. John Sam. Foreman, and  50, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Cockburn, all on the North America and West India station – and 13 Jan. 1837, after seven months of half-pay, to the  92, Capt. Hyde Parker, again in the Mediterranean. He attained the rank of Commander 28 June, 1838; served off Lisbon as Second-Captain in the  72, Capt. Humphrey Fleming Senhouse, from 25 April until Dec. 1839; was appointed in a similar capacity 26 Oct. 1841, to the  50, Capt. John Brett Purvis, fitting for South America; and in honour of the Queen’s visit to the squadron at Spithead was advanced to Post-rank 7 March, 1842.

Capt. Woodthorpe married, 6 Sept. 1838, Emily, second daughter of the Rev. Robt. Howard, of Throxenby Hall, co. York, Rector of Burythorpe, by whom he has left issue.

 WOODWARD. 

entered the Navy, 31 May, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 36, Capt. Loftus Otway Bland, employed in succession in the North Sea and off Lisbon and the Western Islands. From Dec. 1807 until April, 1810, he served in the Mediterranean, as Midshipman (a rating he had already attained) and as Master’s Mate, in the and  74’s, both commanded by Capt. Edw. Griffith; he cruized during the next 10 months, off Cherbourg, Flushing, and Lisbon, in the 74, Capts. Hon. Henry Curzon and Thos. Searle; and at the close of 1811, after he had been again for a few months stationed off Flushing in the 80, flag-ship of Admiral Wm. Young, he sailed, in the 24, Capt. Edw. Rushworth, for the West Indies; where he joined, in Feb. 1812, the 74, flag-ship of Sir Fras. Laforey, and acted, from May until July following, as Lieutenant in the 36, Capt. Hugh Pigot. He then returned to England, having been promoted by the Admiralty to the rank of Lieutenant 21 March preceding; and was employed lastly, from Jan. 1813 until Sept. 1814, and from July until Sept. 1815, in the 10, Capt. John Hardy Godby, and  18, Capts. Joseph Gulston and John Smith, in the North Sea, at Gibraltar, in the Downs, and off Brighton.

 WOOLCOCK. 

(a) entered the Navy, in May, 1800, as A.B., on board the, Lieut.-Commanders Wm. Eliot, Wm. Chapman, and Benj. Crispin, stationed in the North Sea. He served next, from April, 1801, until July, 1802, part of the time as Midshipman, in the 74, Capt. Sir Francis Laforey, in the Baltic, off the port of Cadiz, and in the West Indies; and from March, 1803, until June, 1807, under Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, in the 50 and  74. In the he was often in action with the enemy’s flotilla between Flushing and Ostend; and in the  he passed the Dardanells and assisted at the destruction of a Turkish squadron anchored under the guns of a redoubt on Point Pesquies. On 8 July, 1807, he was nominated Sub-Lieutenant of the gun-brig, Lieut.-Commanders Jas. Aberdour and Sam. Burgess, in the North Sea; he was promoted to the full rank of Lieutenant 25 March, 1809; and he was afterwards, from June following until April, 1812, and from the latter date until June, 1814, employed in the 18, Capts. Sam. Martin Colquitt and Chas. Bertram, and 36, Capt. Hood Hanway Christian, on the West India, Home, and Brazilian stations. We believe that he assisted, in the, at the capture of the privateers Embuscade of 14 guns and 63 men, and Petit Jean, of 16 guns, only 8 mounted, and 65 men. His last appointment was to the 72, Capts. Wm. Henry Shirreff and Sir Thos. Bourchier, Depôt-ship of Ordinary at Chatham, where he served as First-Lieutenant from 4 April, 1844, until the summer of 1847.

 WOOLCOCK. 

(b) died, we believe, in 1846. This officer entered the Navy, 16 Sept. 1801, as a Supernumerary, on board the 38, Capt. Thos. Twysden, for the purpose of joining the 36, Capts. Chas. John Moore Mansfield and Robt. Williams, with whom he served on the coast of Ireland from the following Oct. until June, 1802. In Jan. 1804, after having cruized for 10 months in the Channel and Bay of Biscay in the 36, Capts. Rich. Harrison Pearson and Patrick Campbell, he was received on board the 74; in which ship he continued employed as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, at first under Capt. Mansfield and next under the flags of Admirals John Child Purvis, Sir Chas. Cotton, and Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, in the Channel, off Cadiz and Lisbon, and in the Baltic, until transferred, in March, 1809, to the 64, Capts. Loftus Otway Bland, John Orkney (Acting), Geo. Fred. Ryves, and John Bastard. In the he fought at Trafalgar and accompanied the expedition of 1807 against Copenhagen. He was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the 23 June, 1810; was confirmed, 28 Dec. following, into the  18, Capt. Geo. Pringle, on the West India station; and, having invalided thence in 1811, was subsequently, from March until Dec. 1813, and from March, 1814, until Aug. 1815, employed in the Channel and East Indies in the 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood, and  50, Capt. Francis Augustus Collier. He did not again go afloat.

 WOOLCOMBE. 

is nephew of Rear-Admiral Sir John Louis, Bart.

This officer entered the Navy 26 Nov. 1829; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 8 June, 1841, as a reward for his services on the coast of China; where he continued employed in the 16, Capt. Wm. Henry Anderson Morshead, until his return to England in the early part of 1843. He was appointed, 2 Aug. in that year, to the 26, Capt. Sir Thos. Raikes Trigge Thompson, on the Pacific station; and since 7 May, 1847 (about which period the was paid off), has been serving at Plymouth in the  120 and  72, as Flag-Lieutenant to his uncle Sir John Louis, the Admiral-Superintendent. – Joseph Woodhead.

 WOOLCOMBE. 

passed his examination 8 Feb. 1845; was nominated, 25 June and 23 Dec. 1846, Acting-Lieutenant, on the coast of Africa, of the 26 and  12, Capts. Geo. Mansel and Fred. Wilmot Horton; and on the paying-off of the latter vessel in July, 1848, was presented with a commission bearing date 24 June, 1846. Since 4 Sept. 1848 he has been serving in the 50, as Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Barrington Reynolds, Commander-in-Chief at the Cape of Good Hope.

