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BROUN—BROUNCKER—BROWELL—BROWN. time in the 20, employed during the disputes between Don Pedro and Don Miguel in protecting the British interests in the Western Islands, was promoted to Post-rank, 22 Nov. 1832, as was also, to the rank of Commander, his First Lieutenant, Edw. Harris Butterfleld. From that period he remained unemployed until appointed, 25 Oct. 1836, to the 28, in which we find him serving for some time off the coast of Spain during the Carlist disputes; also, under very trying circumstances, at Bahia, at the period of an insurrection of the black population; and, early in 1839, at Callao during the war between the Chihans and Peruviana, about which epoch he landed a party of men at Istay, and rescued from his rebel pursuers General Santa Cruz, the late Protector of Peru, a service subsequently sanctioned by the approval of the Admiralty. On 31 Oct. following Capt. Broughton was transferred to the 50, as Flag-Captain to Rear-Admiral Chas. Bayne Hodgson Ross, with whom he returned home, and was placed out of commission, in May, 1842. He has been in command, since 12 Jan. 1846, of the 24, on the south-east coast of America.

Capt. Broughton married, 3 Jan. 1833, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of John Perfect, Esq., banker, of Pontefract, and has issue four daughters. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 BROUN. 

obtained his first commission 1 Nov. 1815; and was appointed, about the same period, to the 14, Capt. Silas Thompson Hood, which vessel was paid off in 1816. He afterwards joined, as First-Lieutenant, 12 Sept. 1826, the 18, Capt. Edw. Le Cras Thornbrough, at Halifax; 5 May, 1827, the 46, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Ogle, on the same station; and, 3 Nov. 1830, the 46, Capt. Edw. Harvey, employed at the Cape of Good Hope and in the East Indies. He returned to England and was paid off early in 1834; obtained a Commander’s commission 23 March, 1835; was appointed, 26 Sept. 1836, to the Coast Guard, in which service he remained during the customary period of three years; and, since 7 Nov. 1845, has been employed as Second Captain of the 120, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Ogle at Portsmouth.

He married, 12 Sept. 1837, Fanny Charlotte, eldest daughter of Lieut.-General Granby Clay, of Baring Crescent, Exeter. – Messrs. Chard.

 BROUNCKER. 

entered the Navy, 21 Sept. 1809, as Midshipman, on board the 36, Capt. Arth. Farquhar, to which frigate he continued attached, principally on the North Sea station, until April, 1814. During that period he served in the boats under Lieut. Sam. Radford at the cutting out of two French vessels, carrying together 16 guns and 59 men, and destruction of a third, a lugger of 6 guns and 26 men, lying in the Vlie, 29 May, 1810, and was lent, in 1813, to No. 7 gun-boat, one of a light squadron employed under Capt. Farquhar in blockading the North Elbe, where he took part in the reduction of Cuxhaven, in the attack also on the Danish flotilla at Busum, on which occasion two of the enemy’s gun-vessels were sunk, and, as a Volunteer, in the erection of batteries at the siege of Gluckstadt, where he was so severely frost-bitten as nearly to lose a leg. Mr. Brouncker, who passed his examination in 1818, subsequently served for 11 years, as Mate, on the Mediterranean and East India stations. He was seriously injured in the face in the early part of 1829, while in charge of a tender to the 120, flag-ship at the Nore of Sir Hen. Blackwood; and, on the recommendation of that officer, he was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant 26 Feb. in the same year. He has been in the Coast Guard since 7 Oct. 1833.

Lieut. Brouncker is married, and has issue.

 BROWELL. 

, born 26 July, 1806, is son of the late Hen. Browell, Esq., of the Lord ChamberIain’s Office; grandson of Wm. M. Browell, Esq., who served as Midshipman of the under Lord Anson in his voyage round the world; and nephew of the late Capt. Wm. Browell, R.N., Lieut.-Governor of Greenwich Hospital, also of the late Capt. Herbert Browell, B.N., who died in command of the 74, and of the present Jas. Browell, Esq., Purser and Paymaster, R.N.

This officer entered the Royal Naval College 5 April, 1820, and embarked, 21 March, 1822, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 20, Capts. Hon. Hen. John Rous and Lord Hen. John Spencer Churchill, stationed in the Mediterranean, where he continued, part of the time as Midshipman, until he returned to England, and was paid off, in Aug. 1825. He then joined the 28, commanded by Capt. Rous, on the East India station; passed his examination in May, 1826; and, after a further attachment, as Acting-Lieutenant, to the, Capt. John Furneaux, was confirmed into the  20, Capt. Alex. Campbell, 17 March, 1828. He immediately afterwards came home with the latter officer in the, a new 84, recently launched; and subsequently served – from March, 1830, to Jan. 183-1, in the 10, Capt. Lord Geo. Paulet, off the coasts of Ireland, Portugal, and Spain – from June following until June, 1838, in the 52, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Bladen Capel in the East Indies – and, from Sept. 1841, until he invalided in Sept. 1842, as First, in the steam-vessel, Capt. Hen. Boyes, attached to the force in China. He joined, 10 Aug. 1844, the yacht, Capt. Lord Adolphus FitzClarence; but, since his promotion to the rank of Commander, 25 Sept. 1845, has been unemployed.

He married, 20 Feb. 1840, Mary Anne, eldest daughter of Capt. Leigh Lye, who served throughout the Peninsular War and at Waterloo in the 11th Light Dragoons, and niece of Rear-Admiral Lye.

 BROWN. 

is son of J. O. Brown, Esq., of Edinburgh, by Agnes, daughter of Chas. Campbell, Esq., of Lochdochart.

This officer entered the Navy, 11 Dec. 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 16, Capt. John Porteous, with whom he served in the Brazils and West Indies until Aug. 1814. He then removed to the 74, flag-ship of Sir Philip Durham, and next to the  14, and  16, Capts. Jas. Murray and Fred. Wm. Burgoyne, on the Leith station; became Midshipman, in Feb. 1815, of the 16, Capt. Wm. Farington; re-joined Capt. Murray, in Sept. of the same year, in the, at Portsmouth; served, from Nov. following until May, 1819, in the 24, Capt. Alex. Renton Sharpe, and 32, Commodore Wm. Bowles and Capt. Wm. Bateman Dashwood, on the Brazilian station; and was attached, as Master’s Mate, from Jan. 1820 until Nov. 1822, to the 28, Capt. John Toup Nicolas,  gun-brig, Lieut. -Commanders Wm. Martin, Jas. Rich. Booth, and John Eagar, and 26, Capt. Jas. Murray, employed off Newfoundland, whence he returned home with the Governor, Vice-Admiral Sir Chas. Hamilton. Mr. Brown, who was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant on 14 of the last-mentioned month, continued in the, engaged on Particular Service in the West Indies, until placed out of commission in the summer of 1824. His next appointment was, 26 Oct. 1825, to the sloop, Capt. Fred. Augustus Wetherall, in the East Indies, where he was transferred, in 1828, to the, a new 84, just launched, Capt. Alex. Campbell, to assist in bringing her to England. He was paid off in the ensuing Oct., and was afterwards employed in the Coast Guard from 8 March, 1834, until 3 Dec. 1813. He has since been on half-pay. 