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BUDD—BUDGEN. married, 7 Nov. 1837, Capt. Wm. Henry Robinson, 72nd Highlanders, only son of the late Sir W. H. Robinson, K.C.H.) four sons – Matthew Hughes George, in holy orders; Claude Henry Mason, Captain R.N.; Edward, Captain Madras Engineers; and Randolph Clifton, Lieutenant Madras Artillery.

 BUDD. 

entered the Navy, 8 Oct. 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 32, Capts. Wm. Lukin and Aiskew Paffard Hollis, employed on the Mediterranean station; attained the rating of Midshipman 24 July, 1799; and, on 12 July, 1801, was present in Sir Jas. Saumarez’ action ¦with the Franco-Spanish squadron in the Gut of Gibraltar. He removed, in Jan. 1802, to the 74, Capts. Robt. Jackson and Rich. Curry, from which ship he was paid off 23 Sept. following; served, from March, 1803, to July, 1805, part of the time as Master’s Mate, in the 60, Capts. Sir Sidney Smith, Henry Bazely, Sir Home Popham, and Robt. Plampin, off the Texel and Ostend, where he had charge of a gun-boat; passed his examination 4 Sept. 1805; and, after a further attachment to the 74, flag-ship of Sir S. Smith, in which he assisted at the destruction of the Martello towers on the coast of Messina, was appointed, 4 Oct. 1806, Acting-Lieutenant of the  28, Capt. Geo. Fras. Seymour. While in that frigate Mr. Budd, in command of the boats, cut out an armed vessel from under the batteries of Ajaccio, after a serious contest, in which the British had 6 men wounded. He was confirmed by the Admiralty 25 March, 1807; was subsequently appointed, 26 Jan. 1808, to the 28, Capt. Wm. Antridge, under whom we find him continually in collision with the Danes in the Baltic until April, 1812. He next cruized, from 10 June, 1814, until his return home in Aug. 1815, in the 12, Capt. Alex. Barclay Branch, for the protection of commerce off Surinam; and for his share, during that period, in effecting the destruction of a notorious American privateer of nearly twice the force of the, obtained, in common with the rest of the officers and men belonging to the latter vessel, the thanks of the Admiralty. From the peace Lieut. Budd remained unemployed until appointed, 22 May, 1840, First of the 110, bearing the flags at Plymouth of, successively, Rear-Admirals Fred. Warren and Sir Sam. Pym. He was superseded, on advancement to his present rank, 16 Sept. 1842, and has since been on half-pay.

 BUDD. 

entered the Navy, 5 March, 1796, as A.B., on board 80, Capt. Hon. Thos. Pakenham, employed on the Home station; attained the rating of Midshipman in Aug. following; removed, as Master’s Mate, in Sept. 1797, to the, Capt. Cotgrave, lying at Plymouth; and, from 4 Sept. 1798, until paid off, 23 Sept. 1802, served, with Capts. Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, Robt. Jackson, and Rich. Curry, in the 74, latterly as Acting-Lieutenant. While under the orders of Sir W. S. Smith, he assisted at the defence of St. Jean d’Acre, in March, 1799, and was afterwards very actively employed in Egypt until the final surrender of Alexandria in Sept. 1801. On 12 March, 1803, Mr. Budd rejoined the last-mentioned officer in the 50, in the North Sea, on which station he commanded, from 13 March to 10 April, 1804, the Lord Nelson tender, and was immediately afterwards transferred, still as Acting-Lieutenant, to the  18, Capt. John Hancock, under whom he was present, on 17 of the following May, in a gallant attack on a powerful division of the enemy’s flotilla, of 59 sail, passing alongshore from Flushing to Ostend; whose fire, during an engagement of six hours and a half, occasioned the  a loss of 1 man killed and 4 wounded. He subsequently received from the Admiralty a commission dated back to the 1st of the latter month; and, in Aug. of the same year, he invalided from extreme ill health. On 11 Aug. 1805, he was next appointed to the 74, bearing the flag of his old friend Sir Sidney Smith on the Mediterranean station, where, among various other services, he participated, in 1806, in the reduction of the island of Capri and the attack on Fort Licosa, attended, in Feb. 1807, the expedition to the Dardanells, and then visited the shores of Egypt. On Vice-Admiral Hon. Henry Edwin Stanhope hoisting his flag shortly afterwards on board the, we find Lieut. Budd further accompanying the force despatched under Lord Gambier to seize the Danish fleet at Copenhagen. His ensuing and last appointments were, on 24 May and 14 Dec. 1808, to the 98, commanded in South America by Capt. Thos. Western, and 80, flag-ship on that station of Sir W. S. Smith. He returned home in Aug. 1809, and accepted his present rank 10 Oct. 1836.

Commander Budd was granted, on 5 Nov. 1813, a pension of 91l. 5s. in consequence of several severe contusions which he had received in the leg and breast as far back as 1806. He also obtained a pecuniary reward from the Patriotic Fund.

 BUDGEN. 

, born 18 Jan. 1794, at Frant, co. Sussex, is brother of the present, and of the late Lieut. Wm. Budgen, R.N., who, when First of H.M.S. in 1813, commanded her boats and was seriously wounded at the cutting out of several vessels from under the batteries of Otranto.

This officer entered the Navy, 4 Feb. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 36, Capt. Thos. Manby, which ship was shortly afterwards struck with lightning in a violent storm off the Texel, and, on reaching Yarmouth Roads, completely dismasted in a sister gale. He next proceeded with a large convoy to the West Indies, and while on that station became successively attached, between Aug. 1805, and Aug. 1806, to the 36, Capts. Chas. Stuart and Joseph Spear, 20, Capt. J. Spear,  74, bearing the flag of Sir Alex. Cochrane, and 64, and  32, both likewise commanded by Capt. Spear, and all very actively employed in cruizing. He then invalided home, as Midshipman, on board the 20, Capt. Robt. B. Campbell, and in Oct. of the same year he joined Commodore Sir Sam. Hood in the 74. During the four years he belonged to that ship, Mr. Budgen attended, in Aug. and Sept. 1807, the expedition to Copenhagen; took part, in Dec. following, in the reduction of Madeira; assisted, in company with the 74, at the capture, 26 Aug. 1808, in sight of the whole Russian fleet near Rogerswick, of the 74-gun ship Sewolod, after a furious yard-arm-and-yard-arm conflict, in which the Centaur lost 3 killed and 27 wounded, and the enemy 180 killed and wounded; and in Aug. 1809, was engaged, under Capt. Wm. Henry Webley, in the attack upon Walcheren. From Nov. 1810, till March, 1813, he next served in the Mediterranean on board the 110, flag-ship in succession of Sir S. Hood, Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats, and Sir Wm. Sidney Smith; and on one occasion, in 1812, he commanded a boat at the cutting out of a vessel in Hières Bay, under the smart fire of a body of troops posted behind some sandbanks on the beach. He passed his examination 13 Feb. 1813; subsequently returned to England in the 74, Capt. Sir Robt. Laurie; and, after a servitude of a few months in the 36, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Hamilton at Deptford, proceeded in the 20, Capt. Geo. Henderson, to the East Indies, where he joined, in April, 1814, the 74, flag-ship of his old friend Sir Sam. Hood, at whose funeral, in Dec. following, he was one of the few mourners present. He was confirmed a Lieutenant, in the, on 22 Feb. 1815; assisted, in the ensuing Aug., in