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BURROUGH—BURROUGHES—BURROUGHS—BURROWS—BURSLEM. Pitfield Sturt, on the North Sea station, and afterwards served, until the establishment of peace, with the same officer, and Capts. Geo. Wm. Hughes D’Aeth, Rich. Buck, and Gawen Wm. Hamilton, in the 28, and  32. While attached to the he assisted, under Capt. Sturt, at the defence of Sicily against the threatened invasion of Murat in 1810, and was frequently in hostile collision with the enemy’s gun-vessels and batteries on the coasts of Italy and Spain. In the Mr. Burridge witnessed the fall of Genoa in April, 1814. Between the latter period and the receipt of his first commission, 10 Nov. 1824, he successively joined, on the West India, Newfoundland, and Mediterranean stations, the 20, Capt. Geo. Gustavus Lennock, 10, Capts. Wm. Nugent Glascock and Octavius F. C. Venables Vernon, and 46, Capt. H. E. P. Sturt. His appointments as Lieutenant appear to have been — 4 July, 1826, to the 18, Capts. Wm. Hamley and Peter Richards, on the last-named station — 25 June, 1830, as First, to the 18, Capt. Wm. Hamley, in the East Indies — and, 10 May, 1834, in the same capacity, to the 62, Capt. Wm. Price, again in the Mediterranean. He was awarded a second promotal commission 28 June, 1838; and, on 11 March, 1841, was selected to command the 84, Capts. Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley and Daniel Pring, in which ship he served for some time in the Mediterranean and at the Cape of Good Hope, as well as in attendance upon the Queen off Walmer Castle in Nov. and Dec. 1842. Capt. Burridge, who has been unemployed since Oct. 1843, at which period the was placed out of commission, attained his present rank 9 Nov. 1846.

He married, 2 April, 1845, Mary, relict of the late Geo. Green, Esq., merchant, and daughter of the late Thos. Hurd, Esq., of Ewell Court, Surrey. He became a widower 12 April, 1846. — Messrs. Stilwell.

 BURROUGH. 

was born, 28 Feb. 1802, at Brampton, co. Cumberland.

This officer entered the Navy, 13 Dec. 1818, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 18, Capt. Chas. Burrough Strong, under whom, and his successors, Capts. Alex. Albert Sandilands, Wm. Finlaison, and Christ. Knight, he served with great activity in suppression of the slave-traffic on the coast of Africa, part of the time as Midshipman, until Aug. 1822. He then removed to the 26, Capts. Thos. Bourchier and Archibald Maclean, on the South American station; joined, in June, 1824, the 74, Capt. Thos. Dundas, lying at Portsmouth; passed his examination 7 Feb. 1825; became Mate, 3 Dec. 1826, of the 84, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Sir Edw. Codrington; and, at the close of the battle of Navarin, was promoted, 21 Oct. 1827, to a vacancy caused by the death of Lieut. G. W. H. Fitzroy, in the 42, Capt. Thos. Fellowes, from which ship he was paid off in March, 1830. Lieut. Burrough was next appointed, 9 March, 1832, to the 18, Capt. Spencer Lambert Hunter Vassall, for a passage to the East Indies to join the  74, bearing the flag of Sir John Gore, by whom, however, on his arrival, he was immediately, and to his great mortification, sent home again in the  18, Capt. John Parker, to be paid off. After an unemployed interval of a twelvemonth he became attached, 16 Jan. 1834, to the 74, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres, on the Mediterranean station, but in the following July was compelled to invalid, in consequence of a very aggravated species of epilepsy, originally contracted on the coast of Africa. His last appointment, which was, 31 Jan. 1844, as First-Lieutenant, to the store ship, commanded by his former Captain, Wm. Finlaison, he was for the same reason unable to retain, and he has been therefore doomed, since the March of that year, to a helpless half-pay.

Lieut. Burrough married, 27 July, 1843, Ann, daughter of the late Jas. Wainwright, Esq.

 BURROUGHES. 

, born in 1821, is a younger son of Henry Negus Burroughes, Esq., of Burlingham Hall, M.P. for East Norfolk, by Jane Sarah, sister of the late gallant Sir Wm. Hoste, Bart., Capt. R.N.

This officer entered the Navy in 1833; passed his examination 11 July, 1840; and served as Mate, on the Mediterranean and Home stations, in the 78, Capt. Sir Jas. Stirling, and steam frigate, Capts. Armar Lowry Corry and Jas. Hope. He obtained his commission 6 Feb. 1845; then joined the steam-sloop, Capt. Wm. Windham Hornby, on the coast of Africa; was next appointed, 15 Oct. following, to the 50, flag-ship at the Cape of Good Hope of Rear-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres; and since the summer of 1846 has been on half-pay.

 BURROUGHS. 

entered the Navy, 26 Jan, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 24, Capt. Fras. Mason, and was for many months, while stationed off Ostend and Dieppe, constantly engaged in warmly conflicting with the enemy’s flotilla. In Jan. 1805, he removed, as Midshipman, to the 64, Commodore Sir Home Popham, whom he ultimately accompanied in the expeditions to the Cape of Good Hope and Buenos Ayres. He was next, from Dec. 1806, until July, 1808, employed, in succession, on board the 64, Capt. Wm. Cuming, 36, Capt. Robt. Honyman, and 74, Vice-Admiral Wells, on the South American, Cork, and Nore stations. He then joined the 74, Capt. Andrew King, in which ship he attended the expedition to the Walcheren in Aug. 1809; and he afterwards served, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 20 Nov. 1812, in the  36, Capt. Fras. Mason, and 100, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez, both employed in the Baltic, where he contributed to the capture of several privateers. Mr. Burroughs was subsequently, on 12 May, 1813, appointed to the 110, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Sir Rich. King, under whom he witnessed, 5 Nov. 1813, and 13 Feb. 1814, the partial engagements between Sir Edw. Pellew and the Toulon fleet. He was paid off in Aug. of the latter year, and has not since been employed.

 BURROWS. 

Author:Montagu Burrows entered the Navy 14 Aug. 1833; and served for some time as Fst.-cl. Vol. on board the 28, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, in the East Indies, where he was frequently detached in the boats to act against the pirates in the Straits of Malacca. He passed his examination 4 Sept. 1839; afterwards joined, as Mate, the 72, Capt. Wm. Wilmott Henderson, with whom he served during the operations on the coast of Syria, including the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, in 1840; was next attached for two years to the, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, gunnery-ship at Portsmouth; and, on 7 July, 1843, was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant. Mr. Burrows, on 20 of the latter month, became an Additional Lieutenant of the 50, flag-ship at the Cape of Hon. Josceline Percy. He removed, 12 March, 1844, to the 16, Capt. Hon. Geo. Hope, on the same station; and, since 4 Nov. 1846, has been re-employed in the, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads.

 BURSLEM. 

is second son of Jas. Godolphin Burslem, Esq., late of the Royal Artillery, who lost a leg in the battle of Alexandria, 21 March, 1801; grandson of Capt. Fras. Burslem, R.N., who, when commanding the, of