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CABBURN—CADOGAN—CAFFIN. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley, on the Lisbon station. He was afterwards appointed, 24, Feb. and 6 Dec. 1813, to the 10, and  18, on the Baltic and Channel stations; and, on 7 June, 1814, was promoted to Post-rank. Lord Byron’s last appointment afloat was, 5 June, 1824, to the command of the 42, in which frigate he conveyed from this country the remains of the late King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands. While there he had the satisfaction of erecting a monument to the memory of the great circumnavigator, Cook, near the very spot where he lost his life. The returned home and was paid off 15 Dec. 1826.

Lord Byron, who is a Lord in Waiting on Her Majesty, married, 18 March, 1816, Elizabeth Mary, daughter of the late, and sister of the present, Sacheverel Chandos Pole, of Radborne, co. Dorset, by whom he has issue four sons and two daughters. – Messrs. Stilwell.



CABBURN. 

entered the Navy, 5 Sept. 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 64, Capt. Wm. Nowell, lying at Sheerness, but was discharged 12 April, 1802. He again embarked, 3 May, 1804, as Midshipman, on board the 64, Capts. John Wentworth Loring, Fras. Pickmore, and Henry Inman, stationed in the Downs; and, in Jan. 1805, he removed to the 74, Capts. F. Pickmore and Robt. Tarker, in the West Indies. After witnessing the surrender of M. Linois’ squadron in March, 1806, and assisting at the reduction of the Danish islands of St. Thomas and Santa Croix, in Dec. 1807, Mr. Cabburn was next, in Nov. 1808, transferred to the 32, Capt. Henry Folkes Edgell, on the East India station; as Master’s Mate of which ship we find him, in 1810-11, serving on shore at the taking of the Isle of France, and the storming of Fort Cornelis in the island of Java. In the course of 1812 he became attached, in succession, to the 74, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Wm. Robt. Broughton, and the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Sam. Hood, 36, Capt. Wm. Jones Lye, and 40, Capts. Wm. Augustus Montagu and Henry Collins Deacon. Under the former of those officers he served off Cherbourg, escorted a convoy to Quebec, and was employed with the force off Lisbon; and, under Capt. Deacon, he was at the surrender of Guadeloupe in 1815. Having obtained his first commission on 13 Feb. in the latter year, Mr. Cabburn was placed on half-pay on 13 of the following Sept. His last appointments were – 26 July, 1841, to the 80, guardship at Sheerness – and, 23 Jan. 1844, to be Admiralty Agent in a contract steam-vessel on the West India station. Since the latter part of 1845 he has been unemployed. --Messrs. Chard.

 CADOGAN, Earl, C.B., K.M.T.

, born 5 May, 1783, is eldest surviving son of the first Earl, by his second wife, Mary, daughter of Chas. Churchill, Esq.; brother of Lieut.-Col. Hon. Henry Cadogan, who fell at Vittoria 21 June, 1813, and of the present Lieut.-Col. Hon. Edw. Cadogan; half-brother of Hon. Thos. Cadogan, Capt., R.N., who was lost in H.M.S. in 1782; and brother-in-law of the Marquess of Anglesey, as also of the Hon. and Rev. Gerald Valerian Wellesley, brother of the Duke of Wellington. He succeeded his half-brother, as third Earl, 23 Dec. 1832.

This officer entered the Navy, 15 Dec. 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 46, Capt. Sir Edw. Pellew, with whom he continued to serve, in the same frigate and in the 78, on the Home and Mediterranean stations, until Feb. 1802, the greater part of the time as Midshipman and Master’s Mate. In the former ship he assisted, in April, 1796, at the capture of a fleet of French merchantmen, the destruction of La Volage 26, and the further capture of L’Unite of 38, and, after a chase of 15 hours and a close action of an hour and 45 minutes, of La Virginie of 44 guns. He was also, on 13 Jan. 1797, present, in company with the 36, in a very gallant engagement of 10 hours with the French 74-gun ship Les Droits de l’Homme, in which the  sustained a loss of 19 men wounded. The afterwards formed part, in June and Aug. 1800, of the expeditions to Quiberon and Ferrol. On 12 April, 1802, we find Mr. Cadogan appointed to a Lieutenancy in the 38, Capts. Geo. Hope and Robt. Honyman, under the latter of whom he took part, 29 Sept. 1803, in a successful conflict with the enemy’s flotilla near Boulogne; and, on 4 May, 1804, obtaining official command of the 18, in the West Ladies, where that vessel, after capturing, 11 Nov. 1804 and 16 May, 1805, the French and Spanish privateers, Buonaparte, of 22 guns and 150 men, and Justicia, of 4 guns and 95 men, was herself taken, on 12 May, in the latter year, by the Hortense and Hermoine frigates. Capt. Cadogan, whose next appointment was, 22 March, 1806, to the 18, on the Jamaica station, obtained Post-rank 23 March, 1807, and subsequently joined – 6 Oct. 1807, the  22, in which he served for some time on the Cape of Good Hope and Home stations, and conveyed Sir Arthur Wellesley from England to the Peninsula – 16 Sept. 1809, the  32, part of the force employed in the expedition to the Walcheren, at the evacuation of which island, in Dec. 1809, he superintended the embarkation of the rear-guard of the army, and proved a zealous second and supporter of Commodore Owen – and, 6 June, 1811, the  of 42 guns. After several months of active employment in the Channel, he proceeded to the Mediterranean, and there, in Dec. 1813, terminated a train of very effective services, marked on every occasion by a display of judgment, perseverance, and ability, by commanding the naval force at the reduction, after a cannonade of 13 days, of the strong fortress of Zara, mounting 110 guns, 7 large mortars, and 11 howitzers, and garrisoned by 2000 veteran troops under the command of Baron Roisé. He was placed on half-pay on 31 of the last-mentioned month, and has not since been afloat. The Austrian Order of Maria Theresa was conferred on him 22 July, 1814; the C.B. 4 June, 1815; and the rank of Rear-Admiral 23 Nov. 1841. Earl Cadogan was appointed an Extra Naval Aide-de-camp to William IV. 5 Sept. 1831.

He married, 4 April, 1810, Louisa Honoria, daughter of Joseph Blake, Esq., of Ardfry, and sister of the first Lord Wallscourt, by whom he has issue four sons and two daughters. – Goode and Lawrence.

 CAFFIN. 

, born 1 March, 1812, is third son of Wm. Caffin, Esq., of the Royal Laboratory, Woolwich.

This officer entered the Navy, 12 Aug. 1824 as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 18, Capt. Fras. Fead, from which vessel he was discharged 10 May 1825. On 18 Jan. 1826, he re-embarked, on board the 10, Capt. Chas. Hope, and, in July 1827 he became Midshipman of the 48, Capt. Gawen Wm. Hamilton, both stationed in the Mediterranean, where he appears to have been very actively employed against the pirates in the Grecian Archipelago, and to have shared in the battle of Navarin 20 Oct. 1827. The being ultimately wrecked while engaged in action with the pirates of Fort Carabusa, 31 Jan. 1828, Mr. Caffin next joined for brief periods, on the Home and Mediterranean stations, the  74, Capt. Henry Stuart,