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CAULFEILD—CAVENDISH—CAWLEY. coasts of Spain and Portugal, in the expedition against Flushing, and on the Mediterranean station. In Jan. 1811, he joined the 74, commanded by the same Captain, and, while in that ship, assisted in her boats at the capture of a French vessel under the batteries of Ile d’Aix, and was ultimately, on 27 Dec. in the same year, taken prisoner in a gallant but unsuccessful attack on an enemy’s flotilla. He regained his liberty at the peace, and obtained his commission 3 March, 1815, but has been ever since on half-pay.

Lieut. Caulfeild married Frances Sally, daughter of the late Eyles Irwin, Esq., of co. Fermanagh, by whom he has issue a son and two daughters.

 CAULFEILD. 

is third son of the late Wm. Caulfeild, Esq., of Benown, co. Athlone, Col. of the Boscommon Militia, by his first wife, Lucy Sanderson, of Clover Hall, co. Cavan; grandson of the Venerable John Caulfeild, Archdeacon of Kilmore; brother of the present Col. John Caulfeild, of Bloomfield, co. Westmeath, Deputy- Lieutenant for co. Roscommon; nephew of Commodore Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, R.N., who died in 1821, and of the late Commander Robt. Caulfeild, R.N. (1814); and cousin of the present

This officer entered the Navy, 23 June, 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Henry Wm. Bayntun, flag-ship, afterwards, of Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats, under whom he served at the siege of Cadiz, was frequently engaged in boat-collisions with the French flotilla, and assisted in removing the wounded after the battle of Barrosa. On 2 Aug. 1811, he became Midshipman of the 110, bearing the flag of the same officer, and next of Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, in the Mediterranean; where he was transferred, in Jan. 1813, to the 38, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan. In Oct. following we find him serving at the capture of Port d’Anzo, and subsequently employed on the coast of Italy, where he co-operated on shore with the army in the attack upon Leghorn, and was frequently landed on other occasions for the purpose of harassing the enemy. Mr. Caulfeild – who next became attached to the 50, Capt. Hon. H. Duncan,  74, Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, and 20, Capt. Jos. Prior, on the Home and East India stations – passed his examination 15 Aug. 1815; and afterwards joined, in the several capacities of Acting-Lieutenant, Master’s-Mate, and Admiralty-Midshipman – the 74, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Burlton, and 20, Capt. Henry Weir, on the last-named station – the  74, Capt. Wm. Robt. Broughton, 20, Capt. Aaron Tozer,  104, flag-ship of Sir John Thos. Duckworth, and 80, and  74, Capt. T. G. Caulfeild, lying in Hamoaze – and  60, in which ship, on his return to India with the flag of the Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, he was made a Lieutenant, 5 Feb. 1821. His subsequent appointments afloat appear to have been – 2 Nov. 1821, and 19 Jan. 1822, as First Lieutenant, to the 50,, and  84, both commanded by Capt. Fras. Augustus Collier, in the East – 8 May, 1826, after an interval of three years and a half, to the 104, bearing the flag of Sir Geo. Martin at Portsmouth – 7 Jan. 1827, to the 26, Capt. Michael Seymour, on the South American station – 8 Dec. 1827, to the  bomb, Capts. Edm. Williams Gilbert and Brunswick Popham, in the Mediterranean – 2 Dec. 1828, and 28 Dec. 1829, as Senior, to the 18, Capt. Fras. Deane Hutcheson, and 74, Capts. Henry Stuart and Fras. Holmes Coffin, on the same station – and, 5 Nov. 1830, to the 74, Capt. Christopher John Williams Nesham, in which he returned to England and was paid off towards the close of 1831. He was advanced to the rank he now holds 27 Aug. 1832; and has not been since employed.

Commander Caulfeild received the thanks of the Navy Board in 1827 for his personal exertions in extinguishing a fire which had broken out in alarming proximity to the Dockyard at Woolwich. He married, first, in 1823, Augusta, daughter of Anne, Baroness Crofton, and sister of Capt. Hon. Geo. Alfred Crofton, R.N., by whom he had one son, now an Ensign in the 66th Regt.; and, secondly, Emilia Olivia, daughter of the late Col. French, of Clooniquin, co. Roscommon.

 CAVENDISH. 

is third son of Richard, second Baron Waterpark, by Juliana, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Thos. Cooper, Esq., of Cooper’s Hill and Mullimast Castle, co. Kildare; brother of the present Lord Waterpark, Colonel of the Derbyshire Militia, and of the Hon. Fred. Cavendish, a Captain in the Army; and brother-in-law of the Right. Rev. Thos. Musgrave, D.D., Lord Bishop of Hereford.

This officer entered the Navy, 23 June, 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. Hon. Henry Curzon, Thos. Searle, and Edw. Leveson Gower, employed on the Home station; became, 26 July,, Midshipman of the 74, Capt. Sir John Poo Beresford, with whom, on proceeding to North America, he assisted at the capture, among other vessels, of the ships-of-war Wasp and Frolic; joined next, in , the  80, Capt. Alex. Skene, a cut-down 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, and 60, Capt. Sir Geo. Ralph Collier, in which he aided in taking several American privateers; was afterwards transferred, in succession, to the 98, and  100, flag-ships of Sir Edw. Thornbrough at Portsmouth, 50, Capt. Henry Meynell, fitting out at Plymouth, and  60, bearing the flag of Sir Pulteney Malcolm at St. Helena; passed his examination in 1816; came home, early in 1817, as Acting-Lieutenant of the  10, Capt. Thos. Barker Devon; and after a further attachment to the 36, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Hamilton, and 18, Capt. Hon. John Gordon, at Newfoundland, was there promoted, 14 July, 1818, into the  24, Capt. Robt. Rowley. He was next appointed – 21 Nov. 1818, to the 26, Capt. Hon. John Gordon, on the latter station – and, 29 July, 1821, to the  26, Capts. Thos. Coe and Fred. Marryat, in which he served during a part of the Burmese war. He attained the rank of Commander 7 Aug. 1826; became Second Captain, in the 52, to Sir Edw. Griffith Colpoys, Commander-in-Chief in the West Indies, 3 Oct. 1829; was posted 25 Nov. 1830; then returned home a passenger in the 18; and has not since been afloat.

Capt. Cavendish married, 14 Aug. 1838, Caroline, youngest sister of Chas. Prideaux Prune, Esq., of Prideaux Place, Cornwall, by whom he has issue three children.

 CAWLEY. 

died 30 April, 1846, in his 77th year. He was son of the late Thos. Cawley, Esq., merchant, of Exmouth, co. Devon.

This officer entered the Navy, in Sept. 1793, as A.B., on board the 74, Capt. Hon. Edwin Henry Stanhope, lying in the Downs; removed, as Midshipman, in the following month, to the  98, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Geo. Bowyer; and, on subsequently accompanying the latter officer into the 98, was present in Earl Howe’s actions of 29 May and 1 June, 1794, on which latter occasion he was slightly wounded. From July, 1794, to May, 1798, he was next employed, as Master’s-Mate, on a voyage of discovery to the Pacific, under Capt. Wm. Robt. Broughton, of the 16, and, when on shore at the Sandwich Islands, narrowly escaped being murdered by the natives, the rest of his party havuig been all destroyed. After a servitude of two years on board the 74, bearing the flag of Admiral Rainier