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ADDINGTON—ADDIS—AGASSIZ—AGNEW—AINSLIE. at length appointed, 2 Aug. 1827, to the 120, bearing the flag at the Nore of Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, in which ship he continued until shortly previous to his advancement to the rank of Commander, 22 July, 1830. He has since been on half-pay. – Hallett and Robinson.

 ADDINGTON. 

, born 25 March, 1824, is second son of the present Viscount Sidmouth, by Mary, daughter of the Rev. John Young; and grandson of the Right Hon. Henry Addington, who, on resigning the office of Prime Minister, was elevated to the peerage as first Viscount Sidmouth.

This officer passed his examination 20 July, 1843; was appointed Mate, 4 July, 1845, of the 110, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Sir Wm. Parker; and obtained his commission 8 June, 1846. He has not since been employed.

 ADDIS. 

entered the Navy, 13 Aug, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Frank Sotheron, employed in the defence of the Bay of Naples; removed as Midshipman, in July, 1806, to the  74, Capt. John Okes Hardy; and on next joining the  64, Capt. Robt. Raynsford, was wrecked, on the Esquerques Rocks, near Sicily, 8 Oct. following, on which occasion the Commander and 396 of the crew were lost. He then became attached to the 74, Capt. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, off Cadiz, and on his return to England in the, flag-ship of Sir John Duckworth, joined, in Oct. 1807, the , Capt. Geo. Harris, under whom (with the exception of a brief attachment, during the summer of 1810, to the 74, flagship of Rear-Admiral Wm. O’Brien Drury) he continued principally to serve, both in the  and in the  frigate, the last two years as Lieutenant (commission dated 9 Aug. 1811), until June, 1813. In Aug. 1810, Mr. Addis ably assisted, as Acting Lieutenant, at the destruction by the boats of the and of the  64, under the immediate orders of Lieut. Joseph Prior, of a French privateer and two gun-vessels, beneath a continued fire from the batteries of Bantam, in Java; and on 23 May, 1811, he again served in the boats, and contributed, in a most undaunted gallant manner, to the capture, off Rembang, of a fiercely defended flotilla of Dutch gun-vessels and armed proas. Being next appointed, 11 Aug. 1813, to the sloop, Capt. Wm. Henderson, he served on the West India station, whither he accompanied the outward-bound trade, until placed on half-pay in Nov. 1814; after which, from Sept. 1824 until 1830, he appears to have been employed on the Coast Blockade as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the and, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Wm. Jas. Mingaye. Since the latter date he has again been on half-pay.

Lieut. Addis received in 1842, and still holds, the appointment of Crown Commissioner at Port Philip. He married, 9 March, 1826, Elizabeth, daughter of the late Lieut. Mc Arthur, of Haslar.

 AGASSIZ. 

is son of

This officer entered the Navy 7 May, 1815; passed his examination in 1823; and was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 20 March, 1829, in the 18, Capt. Thos. S. Griffinhoofe, on the coast of Africa, whence he returned to England in Jan. 1830. His appointments have since been – 28 Feb 1838, to the 78, Capt. John Drake, on the Lisbon station – 25 May, 1838, to the  72, Capt. Fairfax Moresby, in the Mediterranean – and 6 April, 1844, as First Lieutenant, to the  50, Capt. Hon. John Gordon, with whom he returned home from the Pacific in the summer of 1846.

 AGASSIZ. 

entered the Navy, 30 Dec. 1780, as Captain’s Servant on board the, Capt. Edm. Dod, whom,in Oct. 1787, after an interval of five years, he rejoined, as Midshipman, in the frigate. Quitting that ship in Sept. 1790, he next, in Aug. 1793, became attached to the, Lieut.-Commander Rich. Welland. On 23 Sept. 1795, he was promoted from the 98, Capt. E. Dod, to a Lieutenancy in the  64, Capt. Edw. Oliver Osborn, and while in that ship was present at the surrender of the Dutch squadron in Saldanha Bay, 17 Aug. 1796. He afterwards in succession joined the 64, Capt. Edw. Oliver Osborn, 64, Capt. Gardner,, Capt. Billy Douglas,  74, Capt. Wm. Essington, sloop, Capt. Chas. Lydiard, 74, Capt. Wm. Mitchell, and Hound, Capt. Geo. Sarradine. On 21 Aug. 1801, we find him, in conjunction with Lieut. Henry Le Vescomte, commanding the boats of the latter sloop and of a squadron, and acquiring the praise of Lord Nelson for his gallantry and zeal at the capture and destruction, with but trifling loss to the British, of six flat-bottomed gun-vessels, which had been driven on shore near St. Valery, and were protected by the fire of a body of military and five field-pieces. After eight months’ command of the gun-brig, in the Downs and off Boulogne, Mr. Agassiz was promoted to the rank of Commander, by commission dated 29 April, 1802. His next and last appointments were, 6 Sept. 1804, and 22 Jan. 1806, to the defence-ship, and  sloop, in which latter vessel he appears to have been employed in escorting convoys to and from Newfoundland and the Western Islands until placed on half-pay in Oct. 1809. He retired with the rank of Captain 10 Sept. 1840.

Capt. Agassiz is married and has issue. One of his sons,, is a Lieutenant, R.N., and another, Lewis, a Second Lieutenant, R.M.

 AGNEW. 

, born 11 Oct. 1819, is second son of Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart., of Lochnaw, co. Wigtoun, by Madalene, daughter of Sir David Carnegie, Bart., of Southesk.

This officer entered the Navy 15 Aug. 1834; passed his examination 21 Dec. 1839; and served as Mate, on the East India and North America and West India stations, of the 72, Capt. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas, 50, Capt. Thos. Wren Carter, and 72, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Adam. He obtained a Lieutenancy, 28 April, 1843, in the 16, Capt. Robt. Sharpe, on the station last mentioned, where he was afterwards appointed, 18 Oct. following, and 23 Feb. 1844, to the 36, and  26, Capts. Hon. Montagu Stopford and Geo. Elliot. Since his return to England, in 1846, Mr. Agnew has been on half-pay.

 AINSLIE. 

, born in 1813, is third son of Sir Robt. Sharpe Ainslie, Bart., of Great Torrington, co. Lincoln; and nephew of Lieut. Geo. Ralph Ainslie, R.N ., who was lost on board the 74, in Dec. 1796.

This officer entered the Navy 20 Oct. 1826; passed his examination in 1833; served as Gunnery Mate, in 1837-8, of the 28, Capt. Lord John Hay; and obtained, his commission 30 June, 1838. His appointments have since been – 16 Jan. 1839, to the gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings – 1 Feb. 1840, to the 78, Capt. Edw. Barnard, under whom he bore a part in the ensuing operations on the coast of Syria – 10 Feb. 1844, again to the – and 28