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CHIENE—CHINNERY—CHIVERS—CHRISTIAN. Regiment, K.C.T., K.S.F., &c., a distinguished officer in the service of the Queen of Spain. He was created a Baronet in 1840.

This officer entered the Navy, 7 Feb. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Geo. Cockburn, and, attaining soon afterwards the rating of Midshipman, continued to serve, with the same officer, in the 74,  50, and  and  74’s, at the defence of Cadiz and on the American station, until Aug. 1813. He then joined the 38, Capt. Sam. Jackson, and, until the conclusion of the war with the United States, was very arduously employed in blockading the enemy’s ports and rivers, and on one occasion, 5 Oct. 1814, served with the boats and was wounded at the capture of a gun-vessel and four merchantmen. After an attachment of a few months to the yacht, Capt. Geo. Scott, lying at Weymouth, and to the 36, receiving-ship in the river Thames, bearing the flag of Sir Home Popham, Mr. Chichester was promoted, 11 March, 1816, to the rank of Lieutenant. He next, from 29 Oct. 1816, until June, 1820, served on board the 10, and  18, Capts. Alex. Barclay Branch and Chas. Christ. Parker, on the Irish station; but since the latter date has been on half-pay.

Sir J. P. B. Chichester, who was lately M.P. for Barnstaple, married Caroline, daughter of Thos. Thistlethwaite, Esq., of Southwick Park, Hants, by whom he has issue. – Hallett and Robinson.

 CHIENE. 

, born at Crail, co. Fife, is son of a shipmaster and owner, and nephew of Robt. Chiene, Esq., who died Master-Attendant of the Dockyard at Minorca, in 1802.

This officer entered the Navy, 15 Sept. 1786, as Master’s Servant, on board the 74, Capt. Andw. Sutherland, with whom he served, in the same ship and the 74, on the Home station, until Oct. 1789. Re-embarking, 18 Aug. 1793, as A.B., on board the 64, also commanded by Capt. Sutherland, he took part in the siege of Toulon, as likewise in the reduction of the towns of St. Fiorenza, Bastia, and Calvi; and on his subsequent transference, as Midshipman, to the  74, Capt. Adam Littlejohn, he was with that ship taken by the French Mediterranean fleet, after a long running fight, 7 March, 1795. On regaining his liberty Mr. Chiene joined, 9 Oct. 1795, the 98, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Robt. Linzee. He removed, next, to the 100, flag-ship of Sir John Jervis; and, on 11 Jan. 1797, was promoted to a Lieutenancy in  32, Capt. John Giffard. He continued to serve in the Mediterranean, on board the 98, Capt. Holloway, and  32, Capt. Robt. Campbell, until his return home at the peace; previously to which period he had, as First-Lieutenant of the latter ship, aided at the blockade of Malta, been present in the operations on the coast of Genoa, and obtained the Egyptian medal. From Feb. 1802, until March, 1807 – with the exception of a twelvemonth in 1803-4, when we find him on board the 100, Capt. the Earl of Northesk, on the Home station – Mr. Chiene appears to have been on half-pay. He was then, however, appointed First-Lieutenant of 38, which he fitted for sea without a Captain, and, subsequently, of the  20, Capt. Arch. Duff, 74, Capt. Fras. Beauman (with whom he attended the expedition to Flushing in Aug. 1809), and 64, commanded by the same officer. From April, 1811, until Feb. 1813, he further served, as Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Philip Chas. Durham, on board the 64, and, , , and  74’s, chiefly on the Home station. He was promoted, from the First-Lieutenancy of the 74, Capt. Hugh Downman, to the rank of Commander, 4 Dec. 1813; and has not since been able to procure employment.

 CHINNERY. 

entered the Navy, 25 Feb. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the, Capt. Alex. Milner, on the Home station, where he continued to serve with the same officer, the last three years as Midshipman of the 18, until Aug. 1809; previously to which period he assisted at the capture, 15 Nov. 1807, of the French privateer Friedland, of 2 guns and 41 men. He then removed to the 32, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, under whom he took the privateer Duguay Trouin, of 14 guns and 75 men, and Aimable Josephine, of 14 guns and 105 men, and appears to have actively co-operated with the patriots on the north coast of Spain. We subsequently find him joining, in Feb. 1811, the 74, Capt. Robt. Lloyd, in the Baltic, and, in Feb. 1813, the 74, Capt. John Hayes, on the North American station. Since June, 1815, some time antecedent to which date, 7 Feb. 1815, he had been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, Mr. Chinnery has been on half-pay.

 CHIVERS. 

(b) entered the Navy, 23 Jan. 1807, as A.B., on board the 74, Capt. Peter Puget, and in Sept. following assisted, as Acting-Second-Master, at the bombardment of Copenhagen. In Dec. 1808 he joined the 74, Capt. Edw. Codrington, with whom he served at the siege of Flushing in Aug. 1809, and, in 1810, at the defence of Cadiz. From May, 1813, until Aug. 1815, we find him successively employed, on the Mediterranean and Channel stations, in the 74, Capts. Graham Eden Hamond and Edw. Stirling Dickson, 24, Capt. Alex. Renton Sharpe, and 36, Capt. Gawen Wm. Hamilton. He was then placed on half-pay, having been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 28 Feb. 1815; and has not since been afloat.

 CHRISTIAN. 

, born 23 July, 1784, is eldest son of the late Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian, K.B., by Anne, only daughter of Barnabas Leigh, Esq., of Thorleigh, in the Isle of Wight, and niece of the late Lord Holmes.

This officer entered the Navy, in May, 1792, as a Volunteer, on board the 74, commanded by his father, with whom he removed to the  100, both on the Home station. After escorting H.R.H. the Princess of Wales to this country in the royal yacht, Capt. Wm. Browell, he rejoined the former officer, then Rear-Admiral Christian, as Midshipman, on board the 98, in Oct. 1795; and continuing to serve with him, until Feb. 1797, in the  98,  74, and  44, was present, in the, at the capture of Ste. Lucie, 25 May, 1796. On his return home he became attached for a few months to the 100, bearing the flag of Lord Keith in the Channel; after which he served for some time at the Cape of Good Hope on board  44, and  74, both flag-ships of Sir H. C. Christian, and  74, Capts. Sam. Osborne and Searle. He then joined the 28, Capt. Jas. Athol Wood, and while in that frigate had the misfortune to be wrecked, in pursuit of an enemy’s vessel, off Madagascar, 26 July, 1798. We 