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COLQUHOUN—COLQUITT—COLSTON—COLTHURST. reduction of the Isles of France and Java. Having returned home on board the 36, Capt. Wm. Jones Lye, we find Mr. Colman joining, for a few months in 1813, the 32, flag-ship at Chatham of Rear-Admiral Thos. Surridge; after which he served, on the coasts of Spain and America, in the troop-ship, Capt. Hon. Geo. Alfred Crofton, 40, Capt. Joseph Nourse,  64, Commodore A. F. Evans,  sloop, Capt. David Scott,  again, and  80, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane. During his latter attachment to the, Mr. Colman, who had previously acted as Lieutenant of the , took part in the land-hostilities against Washington and Baltimore, as well as in those against New Orleans, where he was wounded. Since the date of his official promotion, 21 Feb. 1815, the subject of this sketch has – with the exception of a brief period, in 1839-40, when he held an appointment in the Coast Guard – been unemployed. – Hallett and Robinson.

 COLQUHOUN. 

was born in 1793.

This officer entered the NaVy, in Nov. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 64, Capts. Alex. Ball and Robt. Devereux Fancourt, guard-ship at the Nore; and, joining next the 18, Capts. Pitt Burnaby Greene and Jas. Mackenzie, continued to be employed in that vessel, on the Home station, until detached in command of a prize early in 1809. After an intermediate servitude, as Supernumerary-Midshipman, on board the guard-ship at Plymouth, he became attached, in Sept. following, to the  36, Capt. Arth. Farquhar, stationed in the North Sea, where he appears to have taken part in much active boat-service, including numerous cutting-out affairs, and the capture of many of the enemy’s vessels. Having been again placed in charge of a prize, Mr. Colquhoun unfortunately, on 21 Dec. 1810, fell into the hands of the enemy, and, being shortly afterwards wrecked off an island on the coast of Holland, – where he was washed on shore, bruised, frost-bitten, and in a state of insensibility, – was sent to Valenciennes, and ultimately to Sedan. After several thwarted attempts, he at length, in Feb. 1813, contrived to effect his escape, and, arriving at Portsmouth, rejoined the, still commanded by Capt. Farquhar, with whom he subsequently sailed with convoy for Quebec in the 40. He obtained his commission 20 March, 1815; and was afterwards employed on Lakes Ontario and Huron, under Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, until his return home towards the close of 1816. Since that period he has not been afloat.

Lieut. Colquhoun – who married, first, 20 Aug. 1834, and by that marriage has issue a son and daughter – espoused,secondly, in 1839, Ann, daughter of the late Rev. T. Brown, of Innerskip. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 COLQUITT. 

entered the Navy, 10 Dec. 1783, as Captain’s Servant, on board the 90, Capt. John Wainwright, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Rear-Admiral Alex. Arthur Hood (afterwards Lord Bridport); subsequently to which he cruized, until Dec. 1789, latterly as Midshipman, in the 20, Capt. Geo. Palmer, and frigate, Capt. Isaac Coffin, on the Irish, Channel, and Halifax stations. In Sept. 1793 he rejoined Capt. Coffin in the 36); and, serving next, from March, 1794, to Oct. 1795, in the  of 44, and InDErATiGABLE of 46 guuS, both commanded by Sir Edw. Pellew, shared, 23 April, 1794, in the capture, by the  and  36, after a resolute battle of three hours, and a loss to the former ship of 3 men killed and 5 wounded, of the French vessels Le Babet of 22, and La Pomone of 44 guns. On 22 Feb. 1796, Mr. Colquitt, who had previously held for upwards of two months an acting order as Lieutenant on board the  44, Capt. Fras. Cole, was officially promoted into the  16, Capt. John Coohet. He was subsequently appointed, 18 March, 1796, to the  98, flag-ship off Cadiz of Sir John Colpoys – and, 12 June, 1798, and 1 April, 1801, as First-Lieutenant, to the  36, Capts. Lord Henry Paulet and Josiah Nisbet, and  38, Capt. Hon. Chas. Paget, employed respectively in the Mediterranean and off the coast of Spain. Of the he appears to have been for some time Acting-Captain. Having obtained his second promotal commission 29 April, 1802, we next find Capt. Colquitt commanding the floating battery, off Lymington and Liverpool, from 18 June, 1803, until 16 June, 1809; and then the  18, on the West India and Mediterranean stations. He obtained his Post commission 21 Oct. 1810; and the rank he now holds 1 Oct. 1846.

The Rear-Admiral’s first wife having died 3 Nov. 1823, he married, secondly, 27 Dec. 1843, Frances Rachael, daughter of the late Rev. Jas. Wiggett, Rector of Crudwell, Wilts.

 COLSTON. 

was born 21 Oct. 1795.

This officer entered the Navy 24 June, 1810; and, while attached, in 1811-12, as a Volunteer, to the 38, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, partook of a variety of active operations on the coast of Italy, including the capture and destruction of a battery and convoy at Pisciota, and (with a loss to the British of 5 men killed and 11 wounded) of a tower, two batteries, 10 gun-boats, and 22 richly-laden feluccas, defended, in the harbour of Palinuro, by a force of 700 troops and armed peasantry. During a subsequent servitude in the 120,  98, and  100, all flagships of Lord Exmouth, he witnessed the partial skirmish with the French fleet off Toulon, 5 Nov. 1813 – officiated as Clerk to his Lordship’s Secretary during the negotiations with the Barbary Powers for the abolition of Christian slavery – and was present, 27 Aug. 1816, at the bombardment of Algiers, where he was wounded by a splinter in the face and ankle, and by a musket-ball in the thigh. Having been allowed by special order, when in the West Indies, in 1825, to pass his examination for Lieutenant, Mr. Colston was, on 3 Oct. in that year, advanced to the rank he now holds, and appointed, 31 Oct. 1828, to his present command in the Coast Gdard. Among various seizures since effected by Lieut. Colston, we may notice the capture, 21 Oct. 1832, of a noted French smuggler, a sloop of 35 tons, with a cargo of tobacco on board.

He married 1 Sept. 1825, and has issue seven children. – J. Hinxman.

 COLTHURST. 

entered the Navy, in 1796, as L.M., on board the 38, Capt. Jonathan Faulknor, and until 1802 served, partly as Midshipman, in the same ship, the  74, bearing the flag of Admiral Berkeley, and  98, Capt. Rich. Grindall, on the Irish and Channel stations. He then accompanied the latter officer into the 98; went, in 1804, to Barbadoes, as Admiralty-Midshipman of the  sloop, Hon. Capt. Cathcart; took part, on rejoining the, in the battle of Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805; and, on 19 Sept. 1806, was promoted, from the  98, flagship of Lord Collingwood off Cadiz, to a Lieutenancy in the  38, Capt. Geo. Argles, employed, successively, off the coasts of France, Africa, and South America. Until the conclusion of the war in 1815, Mr. Colthurst’s next Appointments were – 6 Dec. 1809, to the 32, Capt. Sir Wm. Bolton, cruizing first on the Irish coast, and then off Cadiz – 24 Jan. 1812, to the 74, Capt. Thos. Harvey, on the Halifax station – and, soon afterwards, as Senior-Lieutenant, to the gun-boat