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CORRY—CORSBIE—CORY. Lord Gardner; and first-cousin of Lieut. Alan Henry Gardner, R.N.

This officer entered the Navy, 13 April, 1809, as Sec.-cl. Boy, on board the 74, Capt. Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge, and in the course of the same year attended the expedition to the Walcheren. In Dec. he became Midshipman of the 32, Capt. Hon. Granville Geo. Waldegrave; and, continuing to serve with that officer, in the same ship and the 38, until his promotion, 13 April, 1815, witnessed a variety of active operations in the Mediterranean. In the boats of the former ship he aided at the capture and destruction of a large and well-protected convoy near Amanthea 25 July, 1810, and was wounded while contributing to the demolition of 10 large armed feluccas on the beach close to Cetraro, in the Gulf of Policastro, 16 June, 1811: in those of the he assisted in wrenching from the enemy a national schooner of 4 guns, and 20 merchantmen, near the town of St. Mary’s, 29 April, 1812, and was twice employed, 30 March and 2 May, 1813, in taking convoys and destroying the batteries at Morjean, between Toulon and Marseilles, besides participating in one or two other affairs of minor note. Mr. Cornwall next served from 13 April, 1813, until Aug. 1819, with Capt. Wm. Bowles in the and  frigates, stationed for the protection of trade in South America; and was lastly appointed, 6 April, 1826, to the  74, Capt. Joshua Sydney Horton, in which ship we find him conveying the Duke of Devonshire to St. Petersburg, on the occasion of his Grace’s embassy to that court. Being senior officer at Cronstadt at the time of the conflagration which shortly afterwards broke out in the arsenal at that place, Mr. Cornwall so materially assisted in subduing its ravages that the Emperor in acknowledgment presented him with an elegant ring. His promotion to the rank of Commander bears date 22 Nov. 1826.

Commander Cornwall married, 5 Dec. 1822, Charlotte Susan, sister of the present Sir John Kenward Shaw, Bart., and of the late Capt. Chas. Shaw, R.N., by whom he has issue three sons and two daughters. – Hallett and Robjnson.

 CORRY. 

entered the Navy, 1 Aug. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 64, Capt. Sir Home Popham; and, after assisting in the operations against the Cape of Good Hope and Buenos Ayres, returned to England in May, 1807, as Midshipman of the  64, Capt. Wm. Cuming. Joining, then, the 38, Capt. Robt. Honyman, he assisted at the ensuing bombardment of Copenhagen, and was afterwards wrecked, near the entrance of Milford Haven, 31 Jan. 1808. From that period until the receipt of his first commission, 28 April, 1812, Mr. Corry served, on the Home and Mediterranean stations, on board the 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood; after which he appears to have been successively appointed – 17 June, 1812, and 29 July, 1813, to the  32, and  74, both commanded by Capt. Peter Heywood, on the Brazilian station – 28 May, 1814, to the  104, flag-ship of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence, in which he escorted to this country the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia – and 5 Sept. following, to the  24, Capts. Wm. Robilliard and Robt. Bloye. Having been promoted to the rank of Commander 13 June, 1815, and invested, 14 Oct. 1820, with the command of the 18, he next sailed for the East Indies, where he became, 23 July, 1821, Flag-Captain, in the  60, to his old friend the Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, with whom he continued until Feb. 1822, when he invalided home on board the  28, Capt. John Norman Campbell. Assuming command, 4 April, 1835, of the 50, we find Capt. Corry conveying the Earl of Durham to Constantinople, and, while subsequently stationed in charge of a squadron on the coast of Spain, receiving the thanks of the Queen, her Ministers, and the Captains-General of the various provinces, for his exertions in landing with the various ships’ companies under his orders, and preserving to her Majesty the towns of Barcelona and Valencia. The being paid off in April, 1839, the subject of this sketch next commissioned, 7 Sept. 1844, the  steam-frigate, for the purpose of commanding an experimental squadron of brigs; and on his return to port was transferred, 13 Dec. in the same year, to the  80, in which he has since taken part in other trial cruizes.

Capt. Corry married, 10 Sept. 1842, Eliza Massy Dawson, widow of the late Eyre Coote, Esq., of West Park, Fordingbridge, Hants. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 CORSBIE. 

died 14 Jan. 1846.

This officer entered the Navy, in April, 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 100, Capt. John Knight, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Lord Hood; and, on removing to the  50, Capt. Henry Mowat, witnessed, as Midshipman, the capture of the French frigate l’Elisabeth, of 36 guns, on the coast of America, 28 Aug. 1796. Until the peace he next served with the Channel fleet on board the and  98’s, Capts. John Holloway, Wm. Wolseley, and Sampson Edwards, and 110, Capts. Geo. Eyre and Jas. Carpenter. After a lapse of five years, during which period he had commanded a merchant-ship, and had been in French prison, Mr. Corsbie re-entered the service on board the, Capt. W. B. Ryder, and in May, 1808, was appointed Sub-Lieutenant of the fire-vessel, Lieut.-Commander D. Lancaster. From 25 March, 1809, on which day he attained the full rank of Lieutenant, until he left his ship 19 Oct. 1813, he further served, at Home and in the West Indies, on board the Leyden 64, Capt. Thos. Ussher,, Capt. Welsh, , Capts. Denman and Ryder,, Capt. Buckland Stirling Bluett, Duke, Capt. Grant, and troop-ship, Capt. Hon. Geo. Alfred Crofton. He did not afterwards go afloat. – Hallett and Robinson.

 CORY. 

entered the Navy, 21 Dec. 1806, as A.B., on board the sloop, Capt. Edw. Reynolds Sibly, with whom he proceeded to the Rio de la Plata, and then to the West Indies, where he attained the rating of Midshipman 3 Feb. 1808. After cruizing for some time, on his return, in the 16, Capt. Jas. Stevenson, he joined, in Nov. of the latter year, the 74, bearing the flag of Sir Sam. Hood, until whose death in Dec. 1814, he successively accompanied him into the 110,  74,  36, and  and  74’s, and served on the North Sea, Mediterranean, and East India stations. He then came home; served with Capt. Joseph Nourse, of the 40, on the coast of France, during the war of 100 days; and was ultimately promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated 4 March, 1815. In the latter capacity Mr. Cory appears to have been appointed – 24 Dec. 1825, as First, to the 28, Capt. Septimus Arabin, on the coast of Africa – 28 April, 1830, again as Senior, to the  46, Capt. John Duff Markland, off Lisbon – 30 July, 1832, to the  84, flag-ship on the same station of Rear-Admiral Wm. Parker – and, 5 Sept. 1834, to the yacht, Capt. Lord Adolphus FitzClarence. Having obtained his second promotal commission 20 Feb. 1836, he next, from 9 March, 1837, until paid off in 1840, commanded the 28, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Lord John Hay on the coast of Portugal. Since his elevation to Post-rank, 1 Aug. 1840, Capt. Cory has been unemployed.

