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COUCH—COULL—COULSON—COURTENAY. COUCH. 

passed his examination 27 Oct. 1843; and, while serving, as Mate, in the Pacific, of the steam-frigate, Capt. Thos. Henderson, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 9 Nov. 1846.

 COULL. 

, passed his examination 16 Nov. 1838; was for some time employed, as Mate, on board the Revenue-cruizer, Lieut.-Commander Josias Drew; and, obtaining an appointment in the Coast Guard 28 Feb. 1842, continued in that service until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 4 July, 1846. He is now on half-pay.

 COULSON. 

, born 7 Jan. 1801, is second son of John Blenkinsopp Coulson, Esq., of Blenkinsopp Castle, Lieut.-Colonel of the Northumberland Militia, and a Deputy-Lieutenant for that shire; brother of Capts. John and Robt. Coulson, of the Grenadier Guards; and nephew of Capt. Robt. Lisle Coulson, R.N., who died in 1822, aged 42.

This officer entered the Navy, 28 Oct. 1813, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 18, commanded in the North Sea by his uncle, Capt. R. L. Coulson, with whom, and Capt. Edw. Curzon, he afterwards served in the West Indies until Nov. 1818, as Midshipman of the 18. In March, 1819, he joined the 60, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Edw. Griffith at Halifax, where he was confirmed, 7 Jan. 1823, to a Lieutenancy in the 28, Capt. Edw. Reynolds Sibly. We subsequently find him appointed – 29 Oct. 1825, to the 10, Capt. Chas. Hope, lying at Chatham – 23 Jan. 1826, to the 42, Capt. Sir Chas. Sullivan, in which ship he was stationed off the coast of Portugal at the time the army of occupation was at Lisbon, then visited the Morea with Sir Fred. Adam, Alexandria with the present Lord Howden, and Rio de Janeiro with Lord Strangford, and served for six months on the latter station under the broad pendant of Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy – 23 Feb. 1831, to the 50, Capt. Robt. Maunsell, with whom he appears to have been actively employed for three years in the Mediterranean, where he witnessed the establishment of King Otho on the throne of Greece, and was presented, when off Alexandria, with a sword by Mehemet All – and, 18 Nov. 1839, as First-Lieutenant, to the 42, Capt. Thos. Bourchier. For his zealous services during the ensuing hostilities in China, – where he was present at the early destruction of the batteries and war-junks at Amoy, witnessed the evacuation of Chusan, and commanded a division of boats in the various operations against Canton, – Mr. Coulson was advanced to his present rank 8 June, 1841. He then returned home; and has not since held any appointment.

Commander Coulson married, in Dec. 1843, Anne Lindsay, only child of the Rev. Henry Wastell, of Newbrough, co. Northumberland. – J. Woodhead.

 COURTENAY. 

, born in 1795, at Beach Hall, near Chester, is son of Clement Strafford Courtenay, Esq., who served in the old 92nd regiment during the first American war, and raised the Cheshire Fencibles at the commencement of hostilities with France; nephew of Capt. Geo. Wm. Augustus Courtenay, who commanded the 32, and fell in a gallant action with the French 36-gun frigate Embuscade, 31 July, 1793; grand-nephew, paternally, of the celebrated Earl of Bute, who resigned the office of First Lord of the Treasury in 1763; and first-cousin of the present Sir Robt. Henry Cunliffe, Bart.

This officer entered the Navy, 26 Sept. 1805 (under the auspices of Earl St. Vincent), as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 38, Capt. the present Sir Wm. Parker; and, continuing in that ship for upwards of six years, a great part of the time as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, saw much active boat-service – was employed with a naval brigade on the coasts of Biscay and Asturias – and assisted, in company with the 98, at the capture, after a long running fight, and a loss to the  of 3 men killed and 6 wounded, of the 80-gun ship Marengo, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule, 13 March, 1806. He next joined in succession the 100, and  74, flag-ships in the Baltic and at Newfoundland of Sir Jas. Saumarez and Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats; obtained a Lieutenancy in the 38, Capt. John Quilliam, on the latter station, 19 July, 1813; and was subsequently appointed – 27 April, 1815, to the  110, flag-ship in the Channel of Sir Rich. Strachan – 9 June, 1817, to the 36, Capt. Robt. Henderson, off Brighton – 15 March, 1818, to the 42, Capt. Hyde Parker, in which frigate he visited Quebec and Jamaica – 12 Aug. 1819, to the  10, Capt. Rich. Saumarez, lying at Portsmouth – in Feb. 1820, to the again, on the Mediterranean station – and, 22 March, 1822, to the  20, Capt. Percy Grace. In Oct. following Mr. Courtenay commanded the boats of the latter vessel, and displayed great intrepidity and judgment, at the destruction of two slave-factories in the Gallinas River, on the coast of Africa; on which occasion his party, who experienced a very formidable opposition, sustained a loss of one man mortally, and three slightly wounded. Being promoted, 26 Dec. 1823, to the 20, he became for a few months Senior officer on the African station; after which he held the temporary command of the  36, during the Ashantee war; and then, returning to the, captured two Brazilian vessels, with 728 slaves on board. Capt. Courtenay was next appointed, 17 April, 1827, to the 10, fitting for the West Indies; where he removed, 12 Sept. following, to the  18, and was made Post 14 April, 1828, in the  receiving-ship at Jamaica. Having assumed command, 5 Jan. 1829, of the 26, he returned to England and was paid off in 1831; since which period he has not held any appointment afloat.

Capt. Courtenay was Consul-General at Hayti from 1832 until 1842. – Goode and Lawrence.

 COURTENAY. 

entered the Navy, 24 May, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 64, Capt. Edw. Durnford King, with whom he sailed for the East Indies, and thence returned in convoy of a fleet of Indiamen. In Sept. 1808, he joined the 64, Capt. Wm. Cumberland, flag-ship afterwards in the Baltic of Rear-Admiral Thos. Bertie, and ultimately commanded by Capt. Edw. Stirling Dickson, under whom he co-operated, as Midshipman, in the defence of Tarifa, in Dec. 1811. From June, 1812, until Aug. 1815, he next served on board the 74, Capt. E. D. King, off Toulon,  36, Capt. Jas. Whitley Deans Dundas, in the Bay of Biscay, 18, Capts. Jas. John Gordon Bremer and Thos. Parry Jones Parry, off the coast of Spain, 36, Capt. Wm. Pryce Cumby, on the Lisbon station, and sloop, Capt. Thos. Lambe Polden Laugharne, off Scilly. While with Capt. Bremer in the, Mr. Courtenay assisted, in company with the 18, and in sight of the  74, at the capture, 21 Oct. 1813, of the French frigate Le Weser, of 40 guns and 340 men, after a stern conflict, and a loss to the  of 2 men killed and 9 wounded. Having obtained his commission 8 March, 1815, he appears to have been subsequently appointed – 4 June, 1828, to the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the 42, Capt. Wm. Jas.