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DANIELL—D’ARANDA. Guard. With an interval of two years (from March, 1841, to March, 1843), he continued in that service, until the period of his death.

 DANIELL. 

,, born 31 Aug. 1797, is second son of Henry Daniell, Esq., of Newforest, co. Westmeath; and a relative of the late Capt. Robt. Corbet, R.N.

This officer entered the Navy, 24 June, 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the, of 48 guns and 295 men, commanded by Capt. Corbet. On the morning of 13 Sept. following, the latter frigate came to close action, off the Isle of France, with the two French frigates Iphigehie and Astrée carrying between them 86 guns and 618 men; and, after a brave but unequal contest of two hours and a half, in which she sustained a loss herself of 49 men killed and 114 (including her Captain, mortally) wounded, and occasioned the enemy one of 10 killed and 35 wounded, was compelled to strike her colours. Towards the close of 1810, Mr. Daniell, on his release from French prison, returned to England with Commodore Josias Rowley, in the 38, Capt. Peter Parker; after which he cruized for a short period on the Home station in the  32, Capt. Hon. Wm. Pakenham; and then, in April, 1811, joined, as Midshipman, the 74, bearing the flag of Sir J. Rowley, whom he accompanied to the Mediterranean. In the course of the three following years, we find him taking part in many cutting-out affairs, but especially on May, 1812, when, with the boats of the, , and , he assisted at the capture of 16, and destruction of 2 deeply-laden vessels, which had taken shelter under the town and batteries of Languelia, on the coast of Italy, and had been secured by various contrivances to the houses and beach – an exploit that cost the British a loss, in life, of 16 men, and, in wounded, of 20. The subject of this sketch also witnessed the unsuccessful attack on Leghorn in Dec. 1813; and, in March and April, 1814, was present at the surrender of the fortress of Santa Maria, with the enemy’s forts and defences in the Gulf of Spezia, and also of the town of Genoa. Until the receipt of his first commission, 15 May, 1823, Mr. Daniell, who passed his examination in Sept. 1816, further served, on the Mediterranean, Irish, and African stations, as Master’s Mate, Admiralty Midshipman, and occasionally as Acting-Lieutenant, in the 38, Capt. Thos. Ussher, 74, flag-ship of Sir John Poo Beresford,  18, Capt. Joseph Patey,  18, Capt. Wm. Wolrige, 50, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland,  74, bearing the flag of Sir J. Rowley,  18, Capt. John Gore,  again,  surveying-vessel, Capt. Wm. Fitzwilliam Owen, 10, Capt. Alex. Thos. Emeric Vidal, and 38, Capt. Evan Nepean. He was next appointed, 7 May, 1827, First of the 10, Capt. Geo. Bohun Martin; and for his services in that vessel at the ensuing battle of Navarin, was promoted, on completing his servitude as Lieutenant, to the rank of Commander, 7 May, 1829. Capt. Daniell subsequently commanded the 16, on the West India station, from 7 June, 1832, until paid off, 6 Oct. 1835. Since his attainment of Post-rank, 28 June, 1838, he has not been employed.

He married, 23 June, 1842, Alice Katherine, eldcat daughter of the Right Hon. Francis Blackburne, Master of the Rolls in Ireland, and has issue a son. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 DANIELL. 

entered the Navy, 3 Oct. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Sir Rich. King, under whom he served on the Home and Mediterranean stations, the last three years as Midshipman, until Feb. 1812. He then became attached for short periods to the 38, Capt. Jas. Alex. Gordon, and 16, Capt. Wm. Westcott Daniell; after which he again cruized with Capt. Gordon on the 38; and, proceeding eventually to North America in the  40, Capt. Joseph Nourse, took part, on removing to the  80, flag-ship of Sir Alex. Cochrane, in the expedition against New Orleans. He was promoted, 18 Feb. 1815, to a Lieutenancy in the troop-ship, Capt. Dan. Lawrence; and since 30 Aug. following has been on half-pay.

Lieut. Daniell is a Justice of the Peace for the counties of Uitenhage and Albany, Cape of Good Hope. He married, 16 May, 1839, Harriett Mary, second daughter of the late P. Dunsterville, Esq., of Plymouth. – Frederick Dufaur.

 DANIELL, Kt. 

died 15 Sept. 1845, at Sierra Leone. He was youngest son of the late Ralph Allen Daniell, Esq., of Trelissick, co. Cornwall, M.P. for West Looe, by Ehzabeth Mason, daughter of the Rev. W. Pooley, rector of Ladock; brother of John Daniell, Esq., an officer in the 7th Hussars; and brother-in-law of Lieut. Col. Gossett, R.E., C.B., K.S.F. He received the honour of Knighthood in 1836.

This officer entered the Navy, in March, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capt. Robt. Carthew Reynolds, attached to the fleet in the Channel; served afterwards for seven years with Capt. John West, as Midshipman, in the and  74’s, on the Mediterranean station, where he co-operated for some time with the patriots of Catalonia; passed his examination in April, 1813; and on 16 Sept. following was confirmed to a Lieutenancy in the  sloop, Capt. Arden Adderley. We subsequently find him appointed – 25 March, 1815, and 3 July, 1816, to the 98, and  100, flag-ships of Lord Exmouth, in the latter of which he bore a part in the battle of Algiers – 17 Sept. 1817, to the  104, bearing the flag of the same officer at Plymouth – 3 June, 1818, to the  26, Capt. Fras. Erskine Lock, on the East India station – and 17 Dec. 1825, to the 120, flag-ship at the Nore of Sir Robt. Moorsom. He obtained his second commission 22 Nov. 1826; officiated subsequently as an Inspecting Commander in the Coast Guard, from 30 June, 1835, until the summer of 1838; and being appointed, 26 Jan. 1842, to the 16, served in that vessel in North America and the West Indies, and on the Coast of Africa, until the period of his decease. – Holmes and Folkhard.

 D’ARANDA. 

entered the Navy, 9 July, 1801, as Midshipman, on board the 74, Capt. Sir Fras. Laforey, whom he eventually accompanied to the West Indies. In April, 1803, he joined the Diligence 20, Capt. Alex. Robt. Kerr, on the home station; and from July, 1804, until Nov. 1808, he served, nearly the whole time as Master’s Mate, on board the 74, Capts. Sam. Pym and Jas. Sanders, in which he appears to have been present at the battle of St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806, and subsequently at the blockade of Cadiz. He obtained his commission 16 Dec. 1808, and was afterwards appointed – 31 May, 1809, to the 10, Capt. Geo. Edw. Watts, in the Baltic – 1 May, 1811, to the 24, Capts. John Clavell and Hon. Wm. Gordon, on the Channel station – 31 March, 1812, as First-Lieutenant, to the 20, Capt. Pitt Burnaby Greene, in South America – 27 Aug. 1812, to the command, on the latter station, of the  12, which he retained until 14 March, 1814 – and, in the course of 1816, to the, , and  frigates, Capts. Arthur Fanshawe and Sam. Jackson, employed in the West Indies and North America, whence he returned home in Sept. 1817. Lieut. D’Aranda – who afterwards commanded the from 17 Aug. 1842 until 28 Jan. 1843, and during that period visited the river St. Lawrence – has