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DELAFONS—DELAFOSSE—DELAP—DE LISLE—DELMÉ. Julia Matilda, married, 20 May, 1841, Alex. John Greenlaw, Esq., 40th Regt. N.I.

 DELAFONS. 

, born 31 Dec. 1789, at Gosport, is younger brother of

This officer entered the Navy, in June, 1802, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the brig, Capt. John Delafons, whom he soon afterwards accompanied to the East Indies, as Midshipman of the  18. After a successive transference on that station to the frigate, Capt. Peter Heywood, and  74, Capt. Joseph Bingham, he returned to England in 1805, on board the  64, bearing the flag of Admiral Peter Rainier. On next joining the 74, flag-ship of Sir John Thos. Duckworth, he sailed for the Mediterranean, and thence proceeded to the West Indies, where he bore a part in the battle off St. Domingo, 6 Feb. 1806. Between April, 1807, and the date of his promotion, which took place 3 Sept. 1810, Mr. Delafons next served, chiefly in the North Sea, on board the 20, Capt. Arthur Farquhar,  brig, Capt. Francis John Nott,  gun-brig, Lieut.-Commanders Thos. Cowper Sherwin and Anthony Bliss Wm. Lord, and 32, Capt. Peter Heywood. He was afterwards appointed, on the Halifax, West India, and Home stations, to the 24, Capt. Jas. Bradshaw, 18, Capt. Gordon,  16, Capt. Henry Jane,  74, Capt. Rich. Harrison Pearson, and and  brigs, Capts. Jas. Montagu and Geo. Hewson. He was placed on half-pay in Nov. 1815; and has not since been afloat.

Lieut. Delafons married 30 Dec. 1815. – Joseph Woodhead.

 DELAFOSSE. 

was born 8 Nov. 1788.

This officer entered the Navy, 2 March, 1801 (under the auspices of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence), as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 18, Capt. Jas. Brisbane; and, after sharing in the battle of Copenhagen 2 April, 1801, proceeded with that officer to the West Indies, as Midshipman of the 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Thos. Totty, who shortly afterwards died on board. In Nov. 1802, he joined the 38, Capt. Thos. Manby, in the North Sea; and on proceeding to the East Indies in 1805 on board the 32, Capt. Hon. Chas. Elphinstone, became attached to the 74, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Troubridge; from which ship, after she took the ground, and was nearly lost, at the entrance of the Straits of Malacca, he removed, 9 June, 1806, to the 32, Capt. Hon. Arch. Cochrane. On his return home in Aug. 1807, as Master’s Mate of the 36, Capt. John Cramer (previously to which he had cruized for three months with Capt. Wm. Aug. Montagu in the  sloop), Mr. Delafosse joined the  74, Capt. Robt. Barton; of which ship, after witnessing the surrender of Madeira, he was created a Lieutenant 9 April, 1808. In the course of 1809 he further beheld the reduction of Martinique and the Saintes, the capture of the French 74-guu ship D’Haupoult, and the siege of Flushing. He subsequently sailed for the Mediterranean, where, in Feb. 1811, he exchanged into the 32, Capts. Henry Whitby and Thos. Garth. In Jan. 1813, as First-Lieutenant of the latter frigate, Mr. Delafosse commanded her boats at the capture of an armed and deeply-laden trabacocolo. He also, in the following March, cut out another vessel of the same description under a battery near Brindisi, and assisted in dismantling a tower and destroying a battery and several vessels in a creek between the towns of Bari and St. Vito; after which he took temporary possession, 11 April, 1813, of Devil’s Island, near the north entrance of Corfu – was wounded, on 14 of the same month, in another boat affair at the island of Melera – and actively co-operated in the proximate reduction of Trieste. We subsequently find him appointed Senior-Lieutenant, 18 May, 1815, of the 24, flag-ship on the Jersey and Guernsey station of Sir Thos. Fras. Fremantle – and, 20 Jan. and 11 April, 1816, of the troop-ship, Capt. Robt. Henly Rogers, and 36, Capt. Edm. Palmer. For his services at the ensuing bombardment of Algiers, Mr. Delafosse was rewarded with the rank of Commander 16 Sept. 1816. He was afterwards employed in the Coast Guard in Dorsetshire, from 1828 to 1831; and on 3 Jan. in the latter year he received the thanks of the magistrates at Christchurch for his distinguished zeal and alacrity in suppressing various incendiary disturbances in the county of Hants. Since 1831 he has not been employed.

Commander Delafosse had a gratuity of 50l. from the Patriotic Fund. He married, 12 Aug. 1820, Sophia, daughter of the Rev. Geo. Chilton Lambton Young, of Iver, Bucks. – J. Chippendale.

 DELAP. 

entered the Navy, 1 June, 1805, as A.B., on board sloop, Capts. Edw. Kittoe and James Stuart, on the Irish station, where he attained the rating of Midshipman 9 Sept. 1806. From Feb. 1809 to Feb. 1812, he next served with the Channel fleet, nearly the whole time as Master’s Mate, in the 80, Capts. Henry Lidgbird Ball, Valentine Collard, Robt. Plampin, and Geo. Scott; under the first of whom he was present at the destruction of the French shipping in Basque Roads, 11 and 12 April, 1809. He afterwards joined in succession the, , and 74’s, commanded, on the Home and American stations, by Capts. Sir Jahleel Brenton, Augustus Brine, David Milne, and Farmery Predam Epworth. Obtaining his commission 11 Feb. 1815, Mr. Delap next served, on the Bermuda and Downs stations, in the sloop, Capt. Wm. Slaughter, from 18 May to 12 Aug. following. He has since been on half-pay. – Goode and Lawrence.

 DE LISLE. 

passed his examination 23 May, 1837; served for some time as Mate, in the Mediterranean, of the and  steam-vessels, Capts. John Richardson and John Duffill; obtained his commission 19 July, 1844; was appointed Additional-Lieutenant, soon afterwards, of the 50, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore John Brett Purvis, on the Brazilian station; and, since 21 Jan. 1845, has been employed in the Pacific, as Lieutenant of the  16, Capt. Cospatrick Baillie Hamilton.

 DELMÉ. 

entered the Navy, 2 May, 1809, as Sec.-cl. Boy, on board the 74, Capts. Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge and John Halliday, in which he accompanied the ensuing expedition to the Walcheren. In Feb. 1811, being then on the Mediterranean station, he followed Capt. Halliday, as Midshipman, into the 74; soon after which he rejoined the Hon. A. K. Legge, whose flag was flying on board the  74, at the siege of Cadiz. During the three years immediately preceding his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 19 Sept. 1815, Mr. Delme further served, on the Mediterranean, American, and Home stations, in the and  frigates, both commanded by the Hon. Fleetwood B. R. Pellew, the  74, Capt. Rich. Raggett, and the 74, Capt. Sir Arch. Dickson. His subsequent appointments appear to have been – for a few months in 1816, to the 40, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, under whom he served at the bombardment of Algiers – 30 March,