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DICK—DICKEN—DICKENS. Berners, on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations. We subsequently find him appointed – 17 Aug. 1831, to the 120, Capts. Wm. Jas. Hope Johnstone and Peter Rainier – 21 Oct. 1832, to the 46, Capt. Nicholas Lockyer, from which ship he invalided in consequence of a severe fracture of the leg, 9 Sept. 1833 – 19 July, 1834, to the  28, Capt. Octavius Vernon Harcourt – 4 July, 1835, to the  50, bearing the flag of Sir Graham Eden Hamond – 12 Oct. 1835, to the  46, Commodore Fras. Mason – 29 March, 1838, as Senior Lieutenant, to the 28, Capt. Robt. Lambert Baynes – 13 May, 1839, to the 78, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave – 1 Nov. 1839, to the 120, as Acting Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Robt. Waller Otway, Commander-in-Chief at the Nore – and, 1 Oct. 1840, to the 120, bearing the Flag of Sir John Ommanney. In those ships, Mr. Dick served on the Home, Lisbon, South American, North America and West India, and Mediterranean stations. He attained his present rank 23 Nov. 1841; and since 1 July, 1845, has been employed as an Inspecting Commander in the Coast Guard.

Commander Dick married, 7 Dec. 1843, Harriet, only daughter of the Rev. Chas. Baker, Vicar of Tilmanstone, co. Kent, sister of, and niece of Vice-Admiral the late , by whom he has issue – Goode and Lawrence.

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entered the Navy, 21 Jan. 1793, as Midshipman, on board frigate, Capt. John Nicholson Inglefield; and, after assisting at the reduction of Corsica, removed, in June, 1794, to the  74, Capts. Robt. Mann and Davidge Gould, under the latter of whom we find him present in Hotham’s actions of 14 March and 13 July, 1795. In Sept. following he rejoined Captain, then Rear-Admiral, Mann, on board the 98, also in the Mediterranean, where he continued until Dec. 1796; from which period he afterwards served, until 1799, in the  64, and  74, flag-ships in the North Sea of Vice-Admiral Rich. Onslow; under whom, in the, he bore a part in the battle off Camperdown, 11 Oct. 1797. On 11 March, 1799, Mr. Dick was promoted to a Lieutenancy in the 98, Capt. Thos. Baker; subsequently to which he joined, 11 Oct. following, the 44 Capt. Sir Chas. Hamilton, and witnessed the capture, 5 April, 1800, of the island of Goree. While on the African station, he assumed command, on the night of 3 Jan. 1801, of five boats, manned with, for the purpose of surprising a corvette of 18 guns, and an armed schooner, anchored within the bar off Senegal. After a desperate struggle of 20 minutes, in which 11 men were killed, 18 wounded, and two boats sunk, Lieut. Dick and his party gallantly carried the corvette, Le Sénégal, which they eventually destroyed under a heavy fire of grape and musketry from the batteries. With intermissions, the subject of this sketch continued to serve under Sir Chas. Hamilton in the 74,  98, and  80, on the Channel and Cadiz stations, until July, 1810. On being promoted to the rank of Commander 21 Oct. following, he joined the 28, bearing the flag of the same officer, and afterwards of the Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge, in the River Thames, where he remained until posted 7 June, 1814. He accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.

Capt. Dick married, 20 June, 1820, Miss Katherine Martyr. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

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entered the Navy, 1 June, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Sam. Jackson, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Rich. Goodwin Keats, in which he witnessed the ensuing embarkation from Nyeborg of the Marquis de la Romana and his patriot army – was frozen up a whole winter at Gottenborg – and assisted at the siege of Flushing in Aug. 1809. After an attachment of four months to the 74, guard-ship at Portsmouth, he removed, in March, 1810, to the  74, Capt. Thos. Rogers, on the Lisbon station. In Aug. following he rejoined Sir R. G. Keats, as Midshipman, in the 74; from which ship, after intermediately serving with the flotilla at the siege of Cadiz, he followed the same officer, in July, 1811, into the  110, on the Mediterranean station; where; during a subsequent employment of two years in the  36, Capt. Rich. Buck, he co-operated much with the patriots on the coast of Catalonia. Mr. Dicken, whom we next find officiating as Admiralty Midshipman and Master’s Mate of the 40, Capt. Sam. Geo. Pechell, and of the 74, and  50, flag-ships of his patron. Sir R. G. Keats, obtained his commission 7 March, 1815. His appointments have since been – 14 Sept. 1815, to the 16, Capt. John Cookesley, off Newfoundland – 13 Sept. 1816, to the  46, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres, in the Channel – 31 Jan; 1822, to the Coast Blockade, in which he served, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the 50, and  74, both commanded by Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, until 1825 – and, 11 Jan. 1830, 18 July, 1843, and 8 April, 1845, to the command of the, , and packets, on the Falmouth station, in the last-mentioned of which he is at present employed.

Lieut. Dicken married, in June, 1833, Emily, youngest daughter of Henry Williams, Esq., of Falmouth, by whom he has issue. - – Joseph Woodhead.

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, born 10 Feb. 1788, is son of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Sam. Dickens, Col.-Commandant, Royal Engineers.

This officer entered the Navy, 5 Aug. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, employed in the Mediterranean; where, and on the Home station, he afterwards, until April, 1806, served; part of the time as Midshipman, on board the and  74’s, both commanded by Capt. Sam. Hood, 24, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, 18, Capt. Edm. Heywood, 36, Capt. Lord W. Stuart, and  110, flag-ship of Earl St. Vincent. He then, as Acting-Lieutenant of the 98, Capt. Geo. Losack, proceeded to the West Indies, where he was confirmed by commission dated 4 Aug. 1806. In Oct. 1807, Mr. Dickens joined the 18, commanded off the coast of Portugal by Capt. G. A. Creyke; after which he appears to have been borne, from Feb. 1809, to Feb. 1812, on the books of the  64, and  80, as Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admirals Sir Alex. Ball and Chas. Boyles. During that period he held the acting command, from May to Sept. 1809, of the 18, in the Adriatic, and, for some time, in 1811, of the  sloop, and  frigate, in the latter of which he conducted for several weeks the blockade of Corfu in face of a very superior force. His next appointment was, on 8 May, 1813, to the 98, Capt. Robt. Plampin, with whom he remained until appointed by Sir_ Edw. Pellew to the command, 24 Feb. 1814, of the sloop. Commander Dickens, whose promotion obtained official sanction 5 April following. Invalided home on 17 Dec. in the same year; and has since been on half-pay.

He married, 9 Sept. 1819, Isabella, second daughter of Benj. Craven, Esq., of Colchester, and has issue five sons and one daughter. – Hallett and Robinson.

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passed his examination 7 Feb. 1843; and served, as Mate, on the Home and Mediterranean stations, in the 120,