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DUMARESQ—DUMBRECK—DUNBAR—DUNCAN. employed. Commander Dufty accepted his present rank 19 Oct. 1843.

He married 6 Feb. 1816, and has issue three children.

 DUINS. 

died 26 Sept. 1845.

This officer entered the Navy 4 March, 1808; passed his examination in 1821; and was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 19 Jan. 1828, in the 46, Capt. Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford, employed on a particular service. His next appointments were – 3 April, 1829, to the 78, Capts. John Ferris Devonshire and Sam. Pym, on the Mediterranean station – 17 April, 1832, to the Coast Guard, in which he served for about two years – and subsequently, for a brief period, to the 120.

He married, in May, 1836, Anne Mortimer, eldest daughter of the late Rev. J. Amyatt Chaundy, of Charlinch, near Bridgewater. – Pettet and Newton.

 DUMARESQ. 

was born, 28 Sept. 1808, at Jersey, where his father was the late King’s Attorney-General. His brother, Lieut. Don Philip Dumaresq, R.N., died on board H.M.S., of African fever, in 1844; and his cousin, Lieut. Philip Dumaresq, R.N., was killed in the, at Navarin. He is a cousin of the present

This officer entered the Royal Naval College 6 Sept. 1821; and embarked, 29 Aug. 1823, as a Volunteer, on board the 18, Capt. Thos. Prickett; under whom he was actively employed on boat service against the Ashantees, in 1823-4. Until he passed his examination, 19 July, 1828, he afterwards served, as Midshipman, on the Cape and South American stations, in the 42, Capt. T. Prickett,  18, Capt. Thos. Martin, 46, Capt. Wm. Bowen Mends, and 42, Commodore Wm. Skipsey. He then successively joined, as Mate, the 10, Capt. Stanhope,  50, Commodore Sir Thos. Staines, surveying-vessel, Capt. Rich. Copeland, steamer, Capt. Robt. Oliver, and, flag-ships of Sir Josias Rowley and Sir Philip Chas. Durham, steamer, Capt. Sidney Colpoys Dacres, and  again, bearing the flag of Sir P. Durham. During his attachment to those ships, Mr. Dumaresq appears to have been much employed in the Mediterranean, and also off the north coast of Spain, where, in the, he was particularly active during the civil war in 1838. He was at length promoted, on 10 Oct. in the latter year, to the rank of Lieutenant, and appointed, 8 Sept. 1839, to the 16, Capt. Wm. Tucker. As First-Lieutenant of that vessel he distinguished himself by his conduct in capturing two Spanish slavers up the river Niger; and on a later date he took by assault the island of Corisco, in face of an overwhelming force, and destroyed all the slave-factories there established. On that occasion his party, originally 40 in number, sustained a loss of 10 men killed and wounded. For these services Mr. Dumaresq, who paid the off as her Acting-Commander, was ultimately promoted, from the  120, flag-ship at Plymouth of Sir Graham Moore, to his present rank 21 March, 1842. He has been in command, since 12 Nov. 1846, of the cutter, at Portsmouth.

Commander Dumaresq married, 18 Jan. 1844, his cousin, Anna Susanna, second daughter of Philip Janvrin, Esq., of Jersey, and has issue one son. – J. Hinxman.

 DUMBRECK. 

was born in Nov. 1789, at Edinburgh.

This officer entered the Navy, in Nov. 1802, as Fst -cl. Vol., on board the 64, Capt. Chas. Rowley, bearing the flag off the Texel of Rear-Admiral Edw. Thornbrough. He removed, as Midshipman, in May, 1804, to the 74, Capt. Geo. Hope; and after participating in the battle of Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805, proceeded to the West Indies, in the 74, Capt. John Harvey. On his return from that station, in Nov. 1807, he rejoined Capt. Hope in the 74. Sailing afterwards for the coast of Spain in the 100, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez, he served in the boats at the embarkation of Sir John Moore’s army at Corunna, in Jan. 1809. He was confirmed, 27 Sept. 1810, to a Lieutenancy in the 74, Capts. John Surman Garden and Henry Raper, and while in that ship was much employed in command of her boats up the Tagus. Mr. Dumbreck, whose next appointment was, 6 Aug. 1811, to the Plover 26, Capt. Colin Campbell, invalided home from the coast of Africa in Aug. 1814. Since that period he has been on half-pay.

He married, first, 1 June, 1816, Miss Jane Inglis, of Lasswade, N.B., who was wrecked and drowned on her passage to Aberdeen, 21 Jan. 1819, leaving issue an only son; and, secondly, 15 May, 1820, Miss Margaret M‘Vicol, of Glenarchy, by whom, who died suddenly, 2 June, 1843, he had also issue a son. – Hallett and Robinson.

 DUNBAR. 

entered the Navy 2 Dec. 1832; passed his examination 1 May, 1839; and served for some time, as Mate, on board the steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Walter Grimston Bucknall Estcourt,  92, Capt. Robt. Maunsell, and 42, Capt. Sir Henry Martin Blackwood, chiefly on the Mediterranean station. He obtained his commission 3 July, 1844, and on the same day was appointed Additional-Lieutenant of the 72, flag-ship in the East Indies of Sir Thos. John Cochrane. Mr. Dunbar, since 29 March, 1845, has been employed on the same station in the 26, Capt. Geo. Rodney Mundy. During an expedition conducted, in July, 1846, by Sir Thos. Cochrane against the Sultan of Borneo, we find him commanding the pinnace belonging to the Iris, and assisting at the capture and destruction, on 8 of that month, of the enemy’s forts and batteries on the river Brune. On the ensuing ascent of a branch of the latter stream by a force under Capt. Mundy, and its debarkation, after struggling for many hours against an almost impenetrable navigation, at the village of Mallout, Mr. Dunbar, while the main body marched on to Damuan, in the hope of there capturing the Sultan’s person, was left with a party of blue-jackets to garrison the former place. While the British were afloat he had partial command of a flotilla of seven gun-boats, and was mentioned for the cheerful assistance he afforded on the occasion.

 DUNBAR. 

entered the Navy 6 June, 1834; passed his examination 7 June, 1841; and after officiating for a few months as Mate of the 84, Capt. Michael Seymour, and  92, Capt. Robt. Maunsell, on the Mediterranean station, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 13 June, 1842. From 13 of the following July, until paid off in 1846, he was further employed in North America and the West Indies, and off the coast of Africa, on board the 16, Capt. Reginald Yorke. He has been engaged on particular service, since 11 Dec. 1846, as First of the steam-sloop, Capt. Fras. Thos. Brown. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 DUNCAN. 

died 19 July, 1845.

This officer entered the Navy, 13 Aug. 1813, as Midshipman, on board the 38, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan; and after assisting at the capture of Port d’Anzo, and in the operations