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DUNDAS—DUNDONALD. of Haddington. He continued so to officiate until Jan. 1846, when that nobleman vacated his seat as President of the Board of Admiralty. His nomination to the C.B. took place, as a reward for his services in China, 29 June, 1841. – Hallett and Robinson.

 DUNDAS. 

died 10 Nov. 1845.

This officer entered the Navy, 13 Oct. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, flag-ship afterwards of Vice-Admiral Thos. Macnamara Russell, on the North Sea station. He rejoined the former officer in May, 1806, as Midshipman, on board the 74, and continued to serve with him, in that ship, and in the  74, one of the fleet employed in the expedition against Walcheren, until promoted to a Lieutenancy, 18 July, 1810, in the  74, Capt. Thos. Boys. His next appointments were – 22 Feb. 1813, to the 14, Capt. John Skekel, in which he suffered shipwreck, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 27 Sept. following – and, in Aug. 1814, to the  38, Capt. Archd. Duff, on the Irish station. He invalided 28 April, 1815; and was not afterwards employed. – Fred. Dufaur.

 DUNDAS. 

died in 1846.

This officer entered the Navy, 17 July, 1808, as Midshipman, on board the, Master-Commander Thos. Cook, with whom he visited the Mediterranean and the Brazils. While afterwards filling a Master’s-Mateship, from Nov. 1811 to Aug. 1815, in the 36, Capt. Wm. Mounsey, he witnessed the capture of the island of Ponza, and of the town of Via Reggio; and was present at the unsuccessful attack on Leghorn, as also at the occupation of Santa Maria, and of the enemy’s other forts in the Gulf of Spezia, and at the taking of Genoa. Independently of these services, we likewise find Mr. Dundas employed in the boats at the cutting out, 7 May, 1813, from under the tower and batteries of Orbitello, of a xebec mounting 2 6-pounders; and again, 4 Oct. following, at the capture, with a loss to the British of 12 men killed and wounded, of a large convoy, protected by the galling fire of two gun-vessels and several batteries, in the harbour of Marinelo. Proceeding, towards the close of 1815, to the East Indies, as Admiralty-Midshipman of the 16, Capt. Henry Forbes, Mr. Dundas (who, in the, had also served on the North American station) there became Acting-Lieutenant, 12 May, 1816, of the  36, Capt. John Clavell. After officiating for 13 months in that capacity, he returned to England on board the 74, Capt. Henry Chas. Pemberton. He was eventually promoted, from the 100, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Edw. Thornbrough, to the rank of Lieutenant, 20 Jan. 1818; but did not again go afloat. Lieut. Dundas was the senior officer of his rank on the list of 1818.

 DUNDONALD, G.C.B., Earl of, formerly Lord Cochrane. 

, born 14 Dec. 1775, is eldest son of Archibald, ninth Earl of Dundonald, by Anne, second daughter of Capt. Jas. Gilchrist, R.N. He is brother of Lieut-Col. Hon. Basil Cochrane, of the 36th Foot, who died in May, 1816 – of Hon. Wm. Erskine Cochrane, who served in the Peninsular war as Major of the 15th Hussars – and of Capt. Hon. Archibald Cochrane, R.N. (1806), who assisted at the capture of El Gamo and died 6 Aug. 1829. His first-cousin, Sir Thos. John Cochrane, was lately Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies. His Lordship succeeded his father in the Earldom of Dundonald 1 July, 1831.

This officer was entered, 6 Dec. 1780, as Captain’s Servant, on the books of the bomb, commanded by his uncle, Capt. Hon. Alex. Inglis Cochrane, by whom his name was successively placed on those of the Carolina and Sophie. He did not, however, go to sea until 27 June, 1793, when he embarked as a Boy with Capt. Cochrane in the 28; previously to which, although he had not joined his regiment, he had been gazetted to a Captaincy in the 79th Foot. Removing with his relative, in the course of the same year, to the of 42 guns and 261 men, Lord Cochrane sailed for the coast of North America; where, as Acting-Lieutenant of that frigate, we find him, on 17 May 1795, contributing to the defeat, in company with the  28, of a French squadron of five sail, two of which, La Prévoyante of 24, and La Raison of 18 guns, were captured, after a close conflict of more than an hour’s duration, and a loss to the  of 8 men killed and 9 wounded. His Lordship, whose confirmation to the took place 24 May, 1796, subsequently joined the  64, Capt. Roddam Home,  74, bearing the flag of Admiral Vandeput,  again, Capt. Cochrane, and, , and , flag-ships in the Mediterranean of Lord Keith. On 21 Dec. 1799, having taken command, with Lieut. Wm. Bainbridge, of the boats of the and  frigate, he was despatched from Gibraltar Bay for the purpose of affording assistance to the  cutter, then surrounded off Cabritta Point by several of the enemy’s privateers and gun-boats, some of the latter of which he pursued and boarded with the utmost gallantry. On the capture, 18 Feb. 1800, of the French 74-gun ship Le Généreux, Lord Cochrane was appointed her Acting-Captain, and he appears to have conveyed her from Malta to under circumstances of great difficulty. Being promoted to the command, 28 March following, of the sloop, of 14 guns and 54 men, he commenced a series of operations against the enemy, unparalleled for activity and success, becoming the personal captor, within the short space of 14 months, of 33 vessels, carrying altogether 128 guns and 533 men, besides assisting at the capture of many others. To particularize every dashing exploit performed by Lord Cochrane during his continuance in the would lead us far beyond our limits, but there is one feat, from its transcendent heroism, that we cannot pass over in silence. On 6 May, 1801, being off Barcelona, the fell in with the Spanish frigate El Gamo, of 32 heavy guns and 319 men, one of several vessels that had been sent to effect his capture. Undaunted by a force so comparatively enormous, her gallant commander instantly commenced a close action, and, after a cannonade of 45 minutes, ran alongside his lofty antagonist, whom, at the head of only 40 men, he impetuously boarded and carried. The British vessel, whose force, as we have seen, consisted originally of not more than 54 men, sustained a loss on the occasion of 3 killed and 8 wounded, and the Gamo (which, although immediately afterwards attacked by a division of gun-boats, was ultimately conducted in safety to Minorca) of 15 killed and 41 wounded. On 3 July following, however, the was herself captured by a French squadron under M. Linois, but not until she had exhausted every means of escape, and had behaved in a manner so conspicuous, that, on Lord Cochrane’s presenting his sword to the Captain of the 74-gun ship 'Dessaix', it was returned to him with the complimentary reqest that he would continue to wear what he had so nobly used. On 6 of the same month it was his fortune to be present on board the French squadron when attacked by Sir Jas. Saumarez in the Bay of Algeciras, but, being soon afterwards exchanged, he returned to England, and on his arrival was presented, as a reward for his wonderful gallantry in the affair of the Gamo, with a Post-comission dated 8 Aug. 1801. From that period Lord Cochrane remained on half-pay until appointed, 5 Oct. 1303, to the 22, from which ship, after intermediately serving with great risk at the blockade of Boulogne, he removed, 3 Dec. 1804, to the  32. In the following March,