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EMERTON—EMERY—ENGLISH—ENTWISLE. approbation of the Admiralty and the thanks of the Committee at Lloyd’s, and been rewarded with a medal from the Royal National Shipwreck Institution. In acknowledgment of the important assistance afforded by him to a dismasted Dutch man-of-war off Alderney, 13 Jan. 1844, the King of the Netherlands has also presented this officer with a valuable piece of plate.

 EMERTON. 

was born 10 May, 1776, in Middlesex, and died, 9 June, 1846, at Stratford-le-Bow.

This officer (who, when Mate of a West Indiaman, in the preceding spring, had served as a Volunteer under Lieut. Groves, of H.M.S., against the Charibs in the Island of St. Vincent, and had been engaged in 16 different attacks on the enemy’s stockades) entered the Navy, 28 July, 1795, as A.B., on board the 50, Capts. Maurice Delgamo and Thos. Boulden Thompson; under the latter of whom – after witnessing the capture of the Dutch frigate Argo, and participating, as Midshipman, in the attack upon Tenerife and in the battle of the Nile – he was taken, 18 Aug. 1798, by the French 74-gun ship Généreux, at the end of a close and bloody conflict of six hours, in which the, besides being totally dismasted, and otherwise fearfully shattered, sustained a loss, out of 282 men, of 35 killed and 57 wounded, and the enemy, whose force originally consisted of 936 men, of 100 killed and 188 wounded. On his restoration to liberty, in Nov. following, Mr. Emerton joined the 74, bearing the flag of Sir Horatio Nelson; and while in that ship he appears to have been very actively employed off the coast of Italy, where he served with the boats at the capture, in Leghorn Roads, of two polacres, mounting 16 and 18 guns, and assisted in removing the court and treasure from Naples to Palermo. After an intermediate attachment of fifteen months to the 74, Capt. Henry D’Esterre Darby, he became Master’s Mate, in Sept. 1800, of the  74, in which ship, commanded by his former Captain, then Sir T. B. Thompson, to whom succeeded Capt. Thos. Bertie, he took part, and was severely wounded, in the battle off Copenhagen, 2 April, 1801. When subsequently at Jamaica, Mr. Emerton was appointed, 16 May, 1802, Acting-Lieutenant of the 74, Capt. Robt. Cuthbert, on returning with whom to England he was officially promoted 9 July following. His succeeding appointments, we find, were – 15 April, 1803, to the 64, Capt. J. Seater, off Harwich – 12 Nov. 1804, as First-Lieutenant, to the  18, Capt. Sam. Jackson, in which he contributed to the capture, near Scarborough, of a smuggler and two French privateers, the and, 12 April, 1805 – 24 Sept. 1806, to the  74, Capt. Geo. Eyre, employed at the blockade of Cadiz, Toulon, and Corfu – in July, 1809, to the 74, Capt. Sir Fras. Laforey, for passage home – and, 8 June, 1810, to the, successive flag-ship in the river Thames of Rear-Admirals Wm. Albany Otway, Sir Chas. Hamilton, and Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge. While in the latter vessel, he jury-rigged, and took to Northfleet, the of 120 guns; and he was also very zealous in his endeavours to suppress the shameful extortions of the crimps. Having been on half-pay since Jan. 1815, he was at length, on 24 April, 1837, admitted to the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital. He accepted the rank of Retired Commander 30 July, 1840,

During his servitude as Midshipman, Commander Emerton was often employed on extra-official or dockyard duty; and when the intelligence of his having been wounded at Copenhagen reached England, the Patriotic Society rewarded him with a gratuity of 30l. He appears after the peace to have presented the Admiralty with two codes of signals. He married 26 June, 1816; and died a widower with two sons and three daughters. – Goode and Lawrence.

 EMERY. 

entered the Navy 4 Nov. 1808; passed his examination in 1817; and obtained his commission 26 March, 1827. His appointments have since been – 8 Sept. 1828, to the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye – 24 Sept. 1832, and 25 April, 1837, as First-Lieutenant, to the 18, and  surveying-vessel, Capts. Wm. Sidney Smith and John Clements Wickham, employed on particular service – and 31 Dec. 1842, and 27 March, 1844, to the and  surveying steamers, both commanded, on the coast of Ireland, by Capt. Geo. Alex. Frazer, in the latter of which he is at present serving, in the same capacity. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 ENGLISH. 

was born 2 Dec. 1793j at Fareham, co. Hants, and died 10 Oct. 1846.

This officer entered the Navy, 20 March, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the, Capt. John Wainwright, flag-ship at Spithead of Admiral Geo. Montagu. In Feb. 1805, he joined the 74, Capt. Chas. Boyles, with whom, as Midshipman of the 98, we subsequently find him enacting a part in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, 22 July, 1805. In the course of the following year he became successively attached to the and  64’s, bearing the flag of Admiral Chas. Stirling; and, while in the latter ship, he assisted at the capture of Monte Video in Feb. 1807. As Master’s Mate, next, of 38, and  18, Capts. Jas. Carthew and Geo. Pringle, Mr. English served at the reduction of the French West India islands, in the years 1809-10. After a further employment of 16 months in the 74, flag-ship of Sir Fras. Laforey in the Leeward Islands, he was at length, having passed his examination nearly two years, promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated 21 March, 1812. His appointments, in the latter capacity, appear to have been – 5 Jan. 1813, to the 74, Capt. Chas. Dashwood, employed off the Scheldt – 6 Aug. 1814, to the 36, Capt. Robt. Preston, on the Home station – 10 June, 1819, and 9 Dec. 1822, as Senior Lieutenant, to the 20, and  42, Capts. Henry Forbes, Robt. Tait, and Gardiner Henry Guion, on the Mediterranean station, where he commanded the boats of the latter ship and of the 18, in a successful attack on some pirate vessels, near the Morea, in 1824 and, 27 March, 1826, to the command of the  12, in North America. On 17 April, 1827, he was promoted to his present rank in the 18, which sloop he continued to command, on the station last mentioned, until 22 March, 1829. He has not been since employed.

Commander English married, 11 Oct. 1834, Jemima Georgina, only daughter of the late Jas. Carden, Esq., of Bedford Square, London.

 ENTWISLE. 

is second son of John Entwisle, Esq., of Foxholes, Rochdale, Lancashire, by Ellen, daughter of Hugh Lyle, Esq., of Coleraine; brother of the late John Entwisle, Esq., M.P. for Rochdale, and of Robt. Entwisle, Esq., Lieut.-Colonel of the Lancashire Militia; and brother-in-law of Robt. Peel, Esq., of Manchester, first-cousin of the Right Hon. Sir Robt. Peel, Bart., M.P.

This officer entered the Navy, 7 May, 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 38, Capts. John Cooke, Henry Rich. Glynn, Alex. Campbell, and John Wm. Spranger, on the Home station. While in that frigate, besides being much employed in the conveyance of royal and diplomatic personages, he assisted, as Midshipman, at the capture of