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FAIRMAN—FAIRWEATHER—FALCON.  appointed First-Lieutenant, on the Newfoundland and Home stations – 11 June, 1808, of the 24, Capt. Arthur Lysaght – 20 Feb. 1811, of the  18, Capt. Chas. Kerr – and, 26 Aug. 1812, of the 10, Capts. Wm. Ramage and Thos. Smith, which vessel (having been superseded from her 4 Feb. 1815) he rejoined 4 Jan. 1816. Commander Fairless, who had been on half-pay since 21 April, 1817, accepted his present rank 10 April, 1843.

 FAIRMAN. 

entered the Navy 11 April, 1818; passed his examination in 1825; and obtained his first commission 4 Sept. 1829. He was subsequently appointed – 13 July, 1830, to the 18, Capt. Abraham Mills Hawkins, in the Mediterranean – 25 April, 1836, to the Coast Guard – 11 Sept. 1838, to the  26, Capt. Robt. Russell, on the South American station – and, 2 July, 1844, as First-Lieutenant, to the 50, Capt. Provo Wm. Parry Wallis. He returned home from the Mediterranean in 1845; was next selected, on 16 Jan. 1816, to fill the post of First-Lieutenant on board the 110, successive flag-ship on the Home station of Sir John West and Sir Gordon Bremer; and, on 9 Nov. 1846, assumed the rank of Commander. He has since been on half-pay.

 FAIRWEATHER. 

entered the Navy, 6 July, 1782, as A.B., on board the 14, Capt. John Young, on the Home station; served afterwards for five years in the West Indies as Quarter-Master of the  50, flag-ship of Admirals Gambier and Tnnes; was then successively appointed Midshipman of the  60, Capt. Rich. Rodney Bligh, and 100, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Vice- Admiral Hotham; and after a further servitude of two years on the latter station as Acting-Master of the  18, Commodore Sam. Hood Linzee, and 32, Capt. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, became Master’s Mate, and then Acting-Lieutenant, of the  36, commanded by the last-mentioned officer, and also by Capt. Pulling, who, in May, 1796, sent him home in charge of L’Aveille, a national cutter taken from the French on the coast of Ireland. Being confirmed, 8 June, 1797, into the, of 24 or 26 guns, Capts. Alex. Ruddach and Wm. Butterfield, he assisted in that vessel at the capture, 12 Aug. 1798, of Le Neptune French national ship, of 20 guns, having on board 270 troops, which did not surrender until after an obstinate conflict of an hour and fifty minutes, during which the enemy had upwards of 20 men killed and wounded, and the British not more than 6 men wounded. His able assistance and good conduct on the latter occasion, as indeed on all others, procured him a strong recommendation from his Captain, Butterfield, who declared him worthy of his warmest encomiums. With the exception of a short interval in 1802-3, Mr. Fairweather next served, from 26 Sept. 1799 until March, 1805, on board the 74, Capt. Hon. Michael De Courcy,  64, Capt. Geo. Lumsdaine, and 40, and  74, both commanded by Lord A. Beauclerk, and all employed on the Home station. He then officiated for three years as Agent for Transports afloat; and, on 11 July, 1808, was appointed to the charge of a Signal station in the island of Jersey. Mr. Fairweather, who has been on half-pay since 7 June, 1814, became a Retired Commander on the Junior List 26 Nov. 1830, and on the Senior 18 March, 1840.

 FALCON. 

entered the Navy, in 1794, as A.B., on board the, Capt. Wm. Geo. Fairfax, flag-ship in the Channel of Rear-Admiral Henry Harvey, but soon attained the rating of Midshipman, and accompanied the former officer into the and  74’s, the latter bearing the flag of Admiral Duncan, whom, after participating in the battle off Camperdown 11 Oct. 1797, he followed into the  74; during his attachment to which ship he appears to have been lent, for three months in 1798, as Acting-Lieutenant, to the  20, Capt. Henry Raper. In May and Sept. 1799 he successively joined, in the same capacity, the 18, and  frigate, Capts. John Acworth Ommanney and David Lloyd; and, on 15 May, 1800, he was confirmed into the armed-ship, Capt. Thos. Campbell. His subsequent appointments as Lieutenant were, on the West India, North America, and Lisbon stations – 23 Aug. 1800, to the 32 Capts. Jas. Bradby and Edw. Durnford King – 9 June, 1802, and 21 July, 1803, to the 40, and  50, flag-ships of Sir Andrew Mitchell – and, in 1806-8-9, to the  50,  98,  78, and  again, bearing each the flag of Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley. While in the Mr. Falcon assisted, under Capt. John Talbot, at the capture, 23 Feb. 1805, of La Ville de Milan French frigate, of 46 guns, and the simultaneous re-capture of her prize, the  32; and, when with Capt. Salusbury Pryce Humphreys in the, he was one of the officers sent to search the United States’ frigate Chesapeake for deserters, after that vessel had struck her colours, 22 March, 1807. On 8 March, 1811, while acting as Captain of the 38, he was made Commander into the  troop-ship. Attaining Post-rank 29 Oct. 1813, he soon afterwards joined the 50, and, on 14 March, 1814, obtained command of the, of 32 guns and 171 men. After a furious action off Madeira, in which, besides being much cut to pieces, she sustained a loss of 6 men killed and 13 wounded, the latter vessel, together with her consort, the, of 20 guns and 131 men, was unfortunately captured by the American ship Constitution, of 54 guns and 469 men, 20 Feb. 1815. Capt. Falcon consequently became a prisoner of war, but, peace soon restoring him to liberty, he returned home, and was afterwards appointed – 24 June, 1817, to the 26, in which vessel, in Oct. 1820, he brought from South America to England specie to the amount of nearly 700,000l. – 1 March, 1823, to the 50, lying at Chatham – 23 June, 1823, and 21 Aug. 1825, to the  76, and  74, flag-ships of Sir Geo. Eyre, on the South American station – and, 1 May, 1833, and 5 Sept. 1835, to the 110, and  104, bearing each the flag of Sir Wm. Hargood, Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth, where he continued until paid off, 30 April, 1836. Since 17 Feb. 1845 he has been employed as Captain of the yacht, and Superintendent of the Dockyard at Pembroke.

Capt. Falcon married, 7 Oct. 1834, Louisa, widow of the late Capt. Cursham, and daughter of the late Rich. Meyrick, Esq., of Runkton, co. Sussex, by whom he has issue. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 FALCON. 

entered the Navy 5 May, 1825; passed his examination in 1831; and was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 23 March, 1840, in the 18, Capt. Edw. Reeves Philip Mainwaring, on the South American station. He there removed, 25 Feb. 1841, to the 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Chas. Bayne Hodgson Ross, and from 29 April, 1843, until the receipt of his second promotal commission, bearing date 11 Jan. 1846, served in the East Indies on board the 36, Capt. Chas. Graham. His advancement to the rank of Commander was made a reward for his conduct in command of a breaching battery in an attack made upon a rebel New-Zealand chief named Kawiti; whose strongly-fortified pah, situated many miles inland, was stormed on the date last mentioned, after several days of labour and fatigue, and 