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FOWELL—FOWKE—FOWLER. Chinese of the town of Chapoo. He soon afterwards removed to the 16, Capt. Hon. Geo. Fowler Hastings – and was next appointed, 20 June, 1845, to the 26, commanded at Cork by Capt. John Balfour Maxwell – 13 June, 1846, as Additional, to the  steam-frigate, Capt. Woodford John Williams, attached to the Channel squadron – and, 10 July, 1846, to the, Capt. John Bettinson Cragg, also on the Home station.

 FOWELL. 

, born 5 June, 1803, at Black Hall, is third son of the late Rev. John Digby Fowell, Rector of Torbrian, in Devon, by Sarah, second daughter and co-heir of Peter Knowling, Esq., of Washboume House, in the parish of Harburton, co. Devon.

This officer entered the Navy 26 March, 1819; served, as Midshipman of the schooner, in action with pirates in the West Indies; and was Mate of the  at the capture of the Calero slaver. Obtaining his first commission 12 Aug. 1834, he afterwards joined – 21 Nov. 1834, the 52, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Cockburn in North America and the West Indies – 14 Feb. 1835, the 18. Capt. Wm. Price Hamilton, on the same station – 15 July, 1836, the 36, Capt. Dan. Pring, off Lisbon – and 17 Aug. 1838, as First-Lieutenant, the 20, Capt. Williams Sandom, on the lakes of Canada. By the latter officer Mr. Fowell (who on the occasion was wounded) appears to have been commended in the highest terms for his gallantry, zeal, and activity in repelling, conjointly with the troops, a rebellious attack made on the town of Prescott, and on the British territory in its vicinity, 13 Nov. 1838. Ae a reward for his conduct, he was invested with the rank of Commander, 4 July, 1839; and next appointed, 3 April, 1843, to the, on Lake Erie. Since 25 July following he has been in successive command of the and  steamers on the Canadian lakes.

Commander Fowell married, 29 May, 1841, Theana, daughter of John Holland, Esq., of Clapham Common, co. Surrey.

 FOWKE. 

entered the Navy, 3 March, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capt. Fras. Pender, with whom, and with Capt. Thos. Geo. Shortland, he afterwards served for two years and a half in the 98, on the Mediterranean station. In April, 1809, he became Midshipman of the 98, bearing the flag off Lisbon of Hon. Geo. Cranfleld Berkeley; and in 1812-14 he joined the 38, Capt. Sir Petar Parker,  74, Capt. Tristram Robt. Ricketts, and 16, Capt. Dan. Pring. On 11 Sept. 1814, after a series of very active operations against the enemy on Lake Champlain, the latter vessel, in common with others composing a squadron under the orders of Commodore Downie, was there taken beneath the hostile batteries of Plattsburgh by a greatly superior force commanded by Commodore Macdonough, to whose concentrated attack, however, she did not surrender until she had sustained a loss of 10 men killed and 14 wounded, and not until some time after all her consorts had been captured. Mr. Fowke, who was officially recommended by Capt. Pring for the assistance he had afforded him on that occasion, was subsequently employed as a Supernumerary, during the summer of 1815, in the 100, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Thornbrough at Portsmouth. Obtaining his Commission 8 Aug. 1816, he next served, from 22 Oct. 1828, until 1831, in the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the and  74’s, both commanded by Capt. Hugh Pigot. He further joined, 4 April, 1844, the 80, Capt. Peter Fisher, guard-ship at Sheerness; and on 23 Sept. following he removed to the  72, guard-ship at Chatham, where he is still serving. - Messrs. Stilwell.

 FOWKE. 

is son of Geo. Fowke, Esq., Rear-Admiral of the Red, of Sible Hedingham, who died in 1832.

This officer entered the Navy 22 June, 1816; and passed his examination in 1822. He obtained a Lieutenancy 17 June, 1825, in the 46, Capt. Wm. Bowen Mends, on the South American station, whence he returned in Oct 1827; and was afterwards appointed, 14 Jan. 1830, and 20 May, 1832, to the 84, Capts. John Hayes and Geo. Bnrdett, and 74, Capt. Edw. Chetham, both in the Mediterranean. Since 12 Feb. 1835, on which date the latter ship was paid off Mr. Fowke has been on half-pay.

He married, in 1837, Margaretta, daughter of G. Nottidge, Esq., of Castle Hedingham, co. Essex.

 FOWLER. 

is third son of

This officer entered the Navy 3 Feb. 1833. Among other operations on the coast of China, he commanded, as Acting-Lieutenant of the, one of three boats belonging to that ship, and assisted by his great exertions in towing clear a flotilla of nearly 20 of the enemy’s fire-vessels, most of them chained in couples and some even three together, which had been expressly intended for the ’s destruction. Having been confirmed in the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 6 May, 1841, he afterwards, on leaving the, joined in that capacity, 8 Dec. 1842, the 78, Capt. Sir Jas. Stirling, on the Mediterranean station. Since 10 Nov. 1845, he has been serving, at Devonport and the Nore, in the 110, flag-ship of Sir John West, and  yacht, Commander Sir J. J. G. Bremer.

He married, 22 Sept. 1846, Catherine Elizabeth, youngest surviving daughter of the late Wm. Innes Pocock, Esq., Lieut. R.N. (1811), who died 13 March, 1836. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 FOWLER. 

, born 29 April, 1814, is eldest son of

This officer entered the Royal Naval College in Dec. 1826; and embarked, in Dec. 1828, on board the 18, Capts. Geo. Scott and Fras. Vere Cotton, employed off the coast of Africa. From 1830 until 1834 he officiated as Midshipman and Mate, on the North American and Mediterranean stations, of the 52, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Griffith Colpoys, 28, Capt. Lord Wm. Paget, 42, Capt. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas, and 28, Capt. Sir John Franklin. In the latter ship, during the revolutionary movements of 1832, he appears to have been present at Mesolonghi, and also at Patras, which city, in company with the French forces, he assisted in garrisoning. On 2 Jan. 1837, after a continued servitude in the Mediterranean, as Signal-Mate of the 52, Capt. David Price, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, and towards the close of the same year he sailed for the Cape of Good Hope in the  74, Capt. Hon. R. S. Dundas, bearing the flag of Hon. Geo. Elliot. On eventually proceeding to China, Mr. Fowler assisted at the capture, in 1841, of Chuenpee and Tycocktow, co-operated likewise in the attack upon the forts of the Boca Tigris, and commanded the ship’s pinnace in the first advance up the Canton River, where all the forts and batteries as high as Howqua’s Folly were captured and destroyed. His next appointments were – 22 Feb. 1842, to the 84, flag-ship of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, in the Mediterranean – 7 Nov. 1845, to the 120, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Chas. Ogle – and 30 April, 1846, to the 110, as Flag-Lieutenant,