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GAMBIER—GAPE—GARDINER. Eden Hamond, lying in the river Thames, and from the following Sept. until the receipt of his first commission, dated 5 Sept. 1810, served, in the same capacity, and as Midshipman, Master’s Mate, and Acting-Lieutenant, in the Weymouth, Capt. John Draper, 64, Commodore Sir Home Popham,  64, Capt. Wm. Cuming, 38, Capt. Sir Geo. Ralph Collier, and and, flag-ships of Admirals Wm. Young and Hon. Sir Henry Edwin Stanhope. Of these ships, the assisted at the reduction of the Cape, Buenos Ayres, and Maldonado, in 1806, and the, besides contributing to the fall of Copenhagen, in Sept. 1807, effected the capture of Le Milan French national corvette, of 18 guns, off Ushant, 30 Oct. 1809. As Lieutenant, Mr. Gambier’s appointments, we find, were, to the 120, flag-ship of Lord Gambier,  38, Capt. Alex. Wilmot Schomberg, and 74, Capt. Robt. Rolles, on the Channel, Baltic, and Mediterranean stations. He assumed command, 30 Sept. 1812, of the sloop, and, being promoted to Post-rank, 6 June, 1814, was afterwards employed as Captain, from 25 April, 1815, to 19 Nov. 1818, of the  20, and, from 18 June, 1825, until July, 1826, of the  42. In Dec. 1820, Capt. Gambier also obtained an appointment in the Water Guard. While in the he was employed, under Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, in blockading the Maumusson passage until the surrender of Buonaparte, when he accompanied the to England, bringing with him several French officers, &c., belonging to the Emperor’s suite. He then sailed for the Mediterranean. In the Capt. Gambier conveyed to Vera Cruz Mr. Morier, H.M. Commissioner to the republic of Mexico, and at the same time afforded a passage to Sir Robt. Ker Porter, Consul-General at Columbia. He accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.

He married, 27 Oct. 1815, Caroline, fourth daughter of Major-General Gore Browne, Lieutenant Governor of Plymouth and Commandant of the western district. – Collier and Snee.

 GAMBIER. 

, born 21 Nov. 1803, at Lisbon, is second son of Sir Jas. Gambier, F.R.S., H.M. Consul-General in the Netherlands; grandson of the late Vice-Admiral Gambier, whose nephew, James, was the late Admiral Lord Gambier, G.C.B., and second-cousin of One of his brothers, Mark, is an officer in tie Army; and another, Ferdinand, served on board the  at the battle of Navarin.

This officer entered the Navy, 28 Feb. 1816, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 20, commanded by his relative, Capt. Robt. Gambier, on the Mediterranean station. In Dec. 1818 he became Midshipman for some months of the 76, flag-ship of Sir John Gore in the river Medway; after which we find him serving in South America and the East Indies, on board the  42, Capt. Hon. Robt, Cavendish Spencer,  24, Capt. Geo. Cornish Gambier, 50, Commodore Chas. Grant, and 26, Capt. Thos. Coe, of which latter vessel he became Acting-Lieutenant 1 April, 1823. Being officially promoted 22 Oct. following, he was appointed, 7 June, 1824, to the 46, Capt. Lord Byron, under whom he was employed in conveying the remains of the late King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands to Otaheite; and, 6 Oct. 1826, to the  84, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Codrington. After participating in the battle of Navarin, Mr. Gambier was presented by the latter officer with the extra commission placed at his disposal, dated 21 Oct. 1827. He obtained command, 2 Aug. 1845, of the 16, at the Capo of Good Hope; and, on 9 Nov. 1846, was advanced to the rank he now holds. He is at present on half-pay.

Capt. Gambier married, 18 Jan. 1838, Hester, only daughter of Thos. Butler, Esq., of Berry Lodge, Hants. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 GAPE. 

is the son of a clergyman and magistrate of St. Alban’s, co. Herts.

This officer entered the Navy, 2 Aug. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 50, Capt. Wm. Brown, on following whom, after an intermediate servitude on the West India station, into the 74, he bore a part in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, 22 July, 1805. On 21 Oct. following we find him present in the same ship, under Lieut. John Pilfold, at the battle of Trafalgar. In May, 1806, he became Midshipman of the 36, Capt. Wm. Prowse; subsequently to which he joined the 54, and  32, both commanded by Capt. Chas. Marsh Schomberg, and 32, Capt, Wm. Hoste. While in the latter frigate Mr. Gape, on 12 May, 1808, shared in a very spirited engagement of many hours with several batteries in the Bay of Rosas, in an attempt to cut out the French frigate-built 800 ton store-ship Balline, mounting from 26 to 30 guns, with a crew of 150 men. He also, on 27 Aug. 1809, served with a detachment under Lieut. C. G. R. Phillott at the storming of the strong fort of Cortelazzo, near Trieste, the capture of which occasioned the simultaneous surrender, within sight of the Italian squadron off Venice, of six of the enemy’s gun-boats and a large convoy of merchant trabacolos anchored for protection under its walls. On 29 June, 1810, Mr. Gape further landed, near the town of Groa, and, after defeating a large body of French troops, assisted at the capture and destruction of a convoy of 25 vessels. He was ultimately promoted to a Lieutenancy, 19 March, 1811, in the 74, Capt. Aiskew Paffard Hollis, with whom he continued to serve in the Mediterranean until 1812; between which period and his promotion to the rank of Commander, 16 Feb. 1814, he officiated, as Flag-Lieutenant, in the, , and , to Rear-Admiral Wm. Brown, on the Guernsey and Jamaica stations. He afterwards, from 18 Feb. 1814, to 15 Dec. 1815, and from 24 April, 1830, to 11 March, 1834, commanded the and  sloops, on the West India and Mediterranean stations. Capt. Gape, whose next appointment was to an Inspecting Commandership, 4 Oct. 1837, in the Coast Guard, acquired his present rank 23 Nov. 1841. He has not since been employed. – J. Hinxman.

 GARDINER. 

is youngest son of Sam. Gardiner, Esq., of Coombe Lodge, co. Oxford.

This officer entered the Royal Naval College in May, 1808, and embarked, 23 June, 1810, as a Volunteer, on board the 36, Capt. Henry Vansittart, in which ship he proceeded to the Mediterranean with Rear-Admiral Thos. Fras. Fremantle. On next joining the, of 44 guns and 271 men, he contributed, 20 May, 1811 (while cruizing off Madagascar in company with the and , frigates nearly equal in force to the , and 18-gun brig ), to the capture – after a long and trying action with the French 40-gun frigates Renomée, Clorinde, and Nériéde, in which the  had 7 men killed and 24 wounded – of the Renomée. On 25 of the same month he was further present at the surrender of the Nériéde, and of the settlement of Tamatave; and in the following summer he co-operated in the reduction of the island of Java. Proceeding subsequently to the Pacific, the, whose force then consisted of 46 guns and 300 men, succeeded, in company with the 18-gun sloop , in effecting the capture, , off Valparaiso, of the American frigate Essex, of 46 guns and 265 men, who only struck her colours at the close of a warm action of two hours, in which the lost 4 men killed and 7 wounded, and the enemy 24 killed and 45 wounded. Mr. Gardiner (whose conduct on the occasion was the cause of his being officially recommended by his Captain to the notice of the 