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GIFFARD—GIFFORD—GILBERT. capture of that city, again eliciting the best thanks of the same officer for his conduct at the destruction of the whole line of defences extending about two miles from the British factory. On 8 June, 1841, Capt. Giffard was in consequence rewarded with a Post-commission. Continuing, howeyer, to serve in the, he was further present in her in the ensuing operations of Aug. and Oct. against Amoy, Chusan, and Chinghae. At each of those places he was entrusted with the debarkation of the troops; and when at Amoy he was attached to the army during the whole period of its stay. In the performance of the duties which were thus imposed upon him Capt. Giffiird was quite indefatigable, and acquitted himself as much to the satisfaction of Sir Wm. Parker, the Naval Commander-in-Chief, as of the General. On every opportunity, indeed, his ardour and activity were eminently displayed. He left the in the early part of 1842; and, since 13 Oct. 1846, has been in command of the  steam-frigate, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Chas. Hotham on the coast of Africa.

Capt. Giffard married, 19 March, 1846, Ella Amelia, fourth daughter of the late Major-General Sir Benj. C. Stevenson, G.C.H., and niece of the Rev. Sir Henry Rivers, Bart. – J. Hinxman.

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died aboat the commencement of 1847.

This officer entered the Navy, 6 Aug. 1807, as Sec.-cl. Boy, on board the 98, Capt. Sir Chas. Hamilton, flag-ship afterwards in the Baltic and Mediterranean of Rear- Admirals Manley Dixon and Fras. Pickmore. In Dec. 1811, he became Midshipman of the, 110, Capt. Geo. Burlton, on the latter station, where, until his promotion, 6 July, 1814, he continued to serve, in the, Capt. Wm. Stewart, and  sloops, Capts. Geo. Canning, Rowland Mainwaring, and Thos. Forster, 110, flag-ship of Sir Rich. King, prize-brig, Capt. Cornish, and  26, Capt. Jas. Wemyss. From 3 Jan. to 31 May, 1815, he cruized on the Irish station in the 24, Capt. Watkin Owen Pell; after which he obtained an appointment in the Water Guard, 14 Dec. 1820, and was invested with the command, 16 Dec. 1825, of the  Revenue-cutter. From the date of his quitting the latter vessel Mr. Giffard remained, we believe, unemployed.

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entered the Navy, 25 April, 1780, as a Boy, on board the 74, Capts. Sir Geo. Collier and Hon. Wm. Cornwallis; and while in that ship was present, as Midshipman, at the relief of Gibraltar in 1781, the ensuing capture of the Spanish frigate, of 36 guns, also in Sir Sam. Hood’s action off St. Kitt’s, and in Rodney’s actions with the Comte de Grasse, 9 and 12 April, 1782. He next joined in succession the 74, Capt. Lee,  64, Capt. Henry Harwood,  sloop, Capt. Chas. Tyler, 100, flag-ship of Lord Howe, and  64, bearing the broad pendant in the East Indies of Commodore Hon. Wm. Cornwallis, by whom he was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 20 Oct. 1790, in the 28, Capt. Sir Rich. John Strachan, and afterwards removed to the and. Mr. Giffard, whose proximate appointments were, 14 Nov. 1793, and 12 July, 1794, to the 74, Capt. Robt. Calder, and 100, flag-ship of Earl Howe, was advanced, after participating under Sir Andw. Snape Douglas in Lord Bridport’s action, to the command, 1 Feb. 1796, of the sloop, for his conduct in which vessel, in safely escorting a large convoy into Lisbon, he received the thanks of the Board of Admiralty. Being made Post by Sir John Jervis into, of 32 guns, 19 Oct. 1796, Capt. Giffard, we find, was subsequently appointed – 29 Dec. 1796, to La 40, off Lisbon and Cadiz – 23 Sept. 1800, to the  38, off Cherbourg, where he took, 26 Jan. 1801, Le Quinola privateer, of 14 guns and 48 men – 23 Feb. 1801, to the  74, in which ship he was the instrument, early in the month of April, 1802, of suppressing a dangerous insurrection of the 8th West India Regt., then in garrison at Fort Shirley, Dominica – 23 April, 1803, to the  98, lying at Portsmouth – 7 June, 1803, to the  36, on the Cork station, whither he conveyed Lord Gardner – 8 Oct. 1805, to  64, in which ship he assisted at the defence of Gaeta – and, 27 Sept. 1806, to the  74, on the Mediterranean station. From 23 March, 1807, until his attainment of Flag-rank, 12 Aug. 1819, Capt. Giffard was next employed as Lieutenant-Governor of the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth. He became a Vice-Admiral 22 July, 1830, and a full Admiral 23 Nov. 1841.

Admiral Giffard married, 20 Nov. 1802, a daughter of the late Sir John Carter, Kt., of Portsmouth, and has, with other issue, a son, the present, and a daughter, married to

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(whose name had been previously borne for upwards of three years, as Captain’s Servant, on the books of the and, both commanded by Capt. Benj. Caldwell) entered the Navy, 1 Oct. 1783, as Midshipman, on board the , Capt. Wm. Bentinck, bearing the broad pendant on the Halifax station of Commodore Sir Chas. Douglas. Until the receipt of his first commission, 22 Oct. 1793, he served, latterly in the West Indies, Channel, and Mediterranean, on board the and, Capt. Sam. Hood, 74, Capt. Henry Harvey,  74, Capt. Rowland Cotton, and  98, flag-ship, during the occupation of Toulon, of Rear-Admiral John Gell. He then joined the 32, Capts. Jas. Macnamara and Wm. Haggitt; and on 7 Oct. 1795, was in company with the 74, when that ship was captured by a French squadron under M. Richery, from whom the  herself with difficulty effected her escape. As Lieutenant, Mr. Gifford’ s subsequent appointments were – to the 74, Capt. Jas. Vashon, and and  98’s, flag-ships of Rear-Admiral Chas. Cotton. Being properly qualified, by commission dated 7 May, 1802, he subsequently, after officiating for a few months as Acting-Captain of the frigate, assumed command, 8 May, 1804, 16 May, 1808, and 17 Feb. 1812, of the, , and  sloops, on the Channel and Baltic stations. He attained Post-rank 12 Aug. 1812; and on 1 Oct. 1846, became a Rear-Admiral. – Hallett and Robinson.

 GILBERT. 

, born in 1787, is fourth son of the late Rev. Edm. Gilbert, Vicar of Constantino, and Official of the Archdeaconry of Cornwall (grandson of Admiral Edm. Williams of Plymouth), by Anne, daughter of Henry Garnett, Esq., of Bristol; brother of Lieut. Henry Garnett Gilbert, R.N., who was lost at sea in H.M.S. in May, 1805, of Major-General Walter Raleigh Gilbert, Hon. E.I.Co.’s service, and of Capt. Fras. Yarde Gilbert, R.E.; and brother-in-law of Sir Walter Roberts, Bart., and of Lord Robt. Kerr. Commander Gilbert, who belongs to one of the oldest families in the co. of Devon, is a collateral descendant of the celebrated Sir Walter Raleigh and lineally derives from Sir Humphrey Gilbert, a seaman noted for his discoveries in the northern