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GOUGH—GOULD—GOULLET. – 18 April, 1826, as First, the 18, Capt. John Windham Dalling, in the Mediterranean – and, 6 April, 1827, in a similar capacity, the  46, bearing the flag in North America of Sir Chas. Ogle. He was promoted by the latter officer to the rank of Commander in the same ship, in consequence of a death vacancy, 2 March, 1828, and in that capacity he continued to serve with him until paid off, on the return of the to England, 26 July, 1830. Capt. Gostling, whose next appointment was, 25 June, 1841, to the 18, on the West India station, was advanced to his present rank on 23 of the following Nov. Since March, 1842, when he was superseded in the, he has been unemployed. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 GOUGH. 

passed his examination 15 April, 1844; and after an intermediate servitude as Mate, on the Home and Cape of Good Hope stations, in the gunnery-ship, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, and 50, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres, was made Lieutenant, 18 April, 1846, into the 26, Capt. Christopher Wyvill, also at the Cape. Since 19 Dec. 1846 he has been employed in the East Indies on board the 18, Capt. John Balfour Maxwell.

 GOULD, G.C.B.

was born in 1758, at Bridgewater, co. Somerset, and died, 23 April, 1847, at Hawkshead, Herts. He was son of Rich. Gould, Esq., of Sharpham Park, in the same shire; and nephew of Sir Henry Gould, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas.

This officer entered the Navy, in May, 1772, as a Volunteer, on board the, Capt. Stott, stationed in the Mediterranean, where, and on the coast of North America, he afterwards served as Midshipman, until the date of his first promotion, 7 May, 1779, in the , Capt. Wilkinson, and , Capt. Hyde Parker. During an attachment of four years to the latter ship Mr. Gould took an active part in the earlier operations of the American war, and was much engaged in attacking the enemy’s batteries, cutting out their vessels, and contesting, not without loss, with their boats up the North River. He then joined the, , and , the two former commanded by Capt. Thos. Dumaresq, and the latter by Capt. Balfour, under whom he fought in the van division on the memorable 12 April, 1782. On 13 of the following June, after having further served as First of the, Capt. Sir Chas. Douglas, he was promoted to the command of the sloop, on leaving which vessel he successively joined, on the Home and Mediterranean stations, the  18, and, another sloop-of-war. The, during 13 months that she was commanded by Capt. Gould, appears to have won considerable reputation as an anti-smuggler. Acquiring Post-rank 25 March, 1789, the subject of this sketch, who had been on half-pay for a period of four years, immediately obtained command of the frigate, on the West India station. He subsequently commanded the at the reduction of Corsica in 1794; the  74, in the two actions of 14 March and 13 July, 1795, on the former of which occasions he came into close and severe contact with the Censeur 74 and Ça Ira 80, whose fire killed 9, and wounded 17 of his men; and the  74, at the bombardment of Cadiz, the battle of the Nile, and the blockade of Malta and Genoa. The latter ship being paid off on her return home with convoy towards the close of 1800, after having witnessed the capture of a French squadron under Rear-Admiral Perrée, Capt. Gould, by whom she had been commanded seven years, was next, in the spring of 1801, appointed to the 74, employed on the Home and West India stations. He went on half-pay in 1802, and, with the exception of a brief command, in 1803-4, of the 98, attached to the fleet in the Channel, which his health obliged him to resign, did not again go afloat. He was created a Rear-Admiral 2 Oct. 1807; a Vice-Admiral 31 July, 1810; and a full Admiral 27 May, 1825. He was honoured with a medal for his valour at the Nile; and on 7 June, 1815, and 24 Jan. 1833, he was successively invested with the dignity of a K.C.B. and G.C.B. He obtained the Good-Service Pension 28 Aug. 1840.

Sir Davidge Gould, who was the last of the Nile Captains, died Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom. He married, in 1803, Harriet, eldest daughter of the late Archdeacon Willes, son of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and nephew of the Lord Chief Justice Sir John Willes. – J. Hinxman.

 GOULD. 

was born 4 Sept. 1790.

This officer entered the Navy, 31 March, 1805, as First-cl. Vol., on board the 40, Capts. Hon. Chas. Paget and Edw. Durnford King, from which frigate, after assisting at the siege and evacuation of the strong fortress of Gaeta, he removed, in Aug. 1806, to the 38, Capt. John Stewart. Joining soon afterwards the 14, Lieut.-Commander John Codd, he proceeded to the West Indies, where he served at the capture of Marie-galante in March, 1808, and commanded one of the boats of a squadron in an unsuccessful attempt to cut out a French corvette moored to the shore at St. Pierre’s, Martinique. After contributing, in the 98, to the reduction of the latter island, Mr. Gould rejoined Lieut. Codd in the, and he afterwards served with him in the 18, on the Plymouth station, until transferred, in Jan. 1811, to the , Capt. John Parish, also employed on Home duty. From Dec. 1814 until 11 Feb. 1815 he appears to have been confined as a patient to Haslar Hospital. He was promoted on the latter date to the rank of Lieutenant, and, on 25 Nov. 1834, was appointed to the Coast Guard. He left that service in the early part of 1836, but has been again emploved in it since 21 Nov. 1839.

Lieut. Gould served at Salisbury as a Special Constable during the riots of 1830, and was strongly recommended to Government for the active part he took in their suppression.

 GOULLET. 

, born in 1792, at Sowerby in Yorkshire, is son of the late Peter Goullet, Esq. of Heavitree, co. Devon. His grandfather was a Magistrate for co. York.

This officer entered the Navy, 5 June, 1805 as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 80, Capt. afterwards Rear-Admiral, Sir Rich. John Strachan; under whom, in the course of the same year, he joined, as Midshipman, in Cornwallis’ pursuit of the French fleet into Brest, and contributed to the capture of the four French line-of-battle ships which had effected their escape from Trafalgar. He next in 1809, when under the flag of Hon. Robt. Stopford, witnessed the destruction of three of the enemy’s frigates near Sable d’Olonne, and also of the shipping in Basque Roads. The being then ordered to re-hoist the flag of Sir R J Strachan, for the purpose of attending the expedition to the Walcheren, Mr. Goullet accordinglv accompanied that officer to the river Scheldt, where he was intrusted with the command of No 70 gun boat. In April, 1810, he became Master’s’ Mate of the 36, Capt. Chas. Richardson stationed off Lisbon, and on there removing in Jan. 1811, to the 98, flag-ship of Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley, he appears to have been for some time employed in command of a boat up the river Tagus. On his return to England in the