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GRAHAM.  36, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise, he there became Midshipman of the 74, flag-ship of Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, under whom he continued until April, 1815. From that period until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 5 Dec. 1822, he was successively employed, part of the time as Master’s Mate, on the Gibraltar, Lisbon, Portsmouth, St. Helena, and Jamaica stations, in the 26, Capt. Fras. Erskine Loch, again, Capt. W; F. Wise,  74, Capt. Thos. Alexander, 36, Capt. Nathaniel Day Cochrane,  and  sloops, both commanded by Capt. Geo. Fred. Rich, again, Capt. Alexander,  brig, Capt. Wilson Braddyll Bigland, and  4, Lieut.-Commander Geo. Jackson. He then joined the 42, Capt. Fras. Newcombe, also in the West Indies, whence he returned home in the 74, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, and was paid off 10 June, 1825. Soon after this, in consequence of the weakened circulation produced by the great variety of climate under which Lieut. Graeme had served, and the exposure to which he had been subjected, he had the misfortune, during a moderately frosty day, to lose, from the effects of cold, the last two joints of the four fingers of his left hand; and, indeed, slight exposure since that time has often caused alarming numbness and discoloration of his ears and nose. Being thus prevented from energetically pursuing his profession, he remained unemployed until 13 Jan. 1840, when he was appointed to the 104, guard-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Fras. Erskine Loch. He was promoted, shortly after his removal to the First-Lieutenancy of the 110, to the rank he now holds in honour of Her Majesty’s visit to that ship when on the eve of sailing from Spithead with the flag of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, by commission dated 7 March, 1842; since which period he has been on half-pay.

Commander Graeme married, in 1826, Eleanora, daughter of John Johnson, Esq., of Liverpool.

 GRAHAM, C.B.

entered the Navy, 9 June, 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. John Erskine Douglas, stationed in the North Sea, whence, in 1812, he accompanied the same officer to the Mediterranean, as Midshipman of the  98. On his rejunction of the latter ship, after having witnessed in the 38, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, the capture of Porto d’Anzo, and the operations against Leghorn and Genoa, he returned home and was paid off in July, 1814. Until 26 Oct. 1816 he further served, on the Home and Jamaica stations, in the 50 Capt. Hon. H. Duncan,  50, Capt. John Mackellar,  50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral J. E. Douglas,  18, Capt. Chas. Geo. Rodney Phillott, and again, Capt. John Mackellar. He then became successively Acting-Lieutenant, also in the West Indies, of the and  frigates, Capts, Philip Carteret and J. Mackellar; and, on 9 July, 1817, was confirmed into his former ship, the  18, still commanded by Capt. Phillott. Having returned to England in Aug. 1818 on board the brig, Capt. Norwich Duff, Mr. Graham next joined – 15 Sept. 1819 the  42, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Geo. Ralph Collier on the coast of Africa – and 14 Dec. 1822 and 11 March, 1823, the 104, and  120, as Flag-Lieutenant to Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth. In the capacity of Commander, a rank he attained 17 April, 1824, Capt. Graham was subsequently, 16 June, 1829, appointed to the 16, on the Mediterranean station. He was promoted to the command, 4 Nov. 1830, of the 28, attached to the force in South America, whence he returned home and was paid off 10 Nov. 1833 He has been employed on the East India station since 28 April, 1343, as Captain of the  36. In Dec. 1845, while Senior officer of the squadron at New, he there landed in command of about 340 officers, seamen, and marines, for the purpose of co-operating with a body of troops under Colonel Despard in the reduction of a pah belonging to a rebel chieftain named Kawiti, and situated in a thick forest on a mountain 14 miles inland from the head of the river Kawakawa. After more than three weeks of indefatigable labour and exertion, during which the British, notwithstanding great wetness in the weather, were constantly employed in cutting roads through the woods and over the hills of a hitherto untraversed country, in erecting batteries near the pah, in then breaching, shelling, and rocketing it, and had moreover to live under what shelter they could temporarily contrive out of the bush, the enemy’s stronghold was assaulted and carried in triumph. For this service Capt. Graham was nominated a C.B. 27 July, 1846. – Messrs. Chard.

 GRAHAM. 

passed his examination 26 Feb. 1841; and served as Mate, on the North America and West India, Mediterranean, South American, East India, and Cape of Good Hope stations, in the 18, Capt. Philip Gostling,  38, Capt. Hon. Geo. Grey, 18, Capts. Robt. Fitzgerald Gambier and Robt. Hibbert Bartholomew Rowley, and 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres. He obtained his commission 2 June, 1846, and, since 19 Aug. in that year, has been serving in the East Indies on board the 12, Capt. John Chas. Pitman.

 GRAHAM. 

entered the Navy, 24 April, 1809, as A.B. on board 100, Capt. Philip Dumaresq, of which ship, bearing the flag in the Baltic of Sir Jas. Saumarez, he became Midshipman 30 June following. From May, 1810, until the receipt of his first commission, which bears date 20 Sept. 1815, he was successively employed, on the Home and Cape of Good Hope stations, in the 32, Capt. Hon. Granville Leveson Proby,  frigate, Capt. Wm. Butterfield. Victory again, Capt. Dumaresq, and, flag-ships of Rear-Admiral John Ferrier,  74, Capt. Thos. Baker, and sloop, Capt. Geo. Tyler. He afterwards joined, in the capacity of Lieutenant – 3 June, 1818, the 20, Capt. John Furneaux, under whom he was wrecked, in the Bay of Bengal, 6 July, 1820 – and, 6 April, 1821, the  42, Capt. Jas. Lillicrap, at the Cape of Good Hope. He was promoted to the command, 16 June, 1823, of the 10, on the Jamaica station; was invested with Post-rank 3 Oct. 1825; and on 1 Oct. 1846 accepted the Retirement.

 GRAHAM. 

, born at Stonehouse, co. Devon, is son of the late Lieut.-Colonel Rich. Graham, R.M.; and only brother of the present Capt. Fortescue Graham, R.M. He is a relative of the Marchioness of Thomond.

This officer entered the Navy, in 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the sloop, Capt. Thos. Innes, employed on the Home station. On his return from a subsequent voyage with convoy to Quebec, whither he had gone as Midshipman of the 38, Capt. Hon. Chas. Herbert, he joined the 98, successive flagship of Admirals Edw. Thornbrough, Sir Jas. Saumarez, and Jas. Gambier, under the latter of whom he attended the expedition of 1807 to Copenhagen. He then returned to Portsmouth on board the Waldemaar, one of the captured 80’s, commanded by Capt. Andw. King, but, soon rejoining Lord Gambier, continued to serve with that officer, in the