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GRAYDON—GREATHED—GREEN. GRAYDON. 

entered the Navy, 3 March, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 32, Capts. Jas. Brisbane and Wm. Hen. Brown Tremlett, in which frigate he served off the coasts of France and Spain, latterly as Midshipman, until wrecked, off Nantes, while blockading two of the enemy’s frigates, 29 April, 1809. In June following he joined the 74, Capt. Broughton, stationed off L’Orient; and he was next successively employed, between Aug. 1810 and June, 1814, towards the close of the time as Acting-Lieutenant, in the  cutter, Lieut.-Commanders Rich. Crossman and Jas. Allen, and and  brigs, Capts. Jas. Askey and Wm. Ross Bamber, on the Cadiz, Mediterranean, and Home stations. He then became attached, in the capacity last mentioned, to the 20, Capt. John Pasco, and  brig, Capt. Chas. Warde. Since the receipt of his commission, which bears date 13 March, 1815, he has been on half-pay. – Pettet and Newton.

 GREATHED. 

passed his examination 16 May, 1840, and served as Mate, on the Mediterranean and Home stations, in the 78, Capt. Sir Jas. Stirling, and 110,  84, and  120, flag-ships of Sir Edw. W. C. B. Owen and Sir Chas. Ogle. He obtained his commission 7 Feb. 1846, and has been since serving, again in the Mediterranean, on board the 12, Capt. John Moore.

 GREEN, Kt., K.C.H., K.S.S.

entered the Navy, 14 April, 1793, as Midshipman, on board the 74, Capt. Thos. Lennox Frederick, under whom, after serving at the investment of Toulon, also at the reduction of Bastia, and in Hotham’s first action, he was wrecked, during a gale, near Avenza, 18 March, 1795. On 7 of the following October, having intermediately joined the 74, armée en flûte, Capt. John Gore, he had the further misfortune to be captured, after a brave defence of 40 minutes, by a French squadron under M. Richery. On his restoration to liberty, in March, 1796, he became Midshipman of the 74, bearing the flag of Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian, Commander-in-Chief in the West Indies, where he beheld the reduction of Ste. Lucie, the destruction of the French frigate Harmonie and the evacuation of St. Domingo. From the, of which ship he had been nominated Acting-Lieutenant 22 June, 1799, he removed in that capacity, 16 April, 1800, to the 74, Capt. Jas. Wallace. Being officially promoted on his return to England, by commission dated 8 Aug. 1800, Mr. Green next joined in succession – 17 Sept. in the same year, the 74, Capts. Thos. Fras. Fremantle, Baker, and Geo. M‘Kinley, under the first of whom, previously to sailing for America and the West Indies, he served at the battle of Copenhagen 2 April, 1801 – 9 Sept. 1803, to the 24, Capts. Nicholas and Wm. Hoste, in command of the boats of which vessel, on her arrival in the Mediterranean from the coast of Africa, he acquired great praise for his gallantry in an attack made, 6 Oct. 1805, on the Mestuo la Solidad Spanish privateer of 6 guns, and a convoy of which the latter had charge – immediately after the latter event, to the 98, Capt. T. F. Fremantle, one of the  fleet in the ensuing action off Trafalgar, and part of the force next employed at the siege of Danzig – and, after 15 months of half-pay, 23 March, 1807, and 23 July, 1808, to the command, on the Baltic, Home, Mediterranean, and American stations, of the  and  cutters. Obtaining a second promotal commission 1 Feb. 1812, Capt. Green subsequently joined the and  sloops. In the former of those vessels he distinguished himself at the capture of Cuxhaven; and he was further present, as a volunteer, at the reduction of Gluckstadt. He acquired Post-rank 12 April, 1814, and was afterwards appointed – 16 May, 1815, and 25 Aug. 1818, to the 24, and  80, as Flag-Captain to Sir T. F. Fremantle, on the Jersey and Mediterranean stations. He left the in March, 1816; and, since the paying off of the  in 1820, has again been on half-pay.

Sir Andw. Pellet Green, who had been created a K.H. and K.S.S. for his services at Cuxhaven and Gluckstadt, received, in 1832, the honour of Knighthood and the K.C.H. He is also a Knight of the Order of the Iron Crown of Austria. He was appointed Naval Aide-de-Camp to William IV. (whose funeral he attended in that capacity) 8 July, 1837, and to Her present Majesty 23 Nov. 1841. He is now Senior Captain of 1814. – J. Chippendale.

 GREEN. 

served as Midshipman on board the 74, Capt. Sam. Hood, in the expedition of Aug. 1800 to Ferrol; and, in July, 1801, having accompanied the same officer into the 74, was next present in Sir Jas. Saumarez’ actions off Algeciras and Cadiz. He afterwards commanded a boat belonging to the at the cutting out of a vessel from under the enemy’s batteries at Martinique. He also saw a good deal of boat-service off St. Eustatius and on the Spanish Main; was in a boat of the 32, Capt. Geo. Sayer, at the taking of several armed vessels in the harbour of Barcelona in 1806; and, on 21 Jan. 1807, led, as Master’s Mate, the five boats of that frigate, carrying altogether 75 officers, seamen, and marines, the whole under command of Lieut. Wm. Coombe, at the boarding and capture, after a pursuit (part of the time under a vertical sun) of eight hours, a sharp contest of a quarter of an hour, two repulses, and a loss of 9 men killed and 22 (including himself twice) wounded, of the French national corvette Le Lynx, of 16 guns and 161 men, 14 of whom were slain and 20 wounded. For their zeal and gallantry in the consummation of this desperate exploit, Mr. Green and the other surviving officers were each presented with a sword by the Patriotic Society. During his continuance in the the subject of this sketch, who, previously to the latter event, had served in her boats at the capture, 12 Nov. 1806, of La Réunion schooner, of 10 guns, further witnessed the surrender of the Danish West India islands in Dec. 1807; and on one occasion, while in command of a tender, armed with a light carronade and 20 men, he captured a vessel of very superior force, after an action in which he was again wounded. He had the misfortune, however, to be soon taken prisoner by a national cutter of 14 guns. He ultimately attained the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 1 1 Aug. 1809; and, on subsequently joining the, succeeded in capturing an armed vessel at the mouth of the river Oost. His last appointment appears to have been, on 20 Aug. 1826, to the Coast Blockade, in which he served for some time as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye.

Lieut. Green married, 22 May, 1827, Caroline, youngest daughter of the late Edw. Golding, Esq., of Maiden ElighErlegh [sic], co. Berks, by whom he has issue. – Collier and Snee.

 GREEN. 

died in Nov. 1846, at the age of 61.

This officer entered the Navy, 9 July, 1796, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Fras. Pender, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Geo. Murray on the Halifax station, where, towards the close of the same year, he became Midshipman of the 32, Capt. Chas. Vinicombe Penrose. While next attached, from Aug. 1797 until Oct. 1801, to the 36, Capt. Stephen G. Church, he appears to have seen much active boat-service in