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GROVES—GUNNELL—GUNNING—GURLEY—GUTZMER—GUYON. the 74, Capt. Wm. Hall Gage, part of Sir Edw. Pellew’s force in his action of 13 Feb. 1814 with the Toulon fleet – and 26 Sept. 1814, the 10, Capt. Henry Fyge Jauncey. Since the period of his leaving the latter vessel, 24 June, 1815, Lieut. Grove has been on half-pay.

 GROVES. 

was born 29 March, 1795, at Godmanstone, co. Dorset.

This officer entered the Navy, 21 Nov. 1809, as a Volunteer, on board the 44, Capt. Stephen Thos. Digby, with whom, until the peace of 1815, he continued to serve, a great part of the time as Midshipman, in the same ship, and in the 36,  74, and  38. While on her passage out with convoy, the, at noon on 8 Sept. 1812, being at the time in the China Sea, was caught in a typhoon, and before midnight had nothing standing but the foremast and bowsprit. During his attachment to the, Mr. Groves attended the expedition to New Orleans, where constant exposure to wet and cold in an open boat deprived him for some time of the use of his limbs. In Jan. 1816, shortly after he had passed his examination, he was appointed Mate of the 50, flag-ship of Sir Pulteney Malcolm at St. Helena, from which station he returned to England and was paid off 10 Sept. 1817. Re-entering the service in Dec. 1818, he joined the 46, Capt. Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, whom he soon afterwards accompanied, as Admiralty-Midshipman, to the Mediterranean. On 18 May, 1821, we find Mr. Groves serving, under Lieut. Arthur Morrell, in one of two boats belonging to the latter ship, and assisting at the capture, in the harbour of St. Jean, in the Gulf of Patras, of two Greek pirate-boats, together with two others supposed to be their prizes; on which occasion the British sustained a loss of 1 man killed and 3 slightly wounded. While next borne on the books, from May 1823 until March, 1825, of the 74, and  yacht, Capts. Thos. Dundas and Chas. Malcolm, he was part of the time employed in the British and Irish Channels on board the Falcon and tenders. He was ultimately, on 28 April, 1827, advanced to his present rank, while serving in the 104, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Geo. Martin. Since that period he has been on half-pay.

Lieut. Grove, whose first marriage took place 25 Sept. 1827, wedded, secondly, 16 April, 1838, Harriet, daughter of the late Mr. Levi Groves, of Minterne, co. Dorset. Two children are the surviving issue of his first marriage.

 GUNNELL. 

entered the Navy 21 Jan. 1826; parsed his examination 28 Aug. 1832; and was promoted, while serving in the East Indies, as Mate of the 44, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Grey, to the rank of Lieutenant 23 Nov. 1841. His appointments have since been – 23 Nov. 1841, and 29 June, 1842, to the 72, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker, and 18, Capt. Hon. Henry Keppel, both on the above station – and 1 March, 1845, to the  50, Capt. Geo. Bohun Martin. Of that ship, which has been successively employed on the south-east and north coasts of America, he is now Senior Lieutenant.

 GUNNING. 

, born 12 May, 1799, is fourth son of the late Sir Geo. Wm. Gunning, Bart., by Elizabeth, daughter of Henry, first Lord Bradford. He is brother of the present Sir Robt. Henry Gunning, Bart., of Horton, co. Northampton; also of Lieut. Geo. Orlando Gunning, of the 10th Hussars, who fell at Waterloo; and of Octavius Wm. Gunning, Esq., a Captain in the Army.

This officer entered the Navy (from the Royal Naval College), in 1815, on board the 100, Capt. Edw. Pelham Brenton, bearing the flag of Sir Benj. Hallowell at Plymouth, where he was speedily transferred with the same officers to the 80. Between 1816 and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 25 Sept. 1821, we find him employed, on the St. Helena, Home, and Mediterranean stations, in the 18, Capt. Geo. Fred. Rich, 50, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, and  46, Capt. Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew. He subsequently joined, in the course of 1823, the 26, Capt. John Macpherson Ferguson, and  50, and  76, both commanded by Capt. Gordon Thos. Falcon, and all employed on the coast of South America – 20 Nov. 1825, the 74, also commanded by the latter officer – and 18 Sept. 1829, the  84, Capt. John Hayes. He assumed command, 26 Feb. 1830, of the 18, from which vessel, on 30 April in the same year, he removed to the  bomb. He was paid off on his return from the Mediterranean 11 June following, and has not since been afloat.

Commander Gunning married, 22 June, 1830, Mary Dora, fourth daughter of the late Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, Bart., by whom he has issue. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 GURLEY. 

passed his examination in 1816; and obtained his commission 14 June, 1827. He has since been on half-pay.

This officer is at present, we believe, a Stipendiary Magistrate at Jamaica. – J. Chippendale.

 GUTZMER. 

entered the Navy 22 Aug. 1814; passed his examination in 1821; and was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 14 July, 1829, in the 26, Capt. Geo. Wm. Conway Courtenay, employed on the Jamaica station, where he successively removed, on 31 July following, and 21 March, 1831, to the 10, Capt. Joseph P. D. Lawson, and  receiving-ship, Lieut.-Commander John Paget. He left the latter vessel, in consequence of her establishment being reduced, in Dec. 1832; and, since 1 Feb. 1837, has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard. – J. Hinxman.

 GUYON. 

was born 21 Nov. 1807.

This officer entered the Navy, 11 Feb. 1823, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 42, Capt. Gardiner Henry Guion, in the boats of which frigate he served at the capture of several piratical vessels in the Grecian Archipelago. In the course of 1826 he successively joined the 74, commanded at Sheerness by Capt. Joshua Sydney Horton, and  84, fitting for the flag of Sir Robt. Otway, then about to assume the direction of naval affairs in South America. In Sept. 1829, a few months after he had passed his examination, Mr. Guyon returned to England. He subsequently joined, in the capacity of Mate – 10 June, 1830, the again, Capts. Edw. Stirling Dickson and Geo. Burdett, attached to the force in the Mediterranean – 21 April, 1832, the 18, Capt. Jas. Rich. Booth, off the coast of Ireland – 9 Nov. following, the 74, Capt. Hon. Josceline Percy, with whom he returned to the Mediterranean, and there served, latterly in the  84, until Feb. 1837 – and 9 Aug. 1837, the  steam-vessel, Capt. Arthur Wakefield, employed on the same station. His appointments, as Lieutenant, which rank he attained 28 June, 1838, were, also in the Mediterranean – 25 July, 1838, to the 50, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry – 19 Nov. 1839, to the  steamer, Capt. Horatio Thos. Austin, in which vessel he participated In the capture of the castle of Gebail, the town of Sidon, and other places on the coast of Syria – and, 3 Feb. 1841, to the 72, Capt. John Lawrence. He has been on half-pay since Feb. 1842.

