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GWYN—GWYNNE—HACKETT. GWYN. 

, a gentleman of ancient Welsh extraction, is fourth and youngest son of the late Hamond Gwyn, Esq., by Frances, daughter of John Pigge, Esq.; and brother of the present Anthony Gwyn, Esq., of Baron’s Hall, Fakenham, co. Norfolk.

This officer entered the Navy, 1 Sept. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., in the 18, Capt. Wm. Fisher, with whom he served at the Cape of Good Hope and in the East Indies, part of the time as Midshipman of the 50, until Feb. 1811. He then returned home in the 28, Capt. Brian Hodgson, and, after a continued attachment of a short period to the same vessel off Cherbourg, where she was commanded by Capt. Edw. Kushworth, was employed, between Dec. 1811 and Aug. 1815, in the 38, Capts. John Wentworth Loring and Wm. Augustus Montagu, and 36, Capts. Lucius Curtis and Bentinck Cavendish Doyle. In the latter ship, besides participating in other operations of the last American war, he attended the expeditions against Washington and Baltimore; and on one occasion he served in her boats with those of the Havannah at the capture, after a spirited action, of the Franklin American schooner of war. On 9 May, 1816, Mr. Gwyn, who, on leaving the, had taken up a commission bearing date 6 March,|1815, joined the 24, Capt. Sam. Chambers, on the Halifax station. He returned home in June, 1817, and has since been unemployed.

Lieut. Gwyn is a Magistrate for the county of Norfolk. He married Mary, daughter of Edw. Rudge, Esq., by whom he has issue five sons and seven daughters. One of the former, Hamond Weston Gwyn, Esq., First-Lieutenant R.M. (1845), is now serving on board the 120.

 GWYNNE, LL.D.

entered the Navy, in Oct. 1789, as Admiral’s Servant, on board the 50, Capt. John Drew, bearing the flag of Sir John Laforey in the West Indies, where he served, latterly as Midshipman, for nearly four years. In Aug. 1793 he became attached to the 28, Capt. Francis Laforey, stationed in the North Sea and Baltic; and, on removing to the  74, Capts. Henry Harvey and Sir Rich. Bickerton, of which ship he successively officiated as Schoolmaster and Master’s Mate, he fought in Lord Howe’s action, 1 June, 1794. Returning subsequently to the West Indies, he there rejoined Sir John Laforey on board the 74; from which ship, on 30 Oct. 1795, he was promoted to a Lieutenancy in  32, Capts. Chas. Sydney Davers and Jemmet Mainwaring. While serving with the last-mentioned officer, we find him, on 23 July, 1796, taking part in a very warm and gallant action with the French 36-gun frigate La Pensée, whose loss on the occasion is stated to have amounted to 90 men killed and wounded, while that of the British ship did not exceed 2 wounded. Mr. Gwynne’s last appointment was to the 74, Capts. Henry Nicholls and Joseph Ellison, with whom he served in the Channel and off Brest from Feb. to Sept. 1797. He became a Retired Commander on the Junior List 26 Nov. 1830; and on the Senior 7 March, 1836.

This officer, a member, we understand, of the English Bar, was lately Mathematical Master at Christ Church. He married Miss Strangways.



HACKETT. 

was born 1 Dec. 1793.

This officer entered the Navy, 15 Feb. 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 36, Capt. Lucius Curtis, stationed off the Isle of France. Between the following year, when he returned to England as Midshipman of the 50, Capt. Jas. Johnstone, and the period of his examination, which he passed in the summer of 1815, he served on the Channel and West India stations, chiefly as Master’s Mate, in the 74, flag-ship of Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke,  10, Capt. Augustus Baldwin,  74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral John Erskine Douglas, and  receiving-ship, Lieut.-Commander Chas. Strangways. From the latter date) until officially promoted, 15 May, 1818, Mr. Hackett was further employed, as Acting-Lieutenant, also in the West indies, on board the 18, Capt. Geo. Bentham,  38, Capt. Jas. Haldane Tait,  38, Capt. Philip Carteret,  18, Capt. Chas. Geo. Rodney Phillott,  20, Capt. Abraham Lowe,  36, Capt. John Mackellar, and  10, Capt. Robt. Rochford Felix. He returned home soon afterwards in the  frigate, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo, who died on the passage; and has since been on half-pay.

Lieut. Hackett has been upwards of 13 years Governor of the County Gaol of Berkshire. He married 22 May, 1830. – Messrs. Chard.

 HACKETT. 

entered the Navy, 16 Dec. 1799, as A.B., on board the 64, Capts. Chas. Boyles, John Dilkes, and Wm. Hotham, in which ship, after participating, as Midshipman, in the battle of Copenhagen, 2 April, 1801, he cruized on the Downs station until Jan. 1805. On next joining, in May, 1806, the 44, Capt. Stephen Thos. Digby, he proceeded to the coast of Africa, and thence to the West Indies, where, in March, 1808, having removed to the 32, Capt. Wm. Selby, he witnessed the capture of the islands of Marie-galante and Desirade. Soon after his return to England Mr. Hackett, on 26 Sept. in the latter year, was promoted, from a Master’s Mateship in the 36, Capt. Wm. Granger, to an Acting-Lieutenancy in the brig, Capt. Rich. Jas. Lawrence O’Connor, with whom he served, in the North Sea and Baltic, until March, 1809. Obtaining a similar appointment, 1 May following, in the sloop, Capt. Hew Steuart, he had an opportunity of attending the ensuing expedition to the Walcheren; but it was not until 11 May, 1811, that, after a re-employment, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the  brig, and  80, commanded in the Channel and off Lisbon by Lieut. Jas. Askey and Capt. Wm. Granger, as also in the 98, flag-ship of Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley, he succeeded in procuring his first Admiralty commission. He then served for a very brief period in the 64, Capt. John Phillimore, and was next appointed, 18 Aug. 1812, and 16 Jan. 1814, to the  troop-ship, Capt. Thos. Barclay, and of 18 guns and 117 men, Capt. Rich. Walter Wales, employed on the North America and West India station. The latter vessel, on 29 April, 1814, had the misfortune, after a desperate engagement of an hour, in which, besides being fearfully damaged, she sustained a loss of 23 men killed and wounded, to be taken by the U.S. sloop Peacock of 22 guns and 185 picked seamen, 2 only of whom were hurt. Among the ’s wounded on the occasion was Mr. Hackett, who, about the middle of the action, had his left arm shattered, and received a severe splinter-wound in the hip, but whose gallantry would hardly suffer him to be carried below. He was ultimately, at the expiration of a short servitude in the 74, Capts. Joshua Sydney Horton and Henry Stuart, promoted to the rank of Commander by commission bearing date 2 Sept. 1828. His last appointment was, 4 Nov. 1833, to the 16, which sloop he paid off, on her return from the Mediterranean, in the spring of 1837. His services, as connected, during a portion of that period, with the civil war in Spain, were rewarded with the first