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BAIN—BAINBRIDGE—BAIRD. BAIN. 

entered the Navy, 4 Sept. 1793, as A.B., on board the 32, Capt. Geo. Murray, on the Home station, where, during nearly the whole of the war, he continued to serve, in 36, Capt. Geo. Losack, 98, Capts. Edm. Dod, Matthew Squire, and Theophilus Jones, 100, bearing the flag of Lord Bridport, and  74, Capts. Hon. Robt. Stopford and John Nash. While in the latter ship, of which he was confirmed a Lieutenant 22 Jan. 1800, Mr. Bain, in the course of the same year, succeeded, with the boats under his orders, in cutting out three large brigs near Abervrach, on the coast of France. From the summer of 1802, when he returned from a visit to the West Indies, until Dec. 1808, we next find him serving, chiefly with Capt. (latterly Rear-Admiral) Stopford, in the 74, and participating during that period, as Second Lieutenant, in the action off St. Domingo, 6 Feb. 1806, and, as Senior, in the bombardment of Copenhagen, in Sept. 1807. In Aug. 1809, after an interval of half-pay, he rejoined Admiral Stopford in the 74; and, on ultimately proceeding to the Cape of Good Hope, was there promoted to the command, 29 March, 1811, of the  sloop, part of the force employed at the ensuing reduction of Java. He ultimately became Acting-Captain, 26 Jan. 1812, of the 64, bearing the flag of his friend Admiral Stopford, but was not confirmed until 6 April, 1813, a few weeks previously to which period he had rejoined the. In the following Aug. he was again appointed to the, flagship at the time of Rear-Admiral Chas. Tyler, in which he came home, and was paid off 24 May, 1814. He has not since been employed. He was invested with his present rank 1 Oct. 1846.

Rear-Admiral Bain married, 3 April, 1821, Sarah, eldest daughter of the Rev. Wm. Haggitt, Chaplain of Chelsea Hospital.

 BAINBRIDGE. 

is second son of the late Geo. Cole Bainbridge, Esq., of Gattonside House, Roxburghshire.

This officer passed his examination 26 Sept. 1836; served for some time as Mate in the 120, and  120, flag-ships in the Mediterranean and at Devonport of Sir Fras. Mason and Sir David Milne; and, on 21 Feb. 1845, was promoted into the 10, Capt. John Simpson, with whom he is now serving on the coast of Africa, as First Lieutenant. He married, 5 March, 1845, Mary Agnes, daughter of Lieut.-Col. Harvey, K.H., Inspecting Field Officer of the Leeds District.

 BAINBRIDGE. 

died of yellow fever at Port Royal, Jamaica, in the early part, we believe, of 1846.

This officer entered the Navy, 30 Jan. 1812; passed his examination in 1819; and obtained his commission, 20 Nov. 1826. He was afterwards appointed – 30 April, 1834, to the 52, flagship of Sir Geo. Cockburn – 15 May, 1835, to the 16, Capt. Edw. Geo. Carpenter – 18 May, 1836, to the 74, Capts. Thos. Ball Sulivan and Wm. Bowen Mends – 22 June, 1837, to the 78, Capts. Fras. Brace and John Drake – 18 Oct. 1838, to the 84, Capt. Barrington Reynolds – and, 14 May, 1842, as First Lieutenant, to the  78, Capt. Edw. Barnard – on the North America and West India, Lisbon, and Mediterranean stations. From 28 Jan. 1843, until the period of his death, he commanded the schooner, in the West Indies. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 BAIRD. 

entered the Navy, 7 April, 1807 or 1808, as A.B., on board the 32, Capt. Hon. Geo. Poulett, under whose successor, Capt. Chas. Sibthorp John Hawbayne, he continued to serve until Jan. 1812, during which period he was present, as Midshipman, in the boats of the, with those of the , , and , in an unsuccessful attack on the enemy’s flotilla in the river Scheldt in 1809, and witnessed the subsequent capture of a large number of privateers and other armed vessels. He was next employed for three years, latterly as Master’s Mate, in the 36, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland, mostly on the West India station, where, for a short period, from Feb. to April, 1815, he served on board the  74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Sir Philip Durham. He obtained his first commission on 19 Sept. in the latter year, but did not succeed in procuring an appointment until 6 April, 1818, when he joined the 18, Capt. Jas. Hanway Plumridge, and proceeded to St. Helena, from which station he invalided in April, 1820. On 8 Dec. in the following year, he joined the 18, Capts. Geo. Tyler, Edw. Curzon, and Wm. Fanshawe Martin; and, on his eventual return from a visit to South America, became attached, in Oct. 1824, to the 46. In that frigate Mr. Baird immediately sailed for the East Indies with the broad pendant of Sir Jas. Brisbane, by whom, on 2 Dec. 1825, he was promoted to the command of the sloop, stationed at Rangoon during the latter part of the Burmese war – an appointment which the Admiralty confirmed by commission, dated 20 May, 1826. The subject of this memoir, who left the towards the close of the same year, was subsequently, from 4 Oct. 1837, until the close of 1342, employed as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard. He has since been on half-pay. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 BAIRD. 

entered the Navy, 28 July, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 46, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, and attained the rating of Midshipman 23 Feb. 1804. On 16 March and 17 Aug. in the same year, he assisted at the capture of the French privateers Braave, of 16 guns and 110 men, and (after a chase of 20 hours) Blonde, of 30 guns and 240 men; was under fire of the batteries in Muros Bay when they were gallantly stormed and carried, and the privateers Confiance and Bélier taken by the boats under Lieut, the late Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo, 4 June, 1805; aided, on 25 of the same month, in capturing another privateer, Le Vaillant, of force similar to the Blonde; on 24 Dec. following was in company with at the capture, after an obstinate resistance, of La Libre, of 40 guns and 280 men; and, in July,, conveyed to Sir Rich. Keats, off L’Orient, intelligence which led to the capture of Le Rhin, of 44 guns. He returned home, and was paid off in Oct. 1806; and, after an intermediate attachment to the 74,  38, and  98, was, in Dec. following, appointed, with Capt. Maitland, to the  36. In April, 1807, we find him contributing to the capture, among other vessels, of the Austerlitz privateer, of 14 guns and 96 men, and during the remainder of the year employed with the force under Sir Rich. John Strachan at the blockade of Rochefort. On the night of 13 March, 1808, Mr. Baird participated, under Lieut. Chas. Bertram, in a very desperate effort to bring out from Vivero harbour, on the coast of Spain, a large French schooner, L’Apropos, of 8 guns and 70 men, of which, while the majority of the boats were engaged with two heavy forts, he was deputed to take possession. The attack however proving impracticable, in consequence of the vessel having gone on shore at high water, she was eventually fired and blown up; previously to which, Mr. Baird, who had been rejoined by Lieut. Bertram, had taken part in a sharp affray with the enemy, and had been for several hours exposed to a galling fire from the musketry of a body of troops not 30 yards distant. He afterwards, in April, 1809, witnessed, as Master’s Mate, Lord Gambler’s destruction of the shipping in