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568 of Lieutenant, 13 Oct. 1808, be was further employed for periods of a few months in the and  74’s, Capts. John Poo Beresford and R. Donnelly, off Ferrol and Flushing. He then joined the 36, Capt. Sam. Pym, under whom, on returning to the Cape station, he assisted at the blockade of the Mauritius, and contributed to the capture, 21 Sept. 1809, of St. Paul’s, in the Ile de Bourbon. Between May, 1810, and June, 1814, we find Lieut. Irby serving on the Cape, Newfoundland, Channel, Irish, and Halifax stations, in the 50, Capt. Jas. Johnstone, 32, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, 74, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, 38, Capt. Clotworthy Upton, and  38, Capt. Sir Edw. Thos. Troubridge. On 7 of the month last mentioned our officer (who in the had shared in the capture of an American privateer of 17 guns and 100 men, and a French letter-of-marque of 16 guns and 60 men) was promoted to the command of the  32, armée en flûte in which ship he continued (attending intermediately the expedition against New Orleans) until superseded at his own request, for the recovery of his health, in May, 1815. His next appointment was, 8 Aug. 1826, to the 18, fitting for the Mediterranean, where he cruized with great anti-piratic activity until Sept. 1827, when (having been advanced to Post-rank on 2 of the previous July) he removed to the  26. He came home in the 74, which ship he paid off at Plymouth 21 Jan. 1828;’ and did not again go afloat.

Capt. Irby was the author, in conjunction with, of a work entitled ‘Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Syria, and Asia Minor, in 1817-18,’ published in 1823. He married, 8 Feb. 1825, Frances, second daughter of John Mangles, Esq., of Hurley, co. Berks, by whom he has left issue a son and daughter. – Goode and Lawrence.

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entered the Navy, in Aug. 1789, as Midshipman, on board the 74, Capt. Chas, Chamberlayne, from which ship, after having made a voyage to the West Indies, he was discharged in April, 1790. Rejoining the same officer in Oct. 1794, as Master’s Mate, in the 74, he proceeded to the Mediterranean, where he had an opportunity of sharing in Admiral Hotham’s partial action of 13 July, 1795. On 7 Oct. following, having in the mean while removed to the 74, Capt. John Gore, he was in that ship when she was taken, after a gallant defence, by a French squadron under Admiral Richery. On his exchange taking place, Mr. Irvine was received, in the spring of 1796, on board the, a small frigate, commanded by Capt. John Draper. In 1797, on his return from a second visit to the West Indies, during her passage whence the had been dismasted in a hurricane, it was his lot to be one of the officers proscribed by the mutineers at Spithead, in opposing whom he incurred an injury which greatly crippled his right hand. During three months of the ensuing summer, Mr. Irvine, it appears, commanded a gun-brig, named the, lying at Plymouth, He then successively joined the frigate, Capt. Robt. Carthew Reynolds, employed in cruizing with the western squadron, and the 100, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Lord Keith; and on 30 Aug. 1799, he was promoted to a Lieutenancy in the  98, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Thos. Lennox Frederick. Being next appointed to the 38, Capt. Sir Chas. Hamilton, he served with the expedition to the Texel, and in April, 1800, was present at the surrender of the African island of Gorée. On the latter occasion he was placed in charge of the schooner of 10 guns, and sent on a cruize off Senegal. This vessel, in the course of a month, being condemned as unfit for service, he obtained acting-command of the ship-sloop of 16 guns, in which he further cruized in the same vicinity until compelled to invalid in Feb. 1801. Mr. Irvine, who also officiated for a short time as Lieut.-Governor of Gorée itself, subsequently, in Oct. 1804, assumed command of the gun-brig, off the coast of France. Between June, 1805, and April, 1808, he served, on the West India and Mediterranean stations, in the, Capt. Isaac Ferrieres, 98, Capt Fras. Pender, 40, Capt. Edw. Durnford King; and, as First-Lieutenant, in the 74, Capt. Chas. Rowley. On the date last mentioned he became Acting-Captain of the 54; and on 24 of the proximate month he was made Commander into the  armed ship of 18 guns. He came home with convoy in 1809 in the 18; was then paid off; and, not having since been employed, accepted his present rank 10 Sept. 1840.

Capt. Irvine married Susan, daughter of the late Sir John Reade, Bart., and aunt of the present Sir John Chandos Beade, Bart., of Shipton Court, co. Oxford.

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entered the Navy, 17 June, 1807, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the 40, Capt. Hon. Chas. Paget, and, after serving at the capture of Copenhagen, removed to the sloop, Capt. Chas. Kempthome Quash. From Oct. 1808 (during the three months immediately antecedent to which period he had been attached, off Flushing and the Texel, to the 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood) he joined  32, in which frigate, and in the  38, both commanded by Lord Geo. Stuart, we find him continuously employed, as Midshipman, until Feb. 1811. He was in consequence present in the former ship at the blockade of the Elbe, and at the capture, 3 Feb. 1809, of L’Iris French national ship, pierced for 32 guns, but mounting only 24, after a short running fight, in which the latter sustained a loss of 2 men killed and 8 wounded, and (besides being materially damaged in her masts, spars, sails, and rigging) of 2 wounded; and in the, on her return from the Cape of Good Hope to the North Sea, at the reduction of the islands of Schouwen and Tholen in Dec. 1813. In March, 1814, Mr. Irvine was transferred to the 80, bearing the flag of Sir Alex. Cochrane on the coast of North America, where, from 1 Oct. following until 7 June, 1815, he performed the duties of Acting-Lieutenant on board the 74, Capt. Rich. Raggett. He then took up a commission dated on 8 March in the latter year; and has since been on half-pay.

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entered the Navy, 30 Sept. 1805 (under the auspices of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence), as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, commanded by the late Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats, in which ship he fought under the flag of Sir John Duckworth in the action off St. Domingo, 6 Feb. 1805, and attended, in the capacity of Midshipman, the expeditions to Copenhagen and Flushing. He was also present, in Aug. 1808, at the embarkation from Nyeborg of the Spanish army under the Marquis de la Bomana, to whom he acted on the occasion as Aide-de-Camp. In July, 1810, after he had cruized for a short time off Brest in the 74, Capt. John Poo Beresford, he rejoined Sir R. G. Keats on board the  74, employed at the defence of Cadiz, where he assumed a command in the flotilla, and assisted in storming several of the enemy’s batteries. He continued, until Nov. 1813, to serve with the last-mentioned officer on the Mediterranean, Home, and Newfoundland stations, in the 120,  74, and as Lieutenant (commission dated 20 June, 1813) in the  74. While belonging to the, Mr. Irvine twice jumped overboard, and had each time the happiness of saving the life of a man. He was lastly, from 8 Feb. 1826 until 31 Dec. 1827, cmployed in the Coast Blockade as 