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610 July, 1831, the 42, Capt. Chas. Napier, and 24, Capt. Jas. Hanway Plumridge – the latter on the East India station; was promoted to the rank of Commander 30 Jan. 1833; served from 16 May, 1834, until the spring of 1838, in the 16, in the Mediterranean and at the Cape of Good Hope; attained his present rank 5 Dec. 1837; and, from 30 Aug. 1841 until his return to England in 1845, commanded the  18. He served, in the latter vessel, at the capture of Woosung and Shanghae, and in the operations on the Yang-tse-Kiang, in 1842; and in Aug. 1844, with only the and Hon.E.I.Co.’s steamer  under his orders, he attacked a large piratical settlement on the island of Borneo; where, while the loss of the British amounted to 32 men killed and 30 wounded, the enemy had five of their towns destroyed, 250 men killed, some thousands of houses and 200 or 300 proas of various descriptions burnt, and 70 brass guns and 13 flags taken. Since he was paid off Capt. Keppel has been unemployed. He married, 25 Feb. 1839, Katherine Louisa, daughter of the late General Sir John Crosbie, G.C.H., of Watergate, co. Sussex. – Joseph Woodhead.

 KERR. 

, born 30 Sept. 1818, is third son of William, sixth Marquess of Lothian, K.T., by his second wife, Harriet, daughter of Henry, third Duke of Buccleuch. His lordship, who is half-uncle of the present Marquess, is brother of Lord Chas. Lennox Kerr, an officer in the 42nd Regt., and Aide-de-Camp to the late Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and of Lord Mark Ralph Geo. Kerr, a Captain in the Army; brother-in-law both of Lord Clinton and of Sir John Stuart Forbes, Bart.; and first-cousin of, as also of

This officer entered the Navy 14 June, 1831; passed his examination in 1837; and was made Lieutenant, 21 Oct. 1840, into the steamer, Capt. Wm. Honyman Henderson, on the Mediterranean station, where he removed, 16 Jan. 1841, to the 72, Capt. Houston Stewart. The latter ship being paid off in the spring of 1842, he was next appointed, 7 Feb. 1843, and 18 April, 1844, to the steam-sloop, Capt. Geo. Nathaniel Broke, and 50, bearing the flag of Hon. Josceline Percy, in which ships he was for three years employed at the Cape of Good Hope. He attained his present rank 3 July, 1846, and has since been on half-pay. – Hallett and Robinson.

 KERR. 

passed his examination 22 May, 1837; and was employed as Mate in the 72, Capt. John Lawrence,  72, and  104, flag-ships of Sir Thos. John Cochrane and Sir Edw. Brace, and steam-vessel, Lieut.Commander Wm. Pearson Crozier, on the Mediterranean and Home stations. He attained his present rank 14 Aug. 1844, and on 9 of the following Sept. was appointed to the 12, Capt. Robt. Harris, fitting at Portsmouth. He was almost immediately afterwards superseded, and has since been on half-pay.

 KERR. 

entered the Navy in 1831; passed his examination 15 Feb. 1839; and after serving for nearly three years as Mate of the 72, flag-ship in the East Indies of Sir Thos. John Cochrane, was made Lieutenant, 15 Jan. 1845, into the surveying-vessel, Capt. Rich. Collinson, with whom he returned home from the East Indies and was paid off at the close of 1846.

 KERR. 

, born in 1821, is third son of the late Lord Robt. Kerr, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, by Mary, daughter of the Rev. Edm. Gilbert, of Windsor House, Cornwall; and grandson of William John, fifth Marquess of Lothian, His eldest brother, Wm. Walter Raleigh, is Assistant Auditor-General at the Mauritius; and his youngest, Robt. Dundas, is an officer in the R.E. The Lieutenant (whose first-cousin,, is a Commander in the Navy) is brother-in-law of Lieut-General Sir Wm. Maynard Gomm, K.C.B., and of Lieut.-Colonel Wm. Henry Cornwall, of the Coldstream Guards.

This officer passed his examination 26 May, 1841; and from the early part of 1842 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 19 Dec. 1844 was employed in the Pacific as Mate of the 26, Capt. Lord Geo. Paulet. He has been serving since 16 Aug. 1845 in the 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres, at the Cape of Good Hope.

 KERR. 

was born 30 March, 1791.

This officer entered the Navy, 25 April, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Geo. Hope, employed at the Cape of Good Hope. In Nov. 1807, after he had been for a short time attached to the 74, commanded in the Baltic by Capt. Peter Halkett, he rejoined Capt. Hope as Midshipman in the  74, then lying at Chatham. From March, 1808, until Oct. 1811, we again find him in the Baltic on board the 100, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez, and frigate, Capt. Joseph Baker. He was then received into the 74, bearing the flag at the Nore of Sir Thos. Williams; on leaving whom, in May, 1812, he went back to the. He was confirmed a Lieutenant, 20 Nov. 1812, in the sloop, Capt. Colin Campbell; and was subsequently, on his return from a voyage to Quebec, appointed – 24 Dec. 1813, and 3 Hay, 1814, to the  and  74’s, flag-ships in the North Sea and at the Brazils of Admirals John Ferrier and Manley Dixon – and, 28 Aug. 1815, to the  18, Capt. John Smith, on the Home station. He has been. on half-pay since 1816.

Lieut. Kerr married, 1 Jan. 1833, Helen, eldest daughter of the late Adam Smith, Esq., of Stockbridge; and has issue one son.

 KERR. 

entered the Navy 6 July, 1813; and was Midshipman of the 98, flagship of Rear-Admiral David Milne, at the battle of Algiers, 27 Aug. 1816: He passed his examination in 1819; obtained his commission 13 Aug. 1830; and, with the exception of a period of rather more than three years (from 28 Jan. 1837 until the spring of 1840) employed in the Coast Guard, has since been on half-pay. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 KERR. 

, born 3 April, 1814, is second surviving son (by Charlotte, late Countess of Antrim, third daughter of Randall, late Marquess of Antrim) of the late Lord Mark Robt. Kerr, Vice-Admiral of the White. He is grandson of Wm. John, fifth Marquess of Lothian, K.T., Colonel of the 11th Regt. of Dragoons; brother of the present Earl of Antrim; brother-in-law of the Earl of Abingdon; and first-cousin of

This officer passed his examination in 1834; obtained his first commission 10 Oct. 1837; and was subsequently appointed – 29 April, 1838, to the 72, Capt. Thos. Maitland, in which ship<section end="Kerr, Mark"/>