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660 in the general promotion which followed the capture of the Danish fleet, 17 Commanders, all junior to him, attained superior rank, Capt, Lillicrap, notwithstanding that the important nature of his serviecs was set forth in the strongest manner by Lord Cathcart, the Earl of Rosslyn, Sir Chas. Morice Pole, and the commanding officers of the German Legion, was passed over, and not promoted until three years afterwards; two of which he spent, generally in command of a detached squadron, on the West India station, on his passage whither he effected the capture, 2 Oct. 1808, of La Dorade French privateer, of 1 gun and 20 men. On 24 Jan. 1815, Capt. Lillicrap, whose advancement to Post-rank had at length taken place hy a commission dated 21 Oct. 1810, assumed command of the 42; in which frigate he visited Lisbon and escorted a large fleet of merchantmen home from Oporto. Subsequently to his appointment, 8 April following, to the 38, we find him, while lying in Plymouth Sound, invested by Lord Keith with the command of the boats of the fleet, for the purpose of nightly guarding Napoleon Buonaparte, at the time on board the. On his return to Plymouth, after witnessing the ex-Emperor’s removal to the off Berry Head, he was ordered to Malta, there to deliver Generals Savary and Lallemand, with three Colonels and several other officers, late belonging to Buonaparte’s suite, into the hands of Sir Thos. Maitland. The being paid off 22 Jan. 1816, Capt. Lillicrap did not again go afloat until re-appointed, 6 April, 1821, to the. In the following Sept. he sailed with Lord Chas. Somerset for the Cape of Good Hope, where he had no sooner arrived than he hoisted a broad pendant. He continued for about 12 months to fill the post of Commodore on the same station; during which period, 10 June, 1822, the officers and seamen under his orders were so thoroughly the means of saving the Albion, an Indiaman of immense value, from being lost in a gale in Simon’s Bay, that the Hon. Company awarded the sum of 500l. to be distributed among them. Capt. Lillicrap was himself presented with the same amount. Proceeding, next, to the West Indies, he cruized for a time off Cuba with a detachment under his orders for the suppression of piracy, and on 24 Oct. 1823 was appointed to the 74, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen. He returned home with the latter officer in March, 1824, and was lastly, from 6 April, 1830, until 4 June, 1833, employed as Captain-Superintendent of the Ordinary at Portsmouth. He was admitted to the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital 17 Feb. 1837; and advanced to his present rank 1 Oct. 1846.

Rear-Admiral Lillicrap, while in the Ordinary at Portsmouth, transmitted to the Admiralty a model for rendering the numerous warping or transporting buoys available to the preservation of life. The plan was at once adopted; and the Royal Humane Society, to mark their appreciation of its utility and excellence, forwarded him their medallion. He married, 30 Dec. 1811, Frances Adams, youngest daughter of Giles Welsford, Esq., of Plymouth, by whom he has issue six sons and three daughters. One of the former, Walter Welsford, is a First-Lieutenant R.M. (1838).

 LINCOLN. 

was born 26 July, 1811. This officer entered the Navy, 18 March, 1824, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 46, Capt. Wm. Elliott, employed at first off Lisbon (where his participation, as Midshipman, in the operations against Don Miguel procured him the medal of the Tower and Sword of Portugal), and -afterwards on the West India, African, and Channel stations. Having left the in Dec. 1826, he next, in March, 1827, joined the  74, Capts. Fred. Lewis Maitland and Sam. Campbell Rowley, attached to the force in the Mediterranean, on which station (with the exception of an interval between Jan. 1832 and Nov. 1833) he served, in the capacity of Mate, from 1830 until within a short period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant 26 Dec. 1837, in the same ship and in the 18, Capt. Geo. Rodney Mundy, and 74, Capts. Henry Shovell Marsham and Wm. Augustus Montagu. His commission was awarded to him while an invalid at Plymouth Hospital, whither he had been sent in consequence of illness contracted in the performance of duty at Cadiz; and which, having produced lameness, has since kept him on half-pay.

 LIND. 

died 17 July, 1847.

This officer entered the Navy, 17 Feb. 1800, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. Hon. Michael De Courcy and Joseph Sydney Yorke, stationed in the Channel, where he attained the rating of Midshipman 2 July, 1801. Removing, in March, 1802, to the 74, Capt. Sir Rich. John Strachan, he was for upwards of three years employed in that ship, chiefly at the blockade of Cadiz; after which we find him, from Aug. 1804 until June, 1809, and from Aug. in the latter year until April, 1815, serving, on the Mediterranean and Home stations, part of the time as Master’s Mate, in the 32, Capt. Wm. D’Urban, and 74, Capts. Wm. Cuming, Norbone Thompson, Geo. Parker, and Henry Bazely. He then took up a commission bearing date 7 Feb. 1815; and remained thenceforward on half-pay. – Joseph Woodhead.

 LINDSAY. 

passed his examination in 1827; obtained his commission 10 Jan. 1837; and was afterwards appointed – 8 Feb. 1837, to the 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Henry Dillon, employed in the Mediterranean and off Lisbon – 8 April, 1839, to the 24, Capt. Jenkin Jones, fitting for the South American station, whence he returned home and was paid off at the close of 1842 – and, 23 Feb. 1844, to the  50., Capt. Hon. John Gordon, attached to the force in the Pacific. He left the latter ship on her arrival in England in 1846; and is at present on half-pay.

 LINDSAY. 

died 18 Sept. 1845.

This officer entered the Navy, 22 Aug. 1803, as A.B., on board the 18, Capt. Wm. Roberts, on the West India station, whence he returned to England with the same Captain in the summer of 1804, as Midshipman of. He was then, until Dec. 1810, employed on board the 74, Capts. Geo. Duff, Robt. Dudley Oliver, Wm. Lukin, Jas. Katon, and John Surman Garden; and while so attached he took part, as Acting Second-Mate, in the battle of Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805 – assisted in taking, 28 July, 1806, Le Rhin, of 44 guns and 318 men – was present, 25 Sept. following, with Sir Sam. Hood’s squadron, at the capture, off Rochefort, of four heavy French frigates, two of which, the Gloire 46 and Infatigable 44, struck to the – attended the expedition of 1807 to Copenhagen – and was actively employed in affording protection to the Baltic trade. On leaving the, Mr. Lindsay joined the 98, bearing the flag in the Thames of Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley, with whom he served for a period of 13 months. He then, in Jan. 1812, became Acting-Sub-Lieutenant of the, Lieut.-Commander John Murray, and sailed for Halifax, where in July, 1813, he followed the latter officer into the 12. He came home in April, 1814; obtained his commission 13 Feb. 1815; and was lastly, from 27 March, 1828, until April, 1829, employed in command of the Revenue-vessel. – Coplands and Burnett.

