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 LITTLEHALES. 

is second son of the late Vice-Admiral Littlehales.

This officer entered the Navy, 3 Dec. 1818; served for some time in the Mediterranean as Midshipman of the 76, flag-ship of Sir Harry Burrard Neale; passed his examination in 1825; and was made Lieutenant, 11 March, 1828, into the  28, Capts. Jas. Stirling and Wm. Clarke Jervoise. In Nov. 1829 the latter ship was all but lost on a reef, while making for Cockburn Sound, in Western Australia; on which occasion Mr. Littlehales’ exemplary conduct was of so signal a nature that he not only received the warmest thanks of Capt. Jervoise, but was permitted by the Lords of the Admiralty to succeed the present Captain Edmund Yonge, whose own conduct on the occasion procured him promotion, in the post of First-Lieutenant, and to retain it until paid off 16 Dec. 1831. His subsequent appointments were – 8 April, 1834, as Senior, to the 74, Capt. Henry Shiffner, bearing the flag afterwards of Sir Wm. Hall Gage on the Lisbon station, whence he returned at the close of 1837 – and, 2 March, 1840, to the command of the brigantine on the coast of Africa. He attained the rank he now holds 23 Nov. 1841; and since Jan. 1842 has been on half-pay. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 LITTLEWORT. 

born 5 Nov. 1792, is son of Lieut. Rich. Littlewort, R.N. (1777), who was on board the 50, in 1779, lost an eye in the service of his country, and died on full-pay in 1798.

This officer entered the Navy, 25 May, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, commanded in the North Sea and Mediterranean by his friend and patron Capt. John Harvey; with whom, after having witnessed, as Midshipman, the destruction of the two French line-of-battle ships Robuste and Lion near Cape Cette, he removed in March, 1811, in the capacity of Master’s Mate, to the  100. On leaving the last-mentioned ship, which had been recently commanded by Capt. Wm. Bedford, Mr. Littlewort was successively employed between Aug. 1812 and Aug. 1815, part of the time as Acting-Master, in the 18, Capt. Henry Montresor,  74, Capt. Wm. Hall Gage, 22, Capts. Hon. Algernon Percy and Hon. Robt. Rodney, and sloop, Capt. Hon. A. Percy – on the Cork, North Sea, Mediterranean, Halifax, and Portsmouth stations. He then joined the 50, bearing the flag in the West Indies of his former Commander, Rear-Admiral Harvey, who procured him a commission dated 1 Jan. 1817. He continued in the until paid off in April, 1819; and since 12 March, 1838, has been in command of a station in the Coast Guard.

Previously to the receipt of his present appointment Lieut. Littlewort (who is Senior of 1817) was for a long time employed in the Merchant service, in which, we understand, he endured the heaviest misfortunes. His eldest and only surviving son was drowned in his arms when wrecked off the coast of Portugal in 1831. He has one daughter now living. He had married in May, 1823. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 LIVINGSTONE, Bart. 

is son of the late Sir Alex. Livingstone, Bart., by his first wife, Anne, daughter of John Atkinson, Esq., of London. He succeeded his father, as 10th Baronet, in 1795; and is heir and representative of the attainted Earl of Linlithgow.

This officer entered the Navy, 17 Sept. 1782, on board the frigate, Capt. Rich. Husaey Bickerton, on the Home station; where, and in the West Indies, he served, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 22 Nov. 1790, in the 32, Capt. Thos. Pringle, 64, Capt. Wm. Parker, 74, Commodore Sir Andrew Snape Hamond,  frigate, Capt. R. H. Bickerton, and  98, Capt. Geo. Bowyer. His succeeding appointments were – for a few months in 1791, to the store-ship, Capt. Chas. Paton – 16 Jan. 1793, to the 74, commanded by the late Sir Jas. Wallace, under whom he witnessed the unsuccessful attack made in the following June upon Martinique – and in April, 1795, and April, 1796, to the and  74’s, flag-ships of Rear-Admiral Thos. Pringle in the North Sea and at the Cape of Good Hope. On 26 Dec. 1796, after having acted for four months on the latter station as Commander of the sloop. Sir Thos. Livingstone was confirmed in his appointment to that vessel. In Feb. 1797, in consequence of her being condemned as unfit for service, he took a passage home, and was next, 2 June, 1798, appointed to the 44, armée en flûte in which vessel we find him, in 1799, employed in conveying part of the Russian contingent from Revel to England. He was posted, 13 Jan. 1800, into the 64, employed as a troop-ship in the expeditions to Quiberon and Belleisle; and he was subsequently invested with the command – 10 Dec. 1800, of the  64, in which vessel, prior to her being paid off in Oct. 1802, he accompanied Sir John Borlase Warren to the coast of Egypt in quest of a French squadron under M. Ganteaume – 17 July, 1804, and 23 Jan. 1805, of the  and  frigates, stationed at first in the Downs and off Boulogne, for the purpose of watching the enemy’s flotilla, and then in the Mediterranean, where the, in effecting the capture, 4 April, 1806, under the fire of Fort Callaretes, of the Vigilante Spanish brig of war of 18 guns and 109 men, sustained a loss of 2 wounded, and occasioned her antagonist one of 4 killed and wounded – and lastly, 3 Oct. 1821 (not having been afloat since the  was put out of commission in June, 1808), of the  74, on the Lisbon station. He became a Rear-Admiral 22 July, 1830; and a Vice-Admiral 28 June, 1838.

Sir Thos. Livingstone, a Deputy-Lieutenant for co. Linlithgow, is Keeper of the Royal Palace of Linlithgow and of the Castle of Blackness. He married, in 1809, Janet, daughter of the late Sir Jas. Stirling, Bart., of Mansfield, and was left a widower in 1831. – Hallett and Robinson.

 LLOYD, K.H., F.R.S.

entered the Navy, in Sept. 1798, as Midshipman, on board the 64, Capt. Jas. Hardy, under whom, besides sharing in a multiplicity of particular services, he attended the expedition of 1801 to Egypt, where he commanded a boat at the debarkation of the troops in Aboukir Bay on 8 March, witnessed the battles fought on 13 and 21 of the same month, and had the subsequent charge of a djerm employed on the river Nile in keeping up a communication between Rosetta and the Anglo-Turkish shipping. While on the latter service he was intrusted with the care of Madame Menou, who was going to join her husband, the French Commander-in-Chief, at Alexandria. He continued in his djerm on Lake Mareotis until compelled to return to the by the effects of a severe contusion, which his zeal had prevented his attending to when it first occurred. In March, 1802, Mr. Lloyd joined, for a short period, the sloop, Capt. Jas. Watson; and in the following Oct. he became Master’s Mate of the 38, Capts. Jas. Hardy and Robt. Honyman. At the commencement of the late war we find him in