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Rh vessel we find him actively employed in the suppression of piracy in the Archipelago until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 13 July, 1824. His next appointments were – 5 Feb. and 7 Dec. 1825, to the 18 and  48, Capts. Edw. Rich. Williams and Gawen Wm. Hamilton, hoth in the Mediterranean, where he again performed good service against the pirates – and, 24 Oct. 1827, to the 84, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Codrington on the same station. Being advanced, 13 May, 1828, to the command of the bomhb, Capt. Lushington united in the following Oct. in the operations against Morea Castle, and so distinguished himself by his exertions and skill as to obtain the orders of St. Louis of France and the Redeemer of Greece. On 28 Oct. 1829 he was further rewarded with a Post-commission. His next appointment was, 19 Jan. 1839, to the 26, fitting for the West Indies, whence, after nine months of severe illness, he was ordered by Sir Thos. Harvey, the Commander-in-Chief, to be invalided, in Nov. 1840. He has been in command, since 11 Oct. 1845, of the steam-frigate and  84, on the Home station.

Capt. Lushington married, 5 July, 1841, Henrietta, eldest daughter of, now a Lord of the Admiralty, by whom he has issue. – Joseph Woodhead.

 LUTMAN. 

was born 20 Oct. 1790.

This officer entered the Navy, in June, 1804, as Midshipman, on board the 100, Capt. Joseph Sydney Yorke, and in 1806 removed to the  32, Capt. Chas. Malcolm, both ships stationed in the Channel. Joining, next, the 18, Capt. Thos. Fras. Chas. Mainwaring, he served in that sloop at the bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807; and on 25 April, 1808, he assisted in her boats, with those of the 20, commanded by Lieut. Wm. Elliott, at the cutting out, with a loss to the British of only 5 persons wounded, of a convoy of 10 deeply-laden vessels, moored close under the fort of a castle mounting 10 guns, in the harbour of Fladstrand, near the Skawe, defended also by a heavy fire from another battery, as well as from the crews of the vessels assembled on the beach, and made fast to the shore by hawsers. While attached as Master’s Mate, between July, 1809, and July, 1811, to the 16, Capts. John Thicknesse and Jas. Pattison Stewart, we find him commanding a boat, in open day, at the capture of a galliot under a fire of field-pieces and musketry from the sand-hills on the Jutland beach; and also contributing in a very eminent manner, when in the boats under Lieut. Watson, to the preservation from capture of a valuable convoy of transports. On one occasion, while endeavouring to cut several vessels out from the coast of Jutland, the boat he was in upset, and 5 men, with their commanding officer, Lieut. Watson, were unfortunately drowned. Mr. Lutman, who had supported the latter until he was himself nearly exhausted, afterwards succeeded, by swimming to the boat, in saving three of his companions. Being all in the end thrown on shore by the surf, they were made prisoners, but were released on surrendering their prizes. During the period which intervened between his discharge from the, as above, and his confirmation in his present rank 18 Feb. 1815, Mr. Lutman was employed at Home and in South America, for some time as Sub and Acting Lieutenant, on board the hospital-ship, Lieut.-Commander Jas. James, 74, flagship of Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon,  12, Lieut.-Commander Wm. D’Aranda, 42, Capt. Manley Hall Dixon,  32, Capt. Wm. Bowles, and 74, Capt. Rich. Hussey Moubray. His succeeding appointments were – 31 March, 1815, to the 74, Capt. Edw. Brace, employed at the siege of Gaeta, where for nearly 10 weeks he had charge of a division of Sicilian gun-boats – 4 July, 1816, for four months, to the 98, also commanded by Capt. Brace, under whom he was slightly wounded at the battle of Algiers – and, 20 June, 1823, and 23 March, 1827, to the  74 and  80, Capts. Brace and Patrick Campbell, principally employed on the Home station. He has been on half-pay since April, 1828.

Independently of the instance above alluded to, this officer has not less than five times displayed the intrepid humanity of his nature by his exertions in rescuing others from a watery grave. The first example of the kind was in 1810, when, chancing to be on board the 74, he dashed into the sea and saved the life of Mr. Self, the Captain’s Clerk; the second and third, in the course of the same year, on which occasions, being Sub-Lieutenant of the  in South America, he similarly preserved from destruction the lives of the Assistant-Surgeon (Mr. Bryson) and the Captain of the fore-top, by jumping overboard after them at night; the fourth, while in the  at Portsmouth, where, in his anxiety to save a drowning seaman, he broke his arm; and the last, during his servitude in the. He plunged from that ship when at sea, but, although he succeeded in his generous efforts and preserved the life of another man, Jas. Leary, he underwent so much exertion that the result was a severe attack of illness, which reduced him to the necessity of invaliding. He married 12 Nov. 1838.

 LUTWIDGE. 

is third son of the late Henry Lutwidge, Esq., of Holm Rook, co. Cumberland, by Jane, daughter of Rigby Molineux, Esq., of Preston; and nephew of Admiral Skeffington Lutwidge, who commanded the at the occupation of Toulon in 1793, and had his flag on board the same ship at the reduction of Corsica in 1794. His grandfather, Thos. Lutwidge, Esq., an officer in King William’s army, and High-Sheriif for Cumberland in the 12th of George I., married Lucy, daughter of Sir Chas. Hoghton, Bart., of Hoghton Tower, by his wife. Lady Mary Skeffington, eldest daughter of Viscount Massereene. The Commander’s eldest surviving brother, the present Skeffington Lutwidge, Esq., of Holm Rook, is a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Cumberland.

This officer entered the Navy, in June, 1794, as Captain’s Servant, on board the 74, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of his uncle, Rear-Admiral Lutwidge. Becoming Midshipman, in March, 1795, of the 98, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres, he served under that officer in the actions fought, 23 June, 1795, and 14 Feb. 1797, off Ile de Groix and Cape St. Vincent; after which, joining the 40, Capt. Sir Thos. Williams, he co-operated with the King’s troops in an attack made in June, 1798, upon the town of Wexford, where were destroyed 100 large boats and vessels, which the rebels had collected for their escape. He continued in the, cruizing intermediately with much activity, until July, 1800; and on 6 of the following Sept., being at the time on board the , flag-ship of Admiral Milbanke at Spithead, he was made Lieutenant into the store-ship, Capt. John Seater. His next appointments were, in the following Oct., and in May, 1801, and July, 1802, to the, , and frigates, Capts. Edw. Rotheram, Henry Digby, and Philip Wilkinson, all on the Home station; where, in the early part of 1804, he was wrecked, off the coast of France. He was in consequence detained a prisoner of war until May, 1814; on 4 Aug. in which year he joined the 38, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres. He left that frigate, after having served on the Irish and Lisbon stations, in Oct. 1814, and was lastly, from 2 Aug. 1821 until 31 Aug. 1822, employed in the Water Guard. He became a Retired Commander on the Junior List 26 Nov. 1830, and on the Senior 27 March, 1845.

