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Rh the Earl of Durham to Quebec and Her Majesty the Queen Dowager to and from the Mediterranean, besides assisting, in 1840, in the attack upon Beyrout. He subsequently joined the 50, fitting at Portsmouth for the flag of Keai-Admiral Rich. Thomas, and the 120, flag-ship of Sir David Milne at Devonport; and on 16 Feb. 1843 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His succeeding appointments were – 9 Nov. 1843, to the 26, Capt. Chas. Talbot, equipping at Sheerness – 13 Jan. 1844, to the 90, Capt. Nicholas Lockyer, employed as an experimental ship – and, 7 Nov. 1845, to the  120, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Ogle at Portsmouth, and of Sir Fras. Augustus Collier in the Channel. He has been on half-pay since the close of 1846.

Lieut. Moubray married, 16 Dec. 1846, Selina Mary Anna, daughter of J. B. Hooper, Esq., of Abbots Kipton Hall, Huntingdonshire, late M.P. and High-Sheriff for that co. – Hallett and Robinson.

 MOULD. 

is second-cousin of

This officer entered the Navy, 16 Dec. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Boy, on board the 38, Capts. Thos. Twysden and Hon. John Murray, stationed off the coast of Ireland; and between July, 1800, and Jan. 1806, was employed as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, chiefly in the Mediterranean and at Home, on board the, Capt. Jas. Wood,, Capts. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild and Micajah Malbon,, Capt. Henry Manaton Ommanney, , Capts. Albemarle Bertie, Thos. Wells, and Davidge Gould, and, Capt. Hon. Edw. King. In the latter ship, in 1805, we find him once or twice warmly engaged with the invasion flotilla. On leaving her, as above, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the cutter, Lieut.-Commander Chas. Fred. Napier, in the North Sea. He was confirmed, 12 May, 1807, into the 18, Capt. Hon. Warwick Lake, whom he accompanied to the West Indies; and he was afterwards appointed – 21 June, 1808, to the  sloop, Capt. De Courcy, in which vessel he returned to England – 15 Dec. 1808, to the ’s 64, Capts. Fras. Wm. Austen, Edw. Brace, Chas. Grant, and John Ferris Devonshire, employed at first in escorting convoy to the East Indies and China, and next, until Nov. 1812, at the defence of Cadiz – and, 10 July, 1813, and (after eight months of half-pay) 28 April, 1815, to the 74, Capts. Henry Vansittart and Fred. Warren, and 74, Capt. Wm. Henry Webley, both attached to the force in the Channel. He was paid off from the in Aug. 1815; and awarded the rank of Commander on the Retired List 10 Feb. 1843.

Commander Mould was left a widower 26 Oct. 1845.

 MOULD. 

was born 6 April, 1814. He is second-cousin of

This officer entered the Navy, 13 Aug. 1828, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 120, Capt. Hon. Geo. Poulett, bearing the flag at Chatham of Sir Benj. Hallowell; and in Aug. 1829 joined the 74, Capt. Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, in the Mediterranean. In Aug. 1831 he became Midshipman of the 78, Capts. Jas. Hillyar, Hon. Donald Hugh Mackay, and Wm. Elliott, with whom he continued employed off Lisbon and again in the Mediterranean until Nov. 1836 – the last two years in the capacity of Mate. He then removed to the 84, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise, on the station last named; and after further serving for four years and six months in North America and the West Indies on board the 16, Capts. Horatio Stopford Nixon and Hon. Keith Stewart, and for five months in the 110, flag-ship of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen in the Mediterranean, he was promoted, 7 March, 1842, to the rank of Lieutenant, and re-appointed to the latter ship. He has since become attached in succession – 19 April, 1842, to the 84, Capt. Dan. Pring, also in the Mediterranean – 6 Oct. 1843, to the gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings – and, 4 March, 1845, to the 84, Capt. Fairfax Moresby, now employed on particular service.

 MOURILYAN. 

entered the Navy, 29 July, 1798, as L.M., on board the 74, Capts. Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, Wm. Mansell, Robt, Jackson, and Rich. Curry. In that ship, in which he continued until paid off in Sept. 1802, he assisted as Midshipman at the defence of St. Jean d’Acre in 1799, and took part, in 1801, in the operations in Egypt. In March, 1803, he rejoined Sir W. S. Smith, as Master’s Mate, in the 50, on the North Sea station, where, in 1804, he was severely wounded while in the act of boarding a Dutch gun-boat. For this he received a pecuniary reward from the Patriotic Society. After serving as Acting-Lieutenant in the ’s 64, Capt. John Temple, and again with Sir W. S. Smith, as Master’s Mate and Acting-Lieutenant, in the 50, and  74, he was confirmed a Lieutenant of the latter ship by commission dated 31 Jan. 1806. In the spring of the same year, besides witnessing the surrender of the island of Capri, he joined in an attack upon the town of Scalea, where, in command of the ’s launch, he took possession of the castle, and drove the French from their guns, 2 36-pounders, which, together with 22 barrels of powder, he contrived, through great exertion, to bring off. During the remainder of the war we find him serving with his patron on the Brazilian and Mediterranean stations in the 80, and  120; and also commanding, from 29 Dec. 1809 until 25 April, 1811, and from 7 Oct. 1813 until 26 March, 1814, the  hired cutter, and  armed transport. The was sunk in the Baltic in a severe action with a flotilla of Danish gun-boats. On 6 April, 1839, Lieut. Mourilyan was invested with the rank of Commander on the Retired List. He had been admitted to the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital 31 Aug. 1835.

 MOWBRAY. 

entered the Royal Naval College 15 Nov. 1805; and embarked, 23 Dec. 1808, as Midshipman, on board the 38, Capt. John Hatley; with whom, after serving for upwards of 12 months at the Cape of Good Hope, he returned to England, in July, 1810, in the  64. Between the latter period and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 2 Feb. 1813, we find him employed on the Home station in the 80, Capt. Sir John Gore,  74, Capt. Edw. Leveson Gower,, flagship of Sir Roger Curtis, and brig, Capt. Augustus Baldwin. His last appointment was, 3 Nov. 1813, to the 38, Capt. Sir Thos. John Cochrane; in which ship he beheld the attacks upon Washington and Baltimore in 1814, and participated in the operations on the coast of Georgia.

He was placed on half-pay 1 Sept. 1815. Fred. Dufaur.

 MOXON. 

entered the Navy, 23 Sept. 1803 as Ordinary, on board the 64, Capt. Wm. Mitchell, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Bartholomew Sam. Rowley at the Nore; served as Midshipman, from March, 1804, to May, 1805, in the 64, Capts. Rich. King and Jas. Newman Newman, and 74, Capt. R. King, on the