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Rh This officer entered the Navy 31 May, 1824; passed his examination in 1830; and obtained his first commission 1 May, 1834. His subsequent appointments were – 21 Nov. 1834, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the 46, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Patrick Campbell at the Cape of Good Hope – 1 March, 1835, to the  38, Capt. Edw. Henry A’Court, fitting at – 18 May following, to the  50, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry, on the Mediterranean station – 29 Nov. 1836, and 29 July, 1837, to the  104 and  72, in which ships, stationed at Portsmouth and in the East Indies, he served as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Fred. Lewis Maitland until the death of that officer in Nov. 1839-27 Oct. 1840, to the 104, Capt. Thos Forrest, fitting at Plymouth – and, 6 Aug. 1841, to the  72, equipping for the flag of Sir Chas. Adam, Commander-in-Chief in North America and the West Indies. He attained the rank of Commander 23 Nov. 1841. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.

 OGLE, Bart. 

, born 24 May, 1775, is eldest son of Sir Chaloner Ogle (who received the honour of Knighthood and was created a Baronet for his professional services, and died Senior Admiral in the British Navy 27 Aug. 1816) by Hester, youngest daughter and co-heir of the Right Rev. John Thomas, Lord Bishop of Winchester. He is brother of Major Thos. Ogle, of the 58th Regt., who was killed in the boats at the landing in Egypt in 1801; brother-in-law of the present Lord Dacre; uncle of ; and a relative of Sir Chaloner Ogle, Kt., who died Admiral of the Fleet in 1751. One of his father’s sisters was mother of the present Rear-Admiral De Starck; and another grandmother of the late Earl Grey.

This officer entered the Navy about 1788, as Captain’s Servant, on board the 44, Capt. John Nicholson Inglefield, with whom, in the same ship and the  50, he made three trips to the coast of Africa. In Sept. 1791 he became Midshipman of the 74, Capt. Sir Andrew Snape Douglas, lying at Portsmouth; and he was next toi two years employed, at Halifax and at Home, in the  frigate, Capt. Fisher,  74, Capt. Albemarle Bertie, and  98, Capt. Wm. Albany Otway. On 14 Nov. 1793 he was made Lieutenant into the 44, Capt. Craven, attached to the force in the West Indies; on which station, in the ensuing Dec. and Jan., he successively joined the  74, Commodore Chas. Thompson, and, a second time, the, bearing the flag of Sir John Jervis. During the proximate operations against the French islands he commanded a boat at the capture, under a heavy fire of great guns and musketry, of two schooners lying at anchor, with others, near Maran, Martinique; where he assisted at the taking of Pigeon Island, was intrusted with the command of a party of seamen landed at Point Negro to co-operate with the army, and remained on shore until after the surrender of Fort Bourbon. At the siege of Guadeloupe he again commanded a division of seamen, and greatly distinguished himself by his conduct at the storming of Fort Fleur d’Epée. Towards the close of May, 1794, he was nominated Acting-Captain of the 44. He was made Commander, 21 May following, into the sloop; appointed next to the ; and, on 11 Jan. 1796, posted into  frigate, in the Mediterranean. During the after part of the French revolutionary war he commanded the and, of 32 guns each, and  40, on the Jamaica station, and again in the Mediterranean. While in the off Cadiz he acquired the approbation of Sir John Jervis by the manner in which he repeated that officer’s signals. In the we find him effecting the capture of a Genoese privateer mounting 10 guns, also of a Spanish armed polacre, and of other vessels; and, in the, earning the Turkish gold medal for his services during the Egyptian campaign. His subsequent appointments were – 1 April, 1805, to the frigate, fitting for the Mediterranean – 19 June, 1806, to the  yacht, in which he remained a period of exactly nine years – 26 Aug. 1815, to the  74, stationed in the Channel – and, 20 Nov. following and 20 Jan. 1816, to the  84 and  74, lying at Plymouth and Portsmouth. The latter ship he left in the following Sept. As Rear-Admiral, a rank he attained 12 Aug. 1819, Sir Chas. Ogle commanded-in-chief on the North American station from 27 April, 1827, until 14 July, 1830. He became a Vice-Admiral 22 July, 1830; rose to the rank of full Admiral 23 Nov. 1841; and since 30 Sept. 1845 has held the chief command at Portsmouth. Sir Chas. Ogle is President of the Royal Naval Benevolent Society.

He married, first, 22 April, 1802, Charlotte Margaret, sister of Henry, third Viscount Gage, and of the present Admiral Sir Wm. Hall Gage, G.C.H., and daughter of the late General Hon. Thos. Gage, Commander-in-Chief of his Majesty’s forces in North America during the first American war. By that lady, who died in 1814, he had issue one son, Chaloner, formerly a Captain in the Army, and two daughters. He married, secondly, 4 Sept. 1820, Letitia, daughter of Sir Wm. Burroughs, Bart., by whom he had issue another son. Being again left a widower 13 Nov. 1832, he married a third time, 10 April, 1834, Mary-Anne, daughter of Geo. Cary, Esq., of Tor Abbey, co. Devon, and relict of John Dalton, jun., Esq., of Thurnham Hall, co. Lancaster, and of Sir John Hayford Thorold, Bart. The last Lady Ogle died 4 Feb. 1842. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 OGLE. 

, born 27 Sept. 1814, is second son of the Rev. Jas. Ogle, M.A., Rector of Bishop’s Waltham, and Vicar of Crondall, by Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Edm. Poulter, Prebendary of Winchester. He is nephew of ; and brother-in-law of the Marquis Gentili, of Naples. His youngest brother, Edmund, is in the Royal Engineers.

This officer entered the Navy 28 May, 1827; passed his examination in 1834; and obtained his first commission 6 Sept. 1838. His succeeding appointments were – 26 Jan. 1839, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the 104, bearing the flag of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford in the Mediterranean – 9 March, 1840, to the 72, Capt. Wm. Wilmott Henderson, by whom, prior to witnessing the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, he was highly lauded for the bravery he evinced in partial command of the boats in a successful attempt made, 2 Oct., to remove a quantity of powder from the castle of Beyrout – 22 Sept. 1841 (soon after the latter ship had been paid off) to the 36, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, fitting for the East Indies – and, 11 April, 1844, to the command, on that station, of the  brig. He attained his present rank 8 June, 1846; and since 15 Jan. 1847 has been officiating as Second-Captain of the  120 and  100, flag-ships at Portsmouth of his uncle Sir Chas. Ogle.

 OGLE. 

entered the Navy 25 Jan. 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, to whom, on removing to the  74, he officiated as Aide-de-Camp during the operations connected with the Walcheren expedition. With the exception of a few weeks passed in the early part of 1812 in the 74, also commanded by Lord Beauclerk, he continued to serve with that nobleman and the late Sir Pulteney Malcolm in the  until June, 1815. He was often in consequence detached against the enemy on the coast of France, and was