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920 , late Governor-General of India, he removed in succession, in the early part of 1806, to the 38, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore E. W. C. R. Owen, and  40, Capt. John Wentworth Loring – the latter stationed off L’Orient. He was made Lieutenant, 13 Sept. 1806, into the sloop, Capts. Jas. Boxer, Hon. Granville Leveson Proby, and Thos. Whinyates, attached to the force in the Mediterranean; and was subsequently appointed – 17 Dec. 1807, to the 18, Capt. Alex. Rich. Mackenzie, under whom he assisted at the capture of Flushing, and took part in all the operations of 1809 in the Scheldt – 19 May, 1813, after about three years of half-pay, to the 40, Capt. Henry Hope, stationed on the coast of North America, where, until obliged by ill-health to invalid in Sept. 1814, he was most actively employed, assisted in the boats at the capture of the Meteor schooner of 3 guns and 31 men, and contributed to the reduction of the islands in Passamaquoddy Bay – 16 June and 22 Sept. 1815, to the  120, and  74, Capts. Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson and Thos. Alexander, lying at Portsmouth and Plymouth – 31 Jan. 1818, to the command, for three years, of the Revenue vessel, in which he cruized with much success, and was in occasional attendance on George III. during his aquatic excursions – 20 March, 1823, to the command (at the particular request of her constructor Capt. John Hayes) of the cutter, of about 160 tons, and 10 guns, employed in protecting the oyster fisheries near Jersey, and, with advantage, in the suppression of smuggling – and, 4 Oct. 1825, to the  yacht, Capt. Sir Michael Seymour. While on the books of the latter vessel he was intrusted with the command of the tender, and ordered to coiivey the Mexican Charge d’Affaires, Senor Rocafuerte, with a treaty of commerce from England to New Spain, where he was presented by the Government of that republic with a table-service of plate. On his return home with a valuable freight in the spring of 1827, he was lent with the crew of the to the  yacht, Capt. Sir Wm. Hoste; in which vessel we find him escorting the Queen of Würtemberg to England, and accompanying the Lord High Admiral and his consort on several marine trips; at the termination whereof he was presented with a Commander’s commission bearing date 26 June, 1827. From 6 April, 1831, until the commencement of 1834, he officiated as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard at Aldborough – his last appointment.

Commander Powney was nominated a K.H. 1 Jan. 1837. He married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of the late Capt, Carleton, of H.M. 16th Foot, and niece of the late Lord Carleton, Chief Justice of Ireland; and, secondly, in Sept. 1838, Isabella Carleton, eldest daughter of the late Wm. Willie, Esq., Purser and Paymaster R.N. (1798), by whom he has issue a son and two daughters. – J. Hinxman.

 POWYS. 

is second son of the Rev. Fred. Powys, by Mary, only daughter of Edw. Thoroton Gould, Esq., sister of Henry, late Lord Grey de Ruthyn, and aunt of the present Lady Grey de Ruthyn, Marchioness of Hastings. His grandfather, Thos. Powys, Esq., M.P. for Northamptonshire in 1774, was elevated to the peerage 26 Oct. 1797, as Baron Lilford, of Lilford, in that co. One of his uncles, Charles, an officer in the R.N., died 13 Aug. 1804, in his twenty-first year; and another, Henry, Captain in the 83rd Regt., died of his wounds in the attack of Picurina, before Badajoz, in April, 1812.

This officer entered the Royal Naval College 5 Sept. 1822; passed his examination in 1829; and was advanced to his present rank 31 Oct. 1831. His subsequent appointments were, for short periods – 1 Dec. 1832, to the 46, Capt. Sam. Roberts, fitting for service off Lisbon – 18 June, 1833, to the 50, commanded by the same officer in the Channel – 26 Sept. 1833, to the  26, Capt. Wm. Jones, on the North America and West India station – 18 June, 1836, to the 46, Capt. Sir John Strutt Peyton, attached to the force in the West Indies – 25 July, 1837, to the  74, Capt. Wm. Wilmott Henderson, at Lisbon – and, 15 Nov. 1841, as First, to the troop-ship, Capt. Chas. Frederick, in the East Indies. He has been on half-pay since the close of 1842. – Joseph Woodhead.

 POYNTER. 

is second son of Jas. Melthurst Poynter, Esq., at one time a Commander in the Hon.E.I.Co.’s mercantile marine, and subsequently Captain of the Walmer troop of Yeomanry Cavalry, and Captain of Sandown Castle, who died 26 Jan. 1835, by Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Jas. Peck, Esq., Surgeon, of Deal, co. Kent.

This officer entered the Navy, 28 Aug. 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 36, in which ship, commanded by the present Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, he came into frequent contact with the Bologne flotilla. After serving for 14 months with Captain Owen in the 74, attached to the force up the East Scheldt, he removed as Midshipman, in May, 1814, to the  36, Capt. Matthew Smith, under whom he escorted the Allied Sovereigns to England, returned with the King of Prussia to Calais, and assisted, subsequently to the battle of Waterloo, in blockading two French frigates lying ready for sea in the port of Brest, suspected of an intention of conveying the person of Napoleon Bonaparte to America. While on the books, from Aug. 1815 to Nov. 1817, of the, , and 74’s, commanded at Sheerness by Capt. Jas. Walker, Mr. Poynter served twice with his former Captain, Owen, in the yacht. He joined next the 44, Capt. Wm. Henry Shirreff, and, sailing in that ship for the Pacific, was there, in Dec. 1819, sent as Mate (he had passed his examination in Nov. 1817) and second in command of the hired brig, Master-Commander Edw. Bransfield, to ascertain the character of a tract of land then just discovered, and now known under the name of “New South Shetland.” On leaving the, in July, 1821, he became Acting-Master of the sloop, Capt. Wm. Finlaison, on the coast of Africa. In the following Nov. he removed, as Acting Second-Master, to the 42, Capts. Thos. Graham and Fred. Edw. Vernon (now Harcourt), again on the South American station; where, from Sept. 1822 until his return to England in July, 1823, he officiated as Master’s Mate and Acting-Lieutenant in the 10, Capts. Jas. Bance and Thos. Porter. He was confirmed in his present rank on 26 of the month last mentioned. His appointments have since been in succession – 9 Jan. 1824, to the Coast Guard, in which service he continued as Supernumerary Lieutenant of the 74, and  42, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Wm. Jas. Mingaye – 22 April in the latter year, to the Coast Guard – 21 March, 1844, to the command of the Revenue-vessel – 20 Nov. 1846, again to the Coast Guard – and 22 April, 1847, to the command of the, another Revenue-cruizer.

Lieut. Poynter married, in 1833, Louisa, only daughter of John Illenden, Esq., by whom he has a large family. – Joseph Woodhead.

 POYNTZ. 

was born 14 April, 1785. This officer entered the Royal Naval Academy 2 Feb. 1798; and embarked, in Dec. 1800, as A.B., on board 24, Capts. John Clarke Searle, Philip Beaver, and Alex. Becher; under the first-mentioned of whom he assisted, 25 July, 1801, at the capture, off Alexandria, of a French corvette of 10 guns, with specie on board to the amount of