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Rh in St. Domingo. His appointments, after he left the, were – 9 March, 1794, to the 18, Capt. F. Gardner, on the Jamaica, station – 20 April, 1795, and 6 April, 1796, to the  74, Capt. Thos. Wells and 98, flagship of Rear-Admiral Hon. Wm. Waldegraye, both in the Mediterranean – 22 Feb. 1798, to the 64, bearing the flag of the officer last mentioned at Newfoundland – and, 29 Aug. 1800, to the  80, flag-ship of Lord Keith, again in the Mediterranean. In the he fought in Hotham’s first partial action 14 March, 1795; in the  he took part in the action off Cape St. Vincent 14 Feb. 1797, and assisted, in command of the launch, in Nelson’s bombardment of Cadiz; and in the  he obtained the Turkish gold medal for his services on shore during the operations of 1801 in Egypt. On 8 Oct. in the latter year he was promoted to the command of the sloop, also on the Mediterranean station, where, in 1802, he removed to the  brig. In Aug. and Dec. 1804 (he had left the  in 1803), he assumed command, in succession, of the  bomb and  18; in the latter of which vessels we find him recommended by Rear-Admiral Murray to the protection of the Admiralty as “an active and very zealous officer” for his conduct during the operations in the Rio de la Plata, whence he was sent home with the naval and military despatches announcing the disastrous result of the attack upon Buenos Ayres 5 July, 1807. He was advanced to Post-rank 13j March, 1809, and was lastly, from 11 Dec. 1812 until 4 June, 1814, employed at Chatham in the 32, as Flag-Captain to Rear-Admiral Thos. Surridge. We may add that for a short time in 1802 he acted as Captain of the frigate at Malta. He accepted his present rank 1 Oct. 1846.

Rear-Admiral Prevost married, first, in 1798, Frances, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Haultain, Rector of Weybridge; and that lady dying 1 Feb. 1813, secondly, in Feb. 1814, Frances, only daughter of the late Lewis de Teissier, Esq., of Woodcote Park, co. Surrey. By his first wife he had issue one son (, now a Commander R.N.) and three daughters; and, by his second two sons (the elder, also a Commander R.N.) and three daughters. – Hallett and Robinson.

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is the only son of by his first marriage. This officer passed his examination in 1829; and obtained his commission 10 Dec. 1835. His succeeding appointments were – 30 Dec. 1835, as Additional Lieutenant, to the 120, flagship of Sir Josias Rowley in the Mediterranean – 30 May, 1836, to the  74, Capts. Sir Thos. Fellowes and Fairfax Moresby, employed on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations – 20 April, 1840, as Senior (shortly after the latter ship had been paid off) to the 16, Capts. Wm. Dawson and Chas. Cooke Otway, attached to the force in North America and the West Indies – and, 9 Dec. 1842, to the 120, bearing the flag at Portsmouth of Sir Chas. Rowley, to whom he became Flag-Lieutenant 1 Dec. 1843. He was advanced to his present rank 22 Oct. 1844; and, since 4 April, 1845, has been employed as Second Captain of the 50, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sam. Hood Inglefield on the S.E. coast of America and in the East Indies.

He married, 18 Oct. 1842, Ellen Mary, eldest daughter of  – Hallett and Robinson.

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, born 27 Dec. 1814, in Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square, is the eldest son of by his second marriage.

This officer entered the Royal Naval College 8 Feb.1828; and embarked in Nov. 1829, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 46, Capts. Gawen Wm. Hamilton and Sam. Roberts, with whom he served on the South American and Lisbon stations, the greater part of the time as Midshipman, until paid off in June, 1833. In the following Aug. he joined the 78, Capt. Donald Hugh Mackay, also attached to the force off Lisbon; and in the spring of 1834, having passed his examination, he became Mate of the  16, Capt. John Balfour Maxwell, in the West Indies. Returning thence in June, 1835, he was next, between Feb. 1836 and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant 23 Nov. 1841, employed on the Mediterranean and Home stations in the 18, Capt. Geo. Rodney Mundy, 36, Capt. Dan. Pring, 24, Capt. Fred. Thos. Michell, and 76, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave. In the he served in 1836 on the south coast of Spain; and in the  be participated in the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria. His appointments, in the capacity of Lieutenant, were – 30 Nov. 1841, to the 50, Capt. Wm. Walpole, fitting for the Mediterranean – in 1844, on his return to England, to the command of a station in the Coast Guard – and, 12 and 24 Sept. 1844, to the and  sloops, Capts. Thos. Fras. Birch and Edm. Wilson. For the gallant manner in which, in the boats of the latter vessel (of which he was at the time Senior), he boarded and carried a slaver on the coast of Africa, he was promoted to the rank he now holds 30 Aug. 1845. He has since been on half-pay.

Commander Prevost married, at Malta, 10 Jan. 1844, Miss E. Handy, of the co. Westmeath.

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is brother of.

This officer entered the Navy 7 Nov. 1810, on board the sloop, commanded by his brother, Capt. Geo. Price, under whom he served for some time on the Cadiz station. Towards the close of the war we find him employed in the Baltic in the 18, Capt. Chas. Bertram, and on the Dutch coast in the 32, Capt. Jas. Pattison Stewart; and, at the commencement of the peace, stationed in the 18, Capt. John Macpherson Ferguson, on the Scottish coast, and in the  sloop, Capt. Sir Wm. Saltonstall Wiseman, at St. Helena, for the detention of Buonaparte. In the two ships last mentioned he held the rating of Master’s Mate. He was afterwards for five years employed in the West Indies as Mate and Acting- Lieutenant in the, , and – the latter commanded by Capt. Geo. Vernon Jackson. On 6 Dec. 1824 he was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant. He exchanged about the same period into the 18, Capt. John Stoddart; and in June, 1825, returned to England as First of the, with a constitution much impaired from the effects of yellow fever. He has since been on half-pay.

In 1827 Lieut. Price was presented with the freedom of the city of Hereford. He married, 18 Sept. 1838, Mary, second daughter of the late Rev. Chas. Taylor, D.D., Chancellor of the diocese of Hereford, by whom he has issue one daughter.

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, born about 1790, is descended paternally from the Prices of Bulch Trebanne, co. Caermarthen; and maternally from the Powells of Abersenny, co. Brecknock.

This officer entered the Navy, 1 Jan. 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 64, Capts. Thos. Bertie and Geo. M‘Kinley, and on 2 April following was present in the action off Copenhagen. In July, 1802, he joined the 74, Capts. Philip Turner Bover, Murray Maxwell, Henry Matson, and Thos. Graves, employed at first as a guard-ship at Portsmouth, and afterwards under the broad 