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934 employed at first in the Mediterranean and afterwards on the coast of Africa, where he died.

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, born in 1781, is second surviving son of John Joshua, first Earl of Carysfort, K.P., hy his first wife, Elizabeth, only daughter of the Right Hon. Sir Wm. Osborne, Bart., of Newtown, co. Tipperary; and brother of the present Earl. His half-sister Elizabeth (daughter of the first Earl, by his second marriage with the third sister of the first Marquess of Buckingham) was the wife of the late Capt. Wm. Wells, R.N. (1809). His eldest brother, William Allen, Lord Proby, a Captain R.N., was in command of the 20, when that ship, in March, 1800, was taken possession of by her mutinous crew and carried into Camaret Bay; and died of yellow fever at Surinam in 1804, while commanding the  frigate. The Rear-Admiral is a distant cousin of.

This officer entered the Navy, 21 March, 1798, as Midshipman, on board the 74, Capt. Edw. Berry, bearing the flag of Sir Horatio Nelson, under whom he fought at the battle of the Nile, 1 Aug. following. When serving next with the same officer in the 80, he assisted, while at the blockade of Malta, at the capture, 18 Feb. 1800, of Le Généreux 74, and Ville de Marseilles armed store-ship, and, on 31 March, after a desperate conflict, in which the  (in company with the  64, and  36) sustained a loss of 8 men killed and 64, including himself, wounded, of Le Guillaume Tell of 84 guns and 1000 men, flagship of Rear-Admiral Decrès. In 1801 he was present, we believe, in the same ship under Lord Keith during the operations in Egypt. After a further attachment to the frigate, Capt. Robt. Campbell, 36, Capt. Hon. Philip Wodehouse (which ship was wrecked, 31 May, 1803, near Cape St. Vincent), and  100, bearing the flag of Lord Nelson, he was made Lieutenant, 24 Oct. 1804, into the  32, Capt. Ross Donnelly. Removing, in May, 1805, to the 98, Capt. Thos. Fras. Fremantle, he was afforded an opportunity, 21 Oct. in the same year, of sharing in the glories of Trafalgar. He obtained command, 15 Aug. 1806, of the sloop; was Posted, 28 Nov. ensuing, into the  54 and subsequently appointed – 7 Jan. 1807, to the  32, in the Mediterranean – in 1808, for two years, to, we are informed, the  32, employed in the Channel, North Sea, and Baltic – and, 8 June, 1813, and 3 Dec. 1814, to the  and  38’s, stationed at the Cape of Good Hope and in the Mediterranean. He paid the off in July, 1816, and has not been since afloat. He attained Flag-rank 23 Nov. 1841.

Rear-Admiral Proby sat in Parliament for co. Wicklow in 1812-18 and 20. He married, 5 May, 1818, Isabella, daughter of Hon. Hugh Howard, and niece of the Earl of Wicklow, by whom, who died 22 Jan. 1836, he has issue four sons and four daughters. His second son, Granville Leveson, is an officer in the Army; and his second daughter, Elizabeth Emma, is the wife of Lord Claude Hamilton, M.P., brother of the Marquess of Abercorn. – Joseph Woodhead.

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was born 22 Aug. 1785, at Stratford, St. Mary, co. Suffolk. He is a distant cousin of.

This officer entered the Navy, 22 Aug. 1799, as a Supernumerary, on board the sloop, Capt. Chas. Tinling, lying in Yarmouth Roads, for the purpose of joining the 28, into which ship he was received, 14 Sept. following, from the  50, bearing the flag of Sir Andw. Mitchell, at the time employed in fitting out the Dutch fleet that had just surrendered. After serving in the up the river Elbe and in the North Sea, he removed, with Capt. Winthrop, as Midshipman, in Feb. 1800, to the  32. Prior to that ship being wrecked, a catastrophe which took place in Vigo Bay 6 Sept. in the same year, he cruized with much activity and assisted in landing the troops during the expedition to Ferrol. On his return to England in the 98, Capt. John Child Purvis, Mr. Proby Joined the  74, Capt. Sir Edw. Pellew, under whom he served at the blockade of Brest, and was for eight months, including the severe winter of 1801-2, employed in watching the enemy’s squadron at Rochefort. The being paid off at the peace, he was next, in June, 1803, received on board the  74, Capts. John Clarke Searle and Geo. Reynolds, attached, latterly under the flag of Rear-Admiral Collingwood, to the Channel fleet, with which he continued until again, in 1804, placed under the orders of Capt. Winthrop in the 64, stationed off Boulogne, where he remained for a period of 12 months, and came into frequent contact with the enemy’s batteries and flotilla. Being then, in April, 1805, transferred to the 74, Capt. Lawrence Wm. Halsted, he took part, 22 Aug. following, in Admiral Hon. Wm. Cornwallis’ attack on the French fleet close in with Brest harbour. He was also, 4 Nov. in the same year, present at Sir Richard Strachan’s capture of the four French line-of-battle ships escaped from Trafalgar (for which he received the rating of Master’s Mate); and besides witnessing the surrender, 13 March, 1806, of the Marengo 80, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule, he went in pursuit of the celebrated Rochefort squadron to the West Indies and Newfoundland. Towards the close of 1806, having returned to England and passed his examination, he proceeded, in the 74, Capt. Fras. Pickmore, to Barbadoes, and thence, in the frigate, to Jamaica, where he joined, on promotion, the  64, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres. After assisting at the capture of various slave-vessels in the Gulf of Florida, and cruizing off the city of San Domingo, he was nominated, 21 May, 1808, Acting-Lieutenant of the Veteran; and was shortly afterwards sent in command of the schooner to assist in rescuing the guns and stores of the  frigate, which had been wrecked on Barebush Key. Having been advanced, at home, to the rank of Lieutenant by a commission bearing date 23 Feb. 1808, he became, in Aug. of that year, Senior of the sloop, Capts. Gordon and Lennock, also in the West Indies, whence, however, he soon invalided. His subsequent appointments were – 3 May, 1809, to the 18, Capt. Fras. Beaufort, employed in co-operation with the patriots on the north coast of Spain, also in escorting convoy to Quebec and other ports of Canada, and on the Downs and Jamaica stations – 30 Dec. 1809, to the 18, Capt. Peter John Douglas, in the West Indies – next, as a Supernumerary, to the  64, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Bartholomew Sam. Rowley at Jamaica – 21 March, 1810, to the again, Capts. Henry Boys, Jas. Stirling, and Geo. Moubray, from which vessel he invalided in Sept. 1812 – 4 June, 1813, to the 10, Capt. Robt. Riddell (now Carre), stationed off the Texel and in the North Sea – 28 Feb. 1814, to the 18, Capt. Thos. Renwick, under whom he cruized on the latter station and in the Baltic, and witnessed the evacuation of Anholdt – and 5 May, 1815, for nearly four months, to the 100, Capt. Chas. Inglis, lying at Portsmouth. In the, , , and , Mr. Proby discharged the duties of First-Lieutenant. His prompt and judicious conduct in 1810, in rescuing the when nearly wrecked in the Gulf of Florida, was such as to call forth from the President of the Court-martial, which took place in consequence, a very gratifying expression of the sense entertained by the Court of his exertions. When in the same vessel at the Havana, he was ordered by Capt. Boys