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944 Edw. Lookyer, Esq., of Plymouth, by whom he has issue. – Joseph Woodhead.

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entered the Navy 5 May, 1823; passed his examination 2 June, 1830; and on 23 Nov. 1841, at which period he had been serving for a few months in the Mediterranean as Mate of the Steamer, Lieut.-Commander John Evans, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His succeeding appointments were – 21 April, 1842, to the 26, Capt. Christopher Wyvill, fitting at Chatham – 23 July, 1842, to the  16, Capt. Wm. Smyth, at the Cape of Good Hope, where he remained about 12 months – 22 Aug. 1844, as Additional, to the 84, flag-ship of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen in the Mediterranean – and 30 May, 1846, soon after his return home, to the 22, Capt. Thos. Matthew Chas. Symonds, fitting at Devonport. He left the latter vessel in a few weeks, and has since been on half-pay. – Frederic Dufaur.



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passed his examination 5 Oct. 1841; and served as Mate in the 92, Capt. Robt. Maunsell, gunnery-ship, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, brigantine, Lieut.-Commanders Godolphin Jas. Burslem and John Thos. Nott, 12, Capt. Fred. Patten, and brig, Lieut.-Commander Graham Ogle, on the Mediterranean, Home, and East India stations. While in the vessel last-mentioned he accompanied Sir Thos. John Cochrane in an expedition against the Sultan of Borneo in July, 1846; and on 8 of that month was attached to the 6th and 7th companies of small-arm men at the capture and destruction of the enemy’s forts and batteries on the river Brune. Between the 10th and 16th he was employed under Capt. Geo. Rodney Mundy (whose official notice he attracted by the attention he displayed to his duties) in ascending different branches of the stream, and in marching, despite many impediments, into the interior of the country in a fruitless attempt to obtain possession of the Sultan’s person. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by commission bearing date 8 June, 1846; and has been since serving, still in the East Indies, as Additional in the 72, and  50, flag-ships of Rear-Admirals Sir T. J. Cochrane and Sam. Hood Inglefield, and as Second-Lieutenant in the steam-sloop, of 350 horse-power, Capt. Thos. Henry Mason. His appointment to the Nov. 1847.

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entered the Navy, 13 April, 1813, as Third-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. Sir Home Popham and Wm. Butterfleld, under the former of whom he escorted the Earl of Moira as Governor-General to India. While serving next, between Aug. 1814 and Oct. 1816, in the 74 and  104, both commanded by Capt. Edw. Brace, he assisted, in the former ship, at the siege of Gacta, and was present in the under the flag of Rear-Admiral David Milne at the bombardment of Algiers. He was subsequently, from Nov. 1817 until Aug. 1820, employed in the West Indies on board the 44, flag-ship of Sir Home Popham, and on 28 Dec. in the latter year was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. He has since been on half-pay.

 QUIN. 

entered the Navy, 2 Nov. 1804, as Midshipman, on board the 74, Capts. Edw. Griffith and Matt. Henry Scott; and, on 22 July, 1805, was present in Sir Robt. Calder’s action with the combined fleets off Cape Finisterre. Removing in March, 1807, to the 74, Capt. Saml. Hood Linzee, he enacted the part of Master’s Mate in the ensuing expedition against Copenhagen; after which, in Dec. of the same year, he joined the 74, Capts. Edw. Griffith and John West, on the Mediterranean station; where, in Dec. 1811, we find him assisting in a boat with only 10 men, at the capture of a French xebec of 6 guns and 43 men. He attained the rank of Lieutenant 16 July, 1812; and was afterwards appointed in that capacity – 22 Oct. 1812, to the 18, Capts. JohnWm. Andrew, Jas. Black, and Hon. Fred. Noel, in which vessel, employed principally on the east coast of the Adriatic, he continued until Sept. 1814 – 10 Feb. 1815, to the 16, Capt. Wm. M‘Kenzie Godfrey, with whom he served for nearly 17 months in the Mediterranean – 11 Feb. 1818, to the  18, Capt. Jas. Hanway Plumridge, fitting for St. Helena, whence he invalided in July, 1819 – 20 Oct. 1820 and 6 Dec. 1821, to the 18, Capts. Armar Lowry Corry and Robt. Gore, and 60, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, both in the East Indies – and, 14 April, 1823, as Senior, a few months after his return to England, to the  46, Capt. Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer, equipping for the Mediterranean. While serving in the Mr. Quin commanded the boats of that sloop, in conjunction with those of the  frigate, at the capture and destruction of the tower of St. Cataldo (the strongest between Brindisi and Otranto), containing a telegraph, 3 guns and 3 swivels, 21 Dec. 1812. In April, 1813, having pursued an enemy’s convoy into the bay of Boscaline, the was there for two days critically engaged with a large number of gun-boats, whose fire was strengthened by that of a body of musketeers and several heavy guns from the shore. She at length, after having destroyed six of the gunboats and eight of the merchantmen, succeeded in warping herself out, but in a very shattered condition, 5 of her people being killed and 20 wounded, and her hull and rigging much injured. On 18 Aug. in the same year Mr. Quin served with the boats of the, , and , and was mentioned in the highest terms for his conduct at the destruction, under a heavy fire of round shot and musketry, of two batteries situated on commanding points at the entrance of the Boco di Cattaro. He had, in the course of the preceding month, commanded the batteries at the capture of Mezzo, an island near Ragusa, defended by 5 long 9-pounders, a 5½ inch howitzer, and 60 men; as he subsequently did, in Dec. 1813, at the taking of Trieste and of the strong fortress of Zara. On 31 Jan. 1824, being then on board the, he contributed to the utter defeat of the Tripoli Algerine corvette of 18 guns and 100 men; and on the night of 23 May following, he contrived, with her boats under his orders, to effect the brilliant destruction of a 16-gun brig, moored in a position of extraordinary strength alongside the walls of the fortress of Bona, in which was a garrison of about 400 soldiers, who from cannon and musket kept up a tremendous fire almost perpendicularly on the deck. “I have great pleasure,” observes Capt. Spencer in his official account of the latter affair addressed to Sir Harry Burrard Neale, the Commander-in-Chief, “in adding, that notwithstanding so very different a return might have been expected, I have only to report a few men hurt by severe contusions and none killed, chiefly to be attributed to the masterly manner the business was conducted in; the whole of the credit of which is due to Lieut. Quin, to whom I confided the entire arrangement, and I hope you will honour him with your recommendation.” He was in consequence promoted to the rank of Commander by commission bearing date 5 Oct. 1824. His succeeding appointments were – 17 Sept. 1828, to the 18, on the Mediterranean station, whence he returned home and was paid off in May, 1830 – next, for a few months to the Second-Captaincy of the  74 – and, 29 July, 1834, to the  16, fitting for the East Indies. While in the latter vessel, in which he 