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582  in succession, the Sea Fencibles at Liverpool, and the Royal Sovereign yacht ; the latter of which he retained until his advancement to the rank of Rear-Admiral, Dec. 4, 1813. He was nominated a K.C.B. Jan. 2, 1815; and became a Vice-Admiral, July 19, 1821.

Sir William Hotham married Anne, daughter of Sir Edward Jeynes, Knight.

Residence.– Bath.



 in the last century, Mr. Robert Malcolm, a younger branch of the family of that name, came from Cupar in Fifeshire, where his ancestors had long resided, and settled on the borders of Scotland, as Minister of the parish of Ewes, near Langholm, in the county of Dumfries. His son George married Margaret, daughter of James Pasley, of Craig, Esq., and brought up seventeen children at his residence, Burnfoot, on the banks of the Esk, where part of his family now reside. The officer whose services we are about to trace is the third son, and was born at Douglan, near Langholm, on the 20th Feb. 1768. He entered the naval service Oct. 20, 1778, as a Midshipman, on board the Sybil frigate, commanded by his