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  to be Governor of Plymouth Hospital, July 15, 1795. He has a son in holy orders, married to Sarah, daughter of the late Colonel Hotham, of York. 

 JOHN GIBSON, made a Lieutenant Dec. 10, 1760; posted Dec. 23, 1782; and commanded the Porcupine frigate, employed in the defence of Gibraltar, at the close of the American war.

Residence.– Dulverton, Devonshire. 

 commission dated January 16, 1783.

Bankers.– Coutts and Co. 

 officer lost his right arm when serving as a Lieutenant on board the Atalante sloop of war, in an action with a large American frigate on the banks of Newfoundland, May 28, 1781. His conduct on this occasion was of the most heroic description. The instant his mutilated limb was dressed, he resumed his station upon deck, where he continued animating the crew till the vessel struck. He was made a Post-Captain Jan. 21, 1783; and appointed to Greenwich Hospital in 1796. 

 officer is a son of the late Matthew Smith, Esq. Major of the Tower of London, Colonel of the 2d regiment of Tower