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  officer was made a Lieutenant Nov. 6, 1778; and commanded the Tartarus bomb during the expeditions to Ostend and Egypt, in 1798 and 1801. He obtained post rank April 29, 1802; and subsequently held an appointment in the Sea Fencible service.

Agent.– Thomas Stilwell, Esq. 

 the eldest son of the late Rear-Admiral Epworth, by Jane, daughter of William Cuming, Esq. an Alderman of Totness.

The Epworths can boast a very respectable ancestry, as will appear from the following genealogical particulars: Lieutenant William Thompson, who fled from the battle of Worcester, Sept. 3, 1651, with Charles II., and continued abroad until the restoration, was the first man that jumped on shore to challenge any person to single combat who should oppose the King’s landing. He married the daughter of Sir Thomas Lowther, a member of the family from which is descended the present Earl of Lonsdale.

Lieutenant Thompson’s daughter married a Yorkshire gentleman named Willis, whose ancestor accompanied King Edward the First into Scotland, in the year 1296. His daughter married John Gillson, great grandson of MansonHarrison, Esq., Envoy at the Hague, who was united to a Dutch lady named Breaderord, a niece to the Earls of Egmont and Horn.

Mr. Gillson’s daughter married Farmery, father of the late Rear-Admiral Epworth, and grandson of Christopher Epworth, owner of the royalty of Keelby in Yorkshire, Vicar of the same place, and Rector of Croxton.

Farmery Predam Epworth, the subject of this memoir, was