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 whole period of that officer’s command. His commission as commander bears date July 17th, 1819; and his promotion to the rank of captain took place April 30th, 1827, at which period he was serving in the Clio sloop, on the North Sea station.

Captain Aitchison married, Dec. 18th, 1821, Eliza, daughter of the late Matthew Munro, of the island of Grenada, Esq.

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 son of the late Thomas Eden, of Wimbledon, co. Surrey, Esq., and first cousin to the present Lord Auckland.

This officer was a midshipman of the Alceste frigate, Captain (now Sir Murray) Maxwell, during Lord Amherst’s embassy to China, in 1816. He obtained the rank of lieutenant on the 20th of Oct. 1817; and his subsequent appointments were, – June 22d, 1818, to the Liffey 50, Captain the Hon. Henry Duncan, C.B.; – Mar. 28th, 1820, to be flag-lieutenant to Sir Graham Moore, K.C.B.; – and, July 19th, 1822, to command the Martin 20, on the Mediterranean station. In 1825, when paying off that vessel, at Plymouth, her crew presented him with a handsome sword, on which is inscribed, “A tribute of respect from the ship’s-company of H.M. Sloop Martin to Captain Henry Eden.” He was advanced to his present rank April 30th, 1827.

Captain Eden’s eldest brother was formerly a Lieutenant-Colonel of the 15th foot. One of his sisters is married to Lord Brougham and Vaux, and another to Vice-Admiral Sir Graham Moore.

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 and youngest son of Samuel Thornton, Esq. (formerly M.P. for the county of Surrey, a Bank Director, Governor of the Russia Company, Deputy-Governor of the