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  were very tardily bestowed, as neither the commander of the AEtna, nor Captain Lyons’s first lieutenant, obtained superior rank until Oct. 28th, 1829, at which period the latter had been a commissioned officer upwards of nineteen years.



 surviving son of the late John Travers, Esq. of Hettyfield and Grange, both in the county of Cork (of which he was a magistrate), by Mehetabel, only daughter of John Colthurst, of Dripsey Castle, Esq. and niece to Sir Nicholas Conway Colthurst, Bart. of Ardrum, in the same county.

This highly distinguished officer is descended from Laurentious Travers, whom we find settled at Nateby, co. Lancaster, in the year 1292. Another of his ancestors was Brion Travers, who went to Ireland in 1599, as secretary to the Earl of Leicester, then Governor or Lord Lieutenant of that kingdom. In 1630, Sir Robert Travers, grandson of the said secretary, was Vice-General of Cork, and Judge Advocate General. He commanded a division of the king’s army at a battle near Youghall, where he was slain in 1642 or 3. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of the Primate Boyle; and by her he left issue an only son, Richard, great-grandfather of the above mentioned John Travers, of Hettyfield; and two daughters, the eldest of whom was married to William Meade of Baltmable, Esq. from whom is descended the Earl of Clanwilliam; and the second to Sir Richard Alworth, Knt. Provost-Mareschal of Munster, and ancestor of Viscount Doneraile.

Mr. Eaton S. Travers commenced his gallant career, as midshipman on board the Juno frigate, Captain George Dundas, Sept. 15th, 1798; and served as a volunteer in that ship’s cutter, and the Undaunted armed schuyt, under the immediate command of Lieutenant (now Captain) Salusbury