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  A Companion of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath; Knight of the Royal French Order of St. Louis; and Knight {2d class) of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Anne.

officer was the fourth son of Thomas, first Viscount Anson (grand-nephew of the celebrated naval commander and circumnavigator, in whose person the family of Anson was first ennobled) by Anne Margaret, second daughter of Thomas Wenman Coke, of Holkham Hall, co. Norfolk, Esq., and was born on the 26th of Feb. 1801. He was made a lieutenant in April, 1822; appointed to the Tribune frigate. Captain G. H. Guion, fitting out for the Mediterranean station, in the month of November following; promoted to the command of the Brisk sloop, Jan. 26th, 1326; and advanced to the rank of captain (by commission dated back to Oct. 22d, 1827); nominated a C.B. (Nov. 13th, 1827), and decorated with the above mentioned foreign orders, for his conduct at the battle of Navarin; on which occasion his purser, Mr. Henry Campling, was killed while assisting the surgeon in dressing an amputation. The total loss sustained by the Brisk was one killed and three wounded.

Captain Anson died at the seat of his eldest brother, (now Viscount Anson), Shugborough, co. Stafford, Oct. 19, 1830.



 A Companion of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath; Knight if the Royal French Order of St. Louis; Knight (2d class) of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Anne; and M.P. for Hertford.

officer is the eldest son of Earl Talbot, by Frances Thomasine, eldest daughter of Charles Lambert, of Beau Park, co. Meath, Esq., and was born on the 8th of November, 1803. He was made a lieutenant in Jan. 1824 ; appointed to the Blonde frigate, Captain Lord Byron, June 7th following; promoted to the command of the Philomel sloop, Oct. 18th, 1826; advanced to the rank of captain, &c.