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made a lieutenant in 1799; and promoted to his present rank, for conducting an explosion vessel into the road of Isle d’Aix, April 11th, 1800, at which period he was first lieutenant of the Theseus 74. He subsequently commanded the Shearwater sloop, on the Mediterranean station. 



his first commission in July 1804; served as lieutenant under Sir James Saumarez and Lord Gambier, in the Victory and Caledonia, first rates, on the Baltic and Channel stations, and was promoted to the rank of commander, for conducting an explosion vessel into the road of Isle d’Aix, April 11th, 1809. He married, in 1816, Susanna Eliza, daughter of Nathaniel Godbold, of London, Esq. 



made a lieutenant in Nov. 1805; and served as such under Sir Robert Stopford, in the Spencer 74 and Ceesar 80. He was made a commander, for conducting a fire-vessel into the road of Isle d’Aix, April 11th, 1809. This officer died, June 20th, 1829, aged 47 years. 



son of the late Francis John Hext, Esq. formerly an attorney-at-law, but latterly residing at Tredethy, near Bodmin, co. Cornwall, [an estate he possessed in right of his wife, Margaret, daughter of E. Lang, of Plymouth, co. Devon, Esq.], and a junior branch of the family of the same name, settled at Lostwithiel and Tremarren, near St. Austle.

This officer was born at Bodmin, July 5th, 1780; and received us midshipman on board the Russel 74, by that 