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 Thls officer married, Jan. 9th, 1821, Mary Peckwell, daughter of Mr. Serjeant Blossett. 



made a lieutenant on the 20th Nov. 1812; and appointed to the Royal Oak 74, bearing the flag of Lord Amelias Beauclerk, Dec. 30th following. After the abdication of Napoleon Buonaparte, he continued in the same ship, under the flag of Rear-Admiral (now Sir Pulteney) Malcolm; proceeded with that officer to Bermuda and the Chesapeake, acted as aide-de-camp to Major-General Ross during the operations against Washington and Baltimore, received the last words of that much lamented officer, and afterwards was attached to the late Major-General Gibbs, in the expedition against New Orleans. He obtained his present rank on the 13th Mar. 1815. 



of the late General William Barrell, fifteen years colonel of the 4th (King’s Own) regiment, governor of Pendennis Castle, &c. who died in 1749; leaving an only son. Savage Barrell, Esq. of Ashford, near Staines, who by his wife, the sister of General Rainsford, left issue three sons.

Mr. entered into the royal navy about the commencement of the French revolutionary war; and was a youngster on board the Brunswick 74, at the ever memorable battle of June 1st, 1794; on which occasion that ship was most dreadfully cut up, and sustained a far greater loss than any other of the British fleet; it amounted to no less than 44 officers and men slain, and 115 wounded: among the latter (and who soon afterwards died of his wounds), was her heroic captain, John Harvey, of whom we