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made a lieutenant in May, 1807; appointed to the Crane sloop in Mar. 1811; and promoted to the rank of commander, while serving as first of the Tonnant 80, Captain Edward Pelham Brenton, June 13th, 1815. he married, in 1830, Ann, eldest daughter of Isaac Lane, of Ewell, co. Surrey, Esq. 



made a lieutenant in Sept. 1807; advanced to his present rank on the 13th of June, 1815; and appointed an inspecting commander, in the coast guard service, July 6th, 1830. 



the son of a London merchant, who, after his retirement from business, in 1788, resided for many years at Sunderland. His grandfather was a clergyman of the Scotch church.

This officer appears to have been born at London, on the 24 Oct. 1778; and, when fourteen years of age, placed in the office of the Comptroller of the Customs; but having imbibed an ardent predilection for a sea life, he was soon afterwards bound apprentice to the owners of a ship employed in the coal trade. After making a few voyages between Shields and the river Thames, he embarked on board a brig, and visited Archangel, Riga, and other Russian ports. In Dec. 1706, he became midshipman of the Hon. East India Company’s ship Hindostan; and on his return home, after a trip to Bombay and China, (during which he was, together with twelve other persons, struck down by lightning,) engaged as third mate on board the Experiment, a large West Indiaman; from which ship he was pressed on board the Brunswick 74, Captain William Gordon Rutherford, June 27th, 1709. The