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 , April 2d, 1801. He obtained his first commission on the 7th Oct. 1805; and, after successively serving as senior lieutenant of the Indus 74, Captain William Hall Gage; Boyne 98, Captain Frederick L. Maitland; Vengeur 74, Captains Tristram R. Ricketts, and Thomas Alexander; and Superb 74, Captain Charles Elkins, in which ship he received a severe wound at the battle of Algiers, was promoted to the rank of commander, Sept. 16th, 1816. 



a lieutenant’s commission on the 22d Jan. 1806; served as first of the Minden 74, Captain William Paterson, at the battle of Algiers; and was promoted to his present rank, Sept. 16th, 1816. He married, Oct. 1st, 1823, Patience, youngest daughter of the Rev. William George, M.A. vicar of North Petherton, co. Somerset. 



of a Suffolk family, and the youngest of six brothers, four of whom devoted themselves to the service of their country, on the breaking out of the French revolutionary war. He was born at Lymington, co. Hants, in Oct. 1781, and entered into the royal navy in Dec. 1792. After serving on board the Lizard 28, Sheerness 44, and Hannibal 74, he was wrecked in la Determinée troop-ship, Captain Alexander Becher, Mar. 26th, 1803. We afterwards find him in the Dreadnought 98, and Ville de Paris 110, the latter ship bearing the flag of the veteran Cornwallis, commander-in-chief of the Channel fleet. His first commission, appointing him lieutenant of the Hibernia 120, flag-ship of Earl St. Vincent, bears date Aug. 4th, 1806. He subsequently served in the Revolutionnaire and Minerva frigates; as senior lieutenant of