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 until promoted to his present rank, by commission dated May 6th, 1828.

After the demise of Captain Rodney, the Dryad proceeded to the Irish station, where Lieutenant Holbrook again had charge of her, during a cruise on the western coast. In July 1827, having then just returned to Plymouth, from Gibraltar, she was inspected by his present majesty, who fully approved of the arrangements throughout the ship. She subsequently joined the squadron under Sir Edward Codrington, off Navarino, from whence she was unfortunately detached to Smyrna, just before the battle of Oct. 20th, for which honors and rewards were so unprecedently bestowed. In Dec. 1827, she proceeded to the Dardanelles to embark Mr. Stratford Canning, H.M. ambassador at Constantinople, whom she conveyed with his suite to Vorla, Corfu, and Ancona. On his return to England, that diplomatist represented the services of Lieutenant Holbrook in such a way to the Lord High Admiral that he was immediately promoted. In the summer of 1829, he commenced a course of studies at the Royal Naval College, where he continued until the end of Dec. 1831.

Commander Holbrook’s eldest brother is an attorney-at-law: his only surviving sister is the wife of Captain James Wallace Gabriel, R.N. 



Woolloughs claim descent from an ancient family originally seated at Wenlock, co. Salop, about the time of Henry III., a descendant of whom. Sir William Woolno’e, Knt., married and settled in Suffolk, temp. Edw. IV. At this period the family, it may be supposed, were wealthy and influential, Roger Woolno’e, a younger brother of Sir William, having married a sister of Richard Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. A pedigree up to the period of Cooke’s Visitation,