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appointed to the Racehorse, of 18 guns, Sept. 21st, 1830; and removed from that sloop to the Champion 18, which vessel he paid off June 23d, 1832. He obtained the rank of captain on the 4th of the following month, as a reward “for important services at Jamaica during the late insurrection of the slaves;” and married, Aug. 15th, 1833, Harriet, youngest daughter of the late Sir Nelson Rycroft, Bart. 

 a son of Henry F. Greville, Esq., by Catherine, second daughter of Sir Bellingham Graham, Bart., of Norton Conyns, in the west riding of Yorkshire. His grandfather, Fulke Greville, Esq., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Munich, was the son of the Hon. Algernon Greville, second son of Fulke, fifth Lord Brooke, ancestor of the present Earl of Warwick, by Mary, daughter and co-heiress of Lord Arthur Somerset, fifth son of the Duke of Beaufort. His grandmother was Miss Macartney, of Granard, county Longford, Ireland, a rich heiress. His father’s sister married the late Lord Crewe; one of his uncles was united to Lady Charlotte Bentinck, daughter of the Duke of Portland; another is retired Captain William Fulke Greville, R.N., a man of very large fortune.

This officer was born at Ebberston, co. York, Aug. 24th, 1794; and entered the navy, as midshipman on board the Renown 74, Captain (now Sir Philip C. H.) Durham, in Mar. 1806. We next find him, about Sept. 1808, joining the Arethusa frigate, Captain (afterwards Sir Robert) Mends, under whose command he saw much active service, and was shot through the leg in a boating expedition, on the north coast of Spain, in 1809. He was subsequently removed to the San Josef 110, flag-ship of Sir Charles Cotton, 