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# A Poem of Felicia Hemans in New Year's Gift, 1830

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# A Poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The Literary Magnet, 1825

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# A Poem of Felicia Hemans in Friendship's Offering, 1827

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# A Poem of Felicia Hemans in Friendship's Offering, 1829

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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Somerville, Kenelm

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​SOMERVILLE, Lord. (Captain, 1814. f-p., 12; h-p., 34.)
The Right Honourable Kenelm Lord Somerville, born 14 Nov. 1787, is third son of the Hon. Hugh Somerville, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, by his second wife, Mary, eldest daughter of the Hon. Wriothesley Digby, of Meriden, co. Warwick. He succeeded his brother as 17th Baron 3 June, 1842.
This officer entered the Navy, in May, 1801, as a Volunteer, on board the Mars 74, Capt. Robt. Lloyd, bearing the flag in the Channel of Rear-Admiral Edw. Thornbrough. He served next, from Sept. 1801 until Dec. 1804, in the Narcissus 32, Capts. Ross Donnelly and Percy Fraser, in the North Sea and Mediterranean; and from Feb. 1805 until Sept. 1807, in the Medusa 32 and Revenge 74, both commanded by the late Sir John Gore. In the Narcissus he was present as Midshipman at the capture, in July, 1803, of L’Alcyon national corvette of 16 guns and 96 men; in the Medusa he escorted the Marquis Cornwallis to India, whence he returned to England, a distance of 13,831 miles, in the extraordinarily short period of 82 days; and in the Revenge he witnessed, while at the blockade of Rochefort, the capture, 25 Sept. 1806, of four French frigates by a squadron under the orders of Sir Sam. Hood. He was made Lieutenant, 11 Nov. 1807, into the Falcon 16, Capts. John Price and Lord Viscount Neville; and, on being next, 16 Nov. 1808, appointed to the Phoebe of 44 guns and 271 men, Capts. Hassard Stackpoole and Jas. Hillyar, he assisted at the reduction of the Isle of France, and, prior to joining in the expedition against Java, was present, 20 May, 1811 (during a cruize off Madagascar in company with the Astraea and Galatea, frigates nearly equal in force to the Phoebe, and 18-gun brig Racehorse) at the capture – after a long and trying action with the French 40-gun frigates Renommée, Clorinde, and Néréide – of the Renommée; and, on 25 of the same month, of the Néréide, and the settlement of Tamatave. On the surrender of the island of Java he was nominated Acting-Commander of the Sourabaya 14, one of the vessels there taken. He was presented by the Admiralty with a second promotal commission dated 1 Feb. 1812; and was lastly, from 11 Oct. 1813 until Oct. 1814, employed, on the coast of North America, in the Thames troop-ship. In Aug. of the latter year he was intrusted with a command in the flotilla sent up the Patuxent to act against the gun-boats under Commodore Barney; and for his conduct on that occasion he obtained the “warmest acknowledgments” of Rear-Admiral Cockburn, and was by him recommended to the favourable notice of Sir Alex. Cochrane, the Commander-in-Chief. His Lordship, whose Post-commission bears date 7 June, 1814, accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.
He married, 3 Sept. 1833, Frances Louisa, only daughter of John Hayman, Esq., and has issue two sons and four daughters. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Somerville, William

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​SOMERVILLE. (Retired Commander, 1840. f-p., 20; h-p., 36.)
William Somerville, born 3 July, 1775, is son of the late Mr. John Somerville, R.N., who was gunner of the Guardian, when that ship ran foul of an island of ice on her passage to New South Wales in 1788.
This officer entered the Navy, 20 April, 1791, as A.B., on board the Catherine yacht, Capt. Sir Geo. Young; in which vessel and in the Mary and Princess Augusta yachts, Capts. Hon. P. Perceval, Wm. Browell, and Edw. Riou, he continued employed in the river Thames until transferred, in May, 1796, to the Isis 50, Capts. Robt. Watson and ​Wm. Mitchell. During that period he assisted in fitting out a variety of frigates and other vessels. In the Isis he was present as Master’s Mate in the action off Camperdown 11 Oct. 1797; on which occasion he was placed on board one of the prizes and sent with her into Sheerness. On 19 Dec. ensuing he accompanied the grand procession of thanksgiving to St. Paul’s. He was made Lieutenant, 17 Dec. 1798, into the Babet 20, Capt. Jemmett Mainwaring; was next, in Oct. 1800 (about three months after he had invalided from the Babet), appointed to the Atalante sloop, Capt. Anselm John Griffiths; and was subsequently placed in command – 15 Aug- 1801, of the Raison 20, lying at Sheerness, where he remained until April, 1802 – 10 March, 1803, of the Enterprise receiving-ship off the Tower – and, 19 June, 1806, of the Vigilant 64, prison-ship at Portsmouth. While serving in the Babet, in the boats of which ship he was at different times actively employed on the coast of France, he accompanied the expedition to Holland (where he landed with the army and witnessed the surrender of the Dutch squadron under Rear-Admiral Storey), and was present in an attack made in July, 1800, on four French frigates, lying in Dunkerque Roads, one of which, La Désirée of 40 guns, was taken. On 29 Jan. 1801, Mr. Somerville, then in the Atalante, was severely wounded in the right thigh in boarding a Spanish privateer; in consequence whereof he was under the necessity of being sent to the hospital at Plymouth. On leaving the Enterprise in May, 1806, he was presented at the hands of Alderman Lucas, Captain-Commandant of the River Fencibles, with a piece of plate valued at 50 guineas, as a token of the acknowledgments of that corps for the very essential services he had on all occasions rendered it. He resigned command of the Vigilant 16 Nov. 1812; was admitted to the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital 3 Oct. 1825; and accepted his present rank 1 Oct. 1840.
From Feb. 1813 until April, 1815, Commander Somerville superintended the Marine Society’s ship. He has been twice married and has had issue three sons and two daughters.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Sotheby, Edward Southwell

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​SOTHEBY. (Commander, 1841.)
Edward Southwell Sotheby entered the Navy 3 Aug. 1826; passed his examination in 1832; and was made Lieutenant, 3 Oct. 1835, into the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir Josias Rowley, in the Mediterranean; where he served, from 5 April, 1837, until 1841, part of the time as Senior, in the Dido 18, Capt. Lewis Davies. His next appointment was, 21 Aug, 1841, in the capacity last mentioned, to the Madagascar 44, Capt. John Foote, fitting at Portsmouth. He acquired his present rank 30 Oct. in the same year; and commanded the Racehorse sloop in the East Indies from 26 June, 1846, until paid off in 1848.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/South, William Wilson

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​SOUTH. (Lieut., 1809. f-p., 18; h-p., 30.)
William Wilson South entered the Navy, 16 Aug. 1799, as Midshipman, on board La Forte 44, Capt. Ferdinand Lucius Hardyman, stationed in the East Indies, where, on that ship being wrecked, he joined in succession, in the course of 1801, the Leopard 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral John Blankett, and Fox 32, and Chiffonne 36, Capts. Henry Stuart, Chas. Adam, and Patrick Campbell. On his return in the latter frigate to Europe we find him, in June, 1805, present in company with the Falcon sloop. Clinker gun-brig, and Francis armed cutter, and assisting, after a chase of nine hours (during which the British suffered some loss from the incessant fire of the forts along shore) in driving under the batteries of Fécamp a division of the French flotilla, consisting of 2 corvettes and 15 gun-vessels, carrying in all 51 guns, 4 8-inch mortars, and 3 field-pieces, accompanied by 14 transports. When subsequently with Capt. Adam in the Resistance 38, he witnessed the surrender, 13 March, 1806, of the Marengo 80, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule; and on removing to the Mediator frigate, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise, he aided in taking, in the early part of 1807, the fort of Samana, St. Domingo, a notorious nest for privateers. Joining next the Veteran 64, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres, he served in the boats of that ship on various occasions, and was for some time employed in her tender the Gipsy, under the orders of the present Sir Rich. Grant. He was nominated, 2 June, 1808, Acting-Lieutenant of the Bacchante 20, Capt. Wm. Ward, with whom he returned to England; was promoted officially 13 June, 1809; and from 20 of the same month until 29 April, 1815, was employed on the Home, West India, and Cape of Good Hope stations, in the Dannemark 74, Capts. Jas. Bissett and Henry Edw. Reginald Baker, part, at first, of the force engaged in the expedition to the Walcheren. He has filled the appointment, since 4 July, 1845, of Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel.
In 1818-19 Lieut. South was chief Mate and Commander of the East India ship Java of 1175 tons; and in 1825-6 he commanded the Mexican frigate Libertad at the siege of San Juan de Ulloa. He married Louisa, daughter of Mr. John Rhodes, ​Surgeon, of Ramsgate, by whom he has issue three children. Agents – Burnett and Holmes.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Somerville, George Field

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​SOMERVILLE. (Retired Commander, 1841. f-p., 14; h-p., 36.)
George Field Somerville is son of the late Capt. Philip Somerville, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy in 1797, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Havick, Capt. Bartholomew, attached to the force on the Home station, where he removed, in the following Nov. to the Eugénie, commanded by his father, became Midshipman, in May, 1799, of the Osprey sloop, Capt. John Watts, and was again, from July, 1800, until April, 1802, and from Dec. in the latter year until Feb. 1805, employed with Capt. Somerville, part of the time as Master’s Mate, in the Eugénie and the Nemesis 28. He was nominated then Sub-Lieutenant of the Nimble brig, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Delafour; was made full Lieutenant, 7 May, 1805, into his former ship the Nemesis, still commanded by Capt. Somerville, on the Newfoundland station; and was subsequently appointed – 22 April, 1807, and 6 July, 1808, to the Hussar 38, Capt. Robt. Lloyd, and Ulysses 44, Capts. Christopher John Williams Nesham, Wm. Maude, Edw. Woolcombe, and Hon. Warwick Lake – 11 Nov. 1809, to the Circe 32, Capt. E. Woolcombe, under whom he assisted at the defence of Cadiz – and, 12 May, 1813, after two years of half-pay, to the Rota 38, in which ship he served with his father on the coast of North America and in the West Indies until April, 1814, when he invalided. In the Hussar Mr. Somerville witnessed the attack upon Copenhagen; and while Senior of the Ulysses he co-operated in the reduction of Martinique, and commanded a flat-bottomed boat in the expedition to the Scheldt. He accepted his present rank 16 Sept. 1841.
He is married and has a son, Philip Hodge, a Commander R.N. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Somerville, James Bowen

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​SOMERVILLE. (Lieutenant, 1814. f-p., 19; h-p., 17.)
James Bowen Somerville entered the Royal Naval College, 11 Nov. 1811; and embarked, 27 May, 1814, as a Volunteer, on board the Ajax 74, Capts. Robt. Waller Otway and Geo. Mundy; in which ship, after escorting a body of troops from Bordeaux to Quebec, he proceeded to the Mediterranean. In July, 1816, and June, 1817, he became Midshipman (a rating he had attained on board the Ajax) of the Eridanus 36, Capt. Wm. King, and Severn 40, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch, both on the Home station; and on 9 Nov. 1821, at which period he had been serving for some time in the Leander 50, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood in the East Indies, he was made Lieutenant into the Liverpool 50,, Capt. Fras. Augustus Collier. He returned home in 1822 in the Samarang 28, Capt. John Norman Campbell; and was subsequently appointed – 1 Oct. 1824, to the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies 74, Capt. W. M‘Culloch – 21 Jan. ​1825 and 7 Sept. 1829, to the Windsor Castle 74, Capts. Hugh Downman and Edw. Durnford King, and St. Vincent 120, Capt. Edw. Hawker, both lying at Plymouth – 1 May, 1830, to the Caledonia 120, Capts. Rich. Curry, Edw. Curzon, and Jas. Hillyar, employed, until the spring of 1833, on various particular services – 14 Aug. 1840, to the Southampton 50, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir E. D. King, Commander-in-Chief at the Brazils and Cape of Good Hope – and, 5 April, 1841, to the command, on the same station, of the Wizard 10, which vessel he brought home and paid off in 1842. He has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Southey, William

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​SOUTHEY. (Commander, 1844.)
William Southey entered the Navy, 13 July, 1804, as Midshipman, on board the Malta 84, Capt. Edw. Buller; in which ship, after sharing in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, 22 July, 1805, and assisting at the capture, 27 Sept. 1806, of Le Président, French frigate of 44 guns, he proceeded to the Mediterranean; where, in the course of 1807, he joined the Queen 98, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Geo. Martin, and Philomel sloop, Capt. Geo. Crawley. Subsequently to the capture of the convoy in the Bay of Rosas, alluded to in our memoir of Commander Henry Slade, he was sent in charge of one of the prizes taken on that occasion to Gibraltar, at which place he was for three months intrusted with the command of a gun-boat. From March, 1810, until Nov. 1813, he served in the Baltic and East Indies in the Loire 38, Capt. Alex. Wilmot Schomberg, and Owen Glendower 36, Capt. Brian Hodgson. Of the latter ship he was for nine months Acting-Master. On leaving her he returned to England in the Stirling Castle 74, Capt. Sir Home Popham. He was made Lieutenant, 17 Sept. 1814, into the Castor 32, Capt. Chas. Dilkes, under whom he was for a year employed in the Mediterranean and on the coast of North America; and he was afterwards appointed – 23 Dec. 1815, to the Rochfort 80, Capt. Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson, by whom he was sent in the Camelion tender to cruize between Brighton and Dungeness – 5 and 25 June, 1819, to the command (the Rochfort had been paid off in Aug. 1818) of the Musquedobet 12 and Griper Revenue-vessel, the latter stationed on the coast of Ireland for a few months in 1826-7, and again in 1829-30, as a Supernumerary, to the Ramillies 74, Coast Blockade ship, Capt. Hugh Pigot – 29 April, 1835, to the Coast Guard – 26 Sept. 1836, to the Téméraire 104, Capt. Thos. Fortescue Kennedy, guard-ship at Sheerness – 3 Feb. 1837, again to the Coast Guard – 9 Oct. 1840, to the command, for nearly twelve months, of the Nightingale brig, employed on particular service – 19 Aug. 1842, as First, to the Salamander steamer, Capt. And. Snape Hamond, fitting for South America – and 24 Nov. 1842, a third time, to the Coast Guard, in which he continued but a short period. He attained the rank of Commander 14 Aug. 1844; and has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Somerville, Philip

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​SOMERVILLE. (Commander, 1848.)
Philip Somerville entered the Navy, 11 Sept. 1824; passed his examination in 1830; obtained his first commission 15 March, 1841; and was then nominated Additional-Lieutenant of the Wellesley 72, Capt. Thos. Maitland. His succeeding appointments appear to have been – in the course of the same year, to the Transport service – in 1842, to the Cornwallis 72, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker, again to the Transport service, and to the Belleisle 72, Capt. John Kingcome – and, 7 May, 1844, to the Collingwood 80, fitting for the flag of Sir Geo. Fras. Seymour, Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific. On the paying off of the latter ship, of which he had been nominated Acting-Commander 8 Feb. 1847, he was officially promoted, 4 Aug. 1848, to the rank he now holds. In the attack upon Canton in May, 1841, he had charge of the boats of the Minerva, Sulimany, and Marion transports; and in Oct. of the same year he was honourably mentioned in the despatches of Sir Hugh Gough for the able manner in which he assisted in landing the troops at the taking of Chusan. In May, 1842, he was similarly employed at the capture of Chapoo.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, p. 2505.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, p. 388.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, p. 3693.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Somerville, Philip Hodge

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​SOMERVILLE. (Commander, 1842. f-p., 16; h-p., 5.)
Philip Hodge Somerville is son of Retired Commander Geo. Field Somerville, R.N.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 2 Feb. 1826; and embarked, 29 Dec. 1827, as a Volunteer, on board the Mersey 26, Capt. Alex. Barclay Branch, fitting for the West Indies. In Jan. 1828 he removed to the Maidstone 42, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Skipsey, at the Cape of Good Hope; where he became Midshipman, in Jan. 1829, of the Sparrowhawk 18, Capt. Thos. Sanders. That vessel being paid off in the ensuing April, he was appointed, in May of the same year, Admiralty Midshipman of the Ariadne 28, Capt. Fred. Marryat, stationed in the Channel. He was employed next – from 9 Aug. 1829 until 3 March, 1832, in the Nimrod 20, Capt. Sam. Radford, on the coast of Ireland – from 30 March, 1832, until 16 May, 1833, as Midshipman and Mate (he passed his examination 27 Oct. 1832) in the Caledonia 120, Capt. Jas. Hillyar, stationed off Lisbon during the war between Pedro and Miguel – from 18 May, 1833, until 15 Sept. 1837, again in the Caledonia under the flag, in the Mediterranean, of Sir Josias Rowley – and from 10 May, 1838, until 16 Jan. 1839, a second time off Lisbon, in the Russell 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Henry Dillon. He obtained his first commission 10 Jan. 1840; served from 19 Feb. following until he invalided 21 Oct. 1841, the greater part of the time as First-Lieutenant, in the Persian 16, Capts. Wm. Henry Quin and Thos. Rodney Eden, on the coast of Africa; and on 26 Feb. 1842, was appointed to his former ship the Caledonia, bearing the flags of Sir Graham Moore and Sir David Milne at Plymouth. While attached to the Persian he was much employed in her boats, and was in command of them at the capture, 23 June, 1841, after a severe action and a loss of 2 men killed and 1 wounded, of the piratical slaver Astraea. For this service he was eventually promoted to the rank of Commander 24 June, 1842. His last appointment was, 31 Jan. 1846, to the Wanderer 12, fitting for the coast of Africa, where he was superseded in Feb. 1847. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Sotheby, Charles

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​SOTHEBY. (Rear-Admiral of the Blue, 1848. f-p., 21; h-p., 31.)
Charles Sotheby is eldest son of Wm. Sotheby, Esq., F.R.S., of Fairmead Lodge, co. Essex. This officer entered the Royal Naval Academy 5 Sept. 1795; and embarked, 31 March, 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Alexander 74, Capt. Alex. John Ball, attached to the force in the Mediterranean; where he removed, 12 Dec. 1800, to the Foudroyant 80, flag-ship of Lord Keith, and was nominated, 21 Oct. 1801, Acting-Lieutenant of the Penelope 36, Capts. Hon. Henry Blackwood and Wm. Robt. Broughton. In the Alexander he was present as Midshipman at the battle of the Nile, at the capture of Le Généreux 74 and Ville de Marseilles store-ship, at the blockade and surrender of Malta, and on shore, as Aide-de-Camp to Capt. Ball, at the siege of the castle of St. Elmo; and in the Foudroyant he took an active part in the operations of 1801 in Egypt. Being confirmed a Lieutenant in the Penelope by a commission bearing date 25 Jan. 1802, he continued in that ship, in the Mediterranean and North Sea, until transferred, in 1803, to the Princess Royal 98, flag-ship in the Channel of Admirals Sawyer and Reynolds. His next appointments were – 25 April, 1807, to the Thetis 38, Capts. Wm. Hall Gage and Geo. Miller, under whom he took part in a variety of operations against the Turks – 18 Oct. 1808, to the Trident 64, as Flag-Lieutenant at Malta to Rear-Admiral Sir A. J. Ball – and, in March, 1809, to the acting command of the Pilot 18, which vessel, on her return from the Mediterranean, formed one of the advanced squadron in the expedition to the Scheldt. He was confirmed in the rank of Commander 8 Jan. 1810; was next, from 6 July in that year until posted 28 Feb. 1812, employed off Lisbon and again in the Mediterranean in the Latona 38, armée en flûte; and was afterwards appointed – 24 Aug. 1814, to the Slaney 20, lying in the River Medway – 1 Oct. 1814, to the Tamar 24, in which ship he served, on the Halifax, South American, and Cape of Good Hope stations, until 27 March, 1816 – and, 18 May, 1824, to the Seringapatam 46, fitting for the Mediterranean, where, during a stay of more than three years, he was very active in the suppression of piracy, and on one occasion, in May, 1825, forced the Bey of Rhodes by his spirited conduct to acknowledge an insult which had been offered to the British Consul. He attained Flag-rank 20 March, 1848.
Rear-Admiral Sotheby married first, 15 Feb. 1819, Hon. Jane Hamilton, third daughter of William, seventh Lord Belhaven and Stenton; and secondly, 18 Nov. 1830, Mary Anne, daughter of the late Admiral and Lady Mary Anne Sotheby, by whom he has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Sulivan, Thomas Digby

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​SULIVAN. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
Thomas Digby Sulivan passed his examination 7 Jan. 1843; obtained his commission 10 Aug. following; was appointed, 13 Jan. 1846, to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads; and, since 7 Aug. 1847, has been serving in the Cambrian 40, Commodore Jas. Hanway Plumridge, now in the East Indies.