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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lipscomb, Edwin

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​LIPSCOMB. (Lieut., 1826. f-p., 16; h-p., 25.)
Edwin Lipscomb, born 24 Aug. 1796, is son of the late Rev. W. Lipscomb, Rector of Welbury, Yorkshire; and nephew of the gallant Capt. John Cooke, R.N., who fell at Trafalgar, in command of the Bellerophon 74.
This officer entered the Navy, 10 May, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Avenger 16, Capt. Thos. White, part of the force on the Newfoundland station. Becoming attached, in March, 1811, to the Elizabeth 74, Capts. Edw. Leveson Gower and Gardiner Henry Guion, he was for upwards of four years employed as Midshipman and Master’s Mate of that ship off Lisbon, and also in the Mediterranean and Adriatic, where he served in the boats at the capture and destruction of many of the enemy’s armed vessels, and was present at the reduction, in June and July, 1813, of the towns of Omago, Dignano, and Fiumé. He next, in Oct. 1815, joined the Active 46, Capt. Philip Carteret, on the Jamaica station, whence he returned to England in Sept. 1817; and he was afterwards (he had passed his examination in Aug. 1816) employed, between Jan. 1819 and his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant 3 May, 1826, on board the Newcastle 60, flag-ship ot Rear-Admiral Edw. Griffith, Albion 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Hoste, and Revenge 76, bearing the flag of Sir Harry Burrard Neale – on the North American, Home, and Mediterranean stations. He then obtained an appointment to the Isis 50, flagship at Jamaica of Sir Lawrence Wm. Halsted, with whom he returned to England in June, 1827. He has since been on half-pay.
He married, 16 July, 1846, Mary, eldest daughter of the late Dansey Dansey, Esq., of Brincep Court, Herefordshire.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lipson, Thomas

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​LIPSON. (Commander, 1619. f-p., 23; h-p., 31.)
Thomas Lipson entered the Navy, in 1793, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Windsor Castle 98, Capt. Sir Thos. Byard, with whom he served in that ship at the reduction of Corsica; in the Bedford 74 in the action off Camperdown 11 Oct. 1797, and in the Foudroyant 80 at the capture, in Oct. 1798, of a French squadron under M. Bompart, destined for the invasion of Ireland. He continued in the last-mentioned ship under the flags of Lord Keith and Nelson until 1799 – latterly on the Mediterranean station; where, and in the North Sea, he was during the rest of the war employed, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Princess Charlotte 38, Ruby 64, and Isis 50, Capts. Sir Edw. Berry and Thos. Masterman Hardy. In 1803, after his name had been borne for short periods on the books of the Neptune 98, Capt. Fras. Wm. Austen, Amphion 32, Capt. T. M. Hardy, and Hydra 38, Capt. Geo. Mundy, he joined the Montagu 74, Capt. Robt. Waller Otway. During his continuance in that ship he assisted at the blockade of the enemy’s ports from Brest to the Dardanells; and was present, 22 Aug. 1805, in Adm. Hon. Wm. Cornwallis’ attack on the French fleet close in with Brest Harbour, on which occasion the Montagu exchanged broadsides with L’Alexandre of 80 guns. On 24 Jan. 1808 Mr. Lipson was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Sabrina 18, Capt. Edw. Kittoe, then off Cadiz. He was officially promoted 29 June, 1809, and was subsequently appointed – 29 Jan. 1810, as Senior, to the Bonne Citoyenne corvette, Capt. Pitt Burnaby Greene, in South America – 1 March, and 21 Sept. 1812, to the Laurestinus 24, and Barfleur 98, Capts. Hon. Wm. Gordon and Sir Edw. Berry, on the Brazilian and Mediterranean stations – in 1814-15, as First, to the Iphigenia 36, Capt. Andrew King, Tonnant 80, Sovereign 100, Capt. Wm. Robt. Broughton, employed on the coast of North America and at home and, 20 Nov. 1816 (after several months of half-pay), to the command of the Lapwing Revenue-cutter, which vessel, in Jan. 1817, was driven from her anchorage in Mill Bay, Plymouth, and went ashore high and dry, over a ridge of rocks, with comparatively little injury. He attained his present rank 4 March, 1819; and has not been since afloat.
Commander Lipson is now Harbour-Master at Adelaide, South Australia. He married, 30 July, 1812, Elizabeth, daughter of Wm. Took, Esq., of Weymouth. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lindsay, James

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​LINDSAY. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 12; h-p., 30.)
James Lindsay died 18 Sept. 1845.
This officer entered the Navy, 22 Aug. 1803, as A.B., on board the Snake 18, Capt. Wm. Roberts, on the West India station, whence he returned to England with the same Captain in the summer of 1804, as Midshipman of La Vertu. He was then, until Dec. 1810, employed on board the Mars 74, Capts. Geo. Duff, Robt. Dudley Oliver, Wm. Lukin, Jas. Katon, and John Surman Garden; and while so attached he took part, as Acting Second-Mate, in the battle of Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805 – assisted in taking, 28 July, 1806, Le Rhin, of 44 guns and 318 men – was present, 25 Sept. following, with Sir Sam. Hood’s squadron, at the capture, off Rochefort, of four heavy French frigates, two of which, the Gloire 46 and Infatigable 44, struck to the Mars – attended the expedition of 1807 to Copenhagen – and was actively employed in affording protection to the Baltic trade. On leaving the Mars, Mr. Lindsay joined the Barfleur 98, bearing the flag in the Thames of Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley, with whom he served for a period of 13 months. He then, in Jan. 1812, became Acting-Sub-Lieutenant of the Herring, Lieut.-Commander John Murray, and sailed for Halifax, where in July, 1813, he followed the latter officer into the Musqhedchet 12. He came home in April, 1814; obtained his commission 13 Feb. 1815; and was lastly, from 27 March, 1828, until April, 1829, employed in command of the Stork Revenue-vessel. Agents – Coplands and Burnett.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Little, Alexander

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​LITTLE. (Commander, 1846.)
Alexander Little passed his examination in 1834; obtained his first commission 26 Dec. 1837; and was afterwards appointed – 14 Feb. and 22 Aug. 1838, to the Malabar 74 and Racehorse 18, Capts. Edw. Harvey and Henry Wm. Craufurd, both on the North America and West India station, whence he returned in 1839 – 1 Feb. 1840, to the Thunderer 84, Capt. Daniel Pring, employed in the Mediterranean and in attendance on the Queen at Walmer Castle – and 19 Oct. 1843, as Senior, to the Iris 26, commanded in the East Indies by Capt. Geo. Rodney Mundy. He was superseded from the latter ship on attaining his present rank 9 Nov. 1846; and has since been on half-pay. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Littlehales, Edward

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​LITTLEHALES. (Commander, 1841.)
Edward Littlehales is second son of the late Vice-Admiral Littlehales.
This officer entered the Navy, 3 Dec. 1818; served for some time in the Mediterranean as Midshipman of the Revenge 76, flag-ship of Sir Harry Burrard Neale; passed his examination in 1825; and was made Lieutenant, 11 March, 1828, into the Success 28, Capts. Jas. Stirling and Wm. Clarke Jervoise. In Nov. 1829 the latter ship was all but lost on a reef, while making for Cockburn Sound, in Western Australia; on which occasion Mr. Littlehales’ exemplary conduct was of so signal a nature that he not only received the warmest thanks of Capt. Jervoise, but was permitted by the Lords of the Admiralty to succeed the present Captain Edmund Yonge, whose own conduct on the occasion procured him promotion, in the post of First-Lieutenant, and to retain it until paid off 16 Dec. 1831. His subsequent appointments were – 8 April, 1834, as Senior, to the Hastings 74, Capt. Henry Shiffner, bearing the flag afterwards of Sir Wm. Hall Gage on the Lisbon station, whence he returned at the close of 1837 – and, 2 March, 1840, to the command of the Dolphin brigantine on the coast of Africa. He attained the rank he now holds 23 Nov. 1841; and since Jan. 1842 has been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature/ק

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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dundas, Thomas

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​DUNDAS. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
Thomas Dundas died 10 Nov. 1845.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 Oct. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Majestic 74, Capt. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, flag-ship afterwards of Vice-Admiral Thos. Macnamara Russell, on the North Sea station. He rejoined the former officer in May, 1806, as Midshipman, on board the Saturn 74, and continued to serve with him, in that ship, and in the Royal Oak 74, one of the fleet employed in the expedition against Walcheren, until promoted to a Lieutenancy, 18 July, 1810, in the Zealous 74, Capt. Thos. Boys. His next appointments were – 22 Feb. 1813, to the Bold 14, Capt. John Skekel, in which he suffered shipwreck, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 27 Sept. following – and, in Aug. 1814, to the President 38, Capt. Archd. Duff, on the Irish station. He invalided 28 April, 1815; and was not afterwards employed. Agent – Fred. Dufaur.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Duncan, Adam Camperdown

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​DUNCAN. (Commander, 1837. f-p., 26; h-p., 6.)
Adam Camperdown Duncan died 19 July, 1845.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 Aug. 1813, as Midshipman, on board the Impérieuse 38, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan; and after assisting at the capture of Port d’Anzo, and in the operations ​against Via Reggio and Leghorn, accompanied the same Captain, in Aug. 1814, into the Glasgow 50. Between Aug. 1815 and July, 1823, we find him successively joining, on the North American station, the Scamander, Eurotas, and Forth frigates, all commanded by Sir John Louis, the Phaeton 38, Capt. Wm. Augustus Montagu, and the Salisbury 50, Capt. Maude. Having passed his examination in 1819, he was confirmed to a Lieutenancy, 22 Oct. 1823, in the Doterel sloop, Capt. Rich. Hoare. His after-appointments appear to have been, on various stations, to the Harrier 18, Capt. Geo. Gosling, Alacrity 10, Capt. Geo. Jas. Hope Johnstone, Jasper 10, Capt. Leonard Chas. Rooke, Curaçoa 26, Capt. David Dunn, Asia 84, Capts. Hyde Parker and Peter Richards, and Howe 120, bearing the flag of Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming. He was promoted to the rank of Commander, after having served for some time as First-Lieutenant of the latter ship, 10 Jan. 1837; and from 13 Nov. 1840 until the period of his death was employed in the Coast Guard.
Commander Duncan married Fanny, daughter of Travers Homan, Esq., of Colga, co. Sligo. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dundas, Henry

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​DUNDAS. (Captain, 1825. f-p., 18; h-p., 16.)
Henry Dundas entered the Royal Naval College 4 Feb. 1813; and embarked, 15 Sept. 1815, as a Volunteer, on board the Niger 38, Capt. Sam. Jackson, on the North American station. He there became Admiralty-Midshipman, 8 July, 1817, of the Leander 50, bearing the flag of Sir David Milne; and, after a twelvemonths’ subsequent attachment to the Liffey 50, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 7 Dec. 1819. In the latter capacity we find him successively appointed, 24 Jan. 1820, and 20 Oct. 1821, to the Glasgow 50, and Euryalus 42, Capts. Hon. Anthony Maitland and Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford, both employed in the Mediterranean, where he officially assumed command, 16 May, 1823, of the Rose 18. As a Post Captain, to which rank he was elevated 9 Feb. 1825, Capt. Dundas commanded the Dartmouth 42, and Sapphire 28, on the Jamaica and South American stations. His appointment to the former ship took place on the day of his promotion; and to the Sapphire 20 Dec. 1826. He has been on half-pay since 1830.
Capt. Dundas married, in 1836, Robina Mary, sister of the present Sir David Dundas, Bart., of Beechwood, co. Mid-Lothian, and of Dunira, co. Perth. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dundas, William

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​DUNDAS. (Lieut., 1818. f-p., 10; h-p., 29.)
William Dundas died in 1846.
This officer entered the Navy, 17 July, 1808, as Midshipman, on board the Tortoise, Master-Commander Thos. Cook, with whom he visited the Mediterranean and the Brazils. While afterwards filling a Master’s-Mateship, from Nov. 1811 to Aug. 1815, in the Furieuse 36, Capt. Wm. Mounsey, he witnessed the capture of the island of Ponza, and of the town of Via Reggio; and was present at the unsuccessful attack on Leghorn, as also at the occupation of Santa Maria, and of the enemy’s other forts in the Gulf of Spezia, and at the taking of Genoa. Independently of these services, we likewise find Mr. Dundas employed in the boats at the cutting out, 7 May, 1813, from under the tower and batteries of Orbitello, of a xebec mounting 2 6-pounders; and again, 4 Oct. following, at the capture, with a loss to the British of 12 men killed and wounded, of a large convoy, protected by the galling fire of two gun-vessels and several batteries, in the harbour of Marinelo. Proceeding, towards the close of 1815, to the East Indies, as Admiralty-Midshipman of the Challenger 16, Capt. Henry Forbes, Mr. Dundas (who, in the Furieuse, had also served on the North American station) there became Acting-Lieutenant, 12 May, 1816, of the Orlando 36, Capt. John Clavell. After officiating for 13 months in that capacity, he returned to England on board the Melville 74, Capt. Henry Chas. Pemberton. He was eventually promoted, from the Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Edw. Thornbrough, to the rank of Lieutenant, 20 Jan. 1818; but did not again go afloat. Lieut. Dundas was the senior officer of his rank on the list of 1818.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dundas, Richard Saunders

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​DUNDAS, C.B. (Capt., 1824. f-p., 18; h-p., 12.)
The Honourable Richard Saunders Dundas, born 11 April, 1802, is second son of Viscount Melville, K.T., for many years First Lord of the Admiralty, by Anne, daughter and co-heir of Rich. Huck Saunders, Esq., M.D., and grand-niece and co-heir of Admiral Sir Chas. Saunders, K.B., who died 3 Dec. 1775. He is brother of Hon. Henry Dundas, C.B., Lieut.-Colonel 60th Rifles; and of Hon. Robt. Dundas, Storekeeper-General of the Navy.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College in 1815; and embarked, 15 June, 1817, as a Volunteer, on board the Ganymede 26, Capt. Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer – with whom, as Midshipman of the same ship, and of the Owen Glendower 42, he served, until Dec. 1820, on the Mediterranean and South American stations. He then successively joined the Créole 42, and Superb 78, both commanded by Capt. Adam Mackenzie, the Alacrity and Icarus sloops, Capts. Henry Stanhope and Henry Algernon Eliot, and the Glasgow 50, Capt. Bentinck Cavendish Doyle. In the capacity of lieutenant, to which rank he was promoted 18 June, 1821, his appointments appear to have been – 24 Dec. 1821, to the Active 46, Capt. Andw. King, and, 25 Feb. and 6 Sept. 1822, to the Owen Glendower 42, and Sparrowhawk 18, Capts. Hon. R. C. Spencer and Edw. Boxer. He was advanced to the command, 23 June, 1823, of the latter vessel, on the Halifax station, where, and in the Mediterranean, he served until posted, 17 July, 1824. We subsequently find Capt. Dundas appointed – 13 Sept. 1825, to the Volage 28, fitting for South America – 12 March, 1827, to the Warspite 76, in which ship (the first of her class that ever circumnavigated the globe) he returned to England, from New South Wales, in Oct. following – 20 Nov. 1830, to the Belvidera 42, successively employed in the Mediterranean and off Oporto, whence he came home and was paid off in Dec. 1833 – and, 1 Sept. 1837, to the Melville 72. In that ship he afterwards bore a part in the opening scenes of the campaign in China. While there, he obtained the best thanks of Sir Gordon Bremer for his conduct at the capture of Ty-cock-tow, 7 Jan. 1841 – was present with H.M.’s Plenipotentiary at a formal meeting which was held with the Chinese Commissioner on 26 of the same month – and on 26 of the ensuing Feb. took up his position in the most gallant style in the action which preceded the capture of the forts at the Boca Tigris. He paid the Melville off at the end of 1841; and has not since been afloat . Capt. Dundas, who had previously filled the same office under his father in 1828, 29, and 30, was appointed, in Jan. 1845, Private Secretary to the Earl ​of Haddington. He continued so to officiate until Jan. 1846, when that nobleman vacated his seat as President of the Board of Admiralty. His nomination to the C.B. took place, as a reward for his services in China, 29 June, 1841. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Duncan, Robert

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​DUNCAN. (Commander, 1840.)
Robert Duncan entered the Navy 9 Jan. 1819; passed his examination in 1826; and obtained his first commission 2 May, 1837. He was then appointed to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Thos. Hastings, under whom he continued until transferred, 1 Jan. 1839, to the Powerful 84, Commodore Sir Chas. Napier. Taking part, afterwards, in the Syrian hostilities, he volunteered and led the mountaineers in a very spirited attack made by the Turkish troops under Sir C. Napier on a strong position occupied by Ibrahim Pacha on the heights near Beyrout, 10 Oct. 1840. Being Senior Lieutenant of the Powerful at the fall of St. Jean d’Acre, he was in consequence promoted to the rank of Commander by commission dated 4 Nov. 1840. He has since been on half-pay. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Duncan, Thomas

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​DUNCAN. (Retired Commander, 1832. f-p., 16; h-p., 38.)
Thomas Duncan entered the Navy, 24 April, 1793, as Ordinary, on board the Thames, of 32 guns and 184 men, Capt. Jas. Cotes. On 24 Oct. following, being on his passage to Gibraltar, he took part in a furious drawn action of nearly an hour’s duration with the French frigate Uranie, of 44 guns and 320 men. The Thames, which on that occasion was dreadfully cut up, and sustained a loss of 11 men killed and 23 wounded, was unfortunately, however, captured in the course of the same day by one of the enemy’s squadrons. After nearly two years’ imprisonment, Mr. Duncan was at length, in Aug. 1795, restored to liberty. He then joined the Vesuvius bomb, Capts. Facey and Robt. Lewis Fitzgerald; and while in that vessel was present at the bombardment of Havre by a squadron under Sir Rich. Strachan, and assisted at the destruction of La Confiante, of 36 guns, and of a French national cutter, 31 May, 1798. Returning home afterwards from the Mediterranean in the Tonnant 80, Mr. Duncan became attached to the Nereide 36, Capt. Fred. Watkins; under whom we find him participating in the capture, 2 March, 1800, of La Vengeance privateer, of 16 guns and 174 men, and, the next day, of a ship, with a cargo on board of the value of 30,000l. After a continued servitude, as Master’s Mate and Midshipman, in the Cambrian 40, Capt. Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge, and Windsor Castle 98, bearing the flag in the Channel of Sir Andrew Mitchell, he was promoted to a Lieutenancy in the latter ship by commission dated 5 Sept. 1801. His subsequent appointments were – 19 May, 1803, to the Serapis 44, Capt. Henry Waring, under whom he assisted at the reduction, in May, 1804, of the Dutch settlement of Surinam – 31 Oct. 1804, to the Amelia and Ethalion frigates, Capts. John Chas. Wolcombe and Wm. Chas. Fahie, in the latter of which he served at the capture of the Danish West India Islands in Dec. 1807 – and, 27 July, 1808, to the Namur 74, flag-ship at the Nore of Vice-Admiral Wells. This officer, who has been on half-pay since 1810, acquired the rank of Retired Commander 30 March, 1832.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Duncombe, Arthur

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​DUNCOMBE, M.P. (Captain, 1834. f-p., 13; h-p., 15.)
The Honourable Arthur Duncombe, born 24 March, 1806, is fourth son of the first Lord Feversham, by Charlotte, only daughter of William, second Earl of Dartmouth; and brother of the present peer. He is also brother of Hon. Octavius Duncombe, M.P., an officer in the 1st regiment of Life Guards; and brother-in-law both of the present Earl of Eldon and of Sir Thos. Digby Legard, Bart.
This officer entered the Navy 1 April, 1819; and obtained a Lieutenancy, 26 Jan. 1826, in the Seringapatam 46, Capt. Chas. Sotheby. After serving for some time in the Challenger 28, he was awarded a Commander’s commission, 18 Aug. 1828. He subsequently joined – 6 Aug. 1830, the Prince Regent 120, bearing the flag at the Nore of Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood – and, 27 June, 1832, the Champion 18, in which sloop he appears to have been employed for two years on the Mediterranean station. Since the date of his Post-promotion, 24 Oct. 1834, he has not been afloat.
Capt. Duncombe is representative in Parliament for the borough of East Retford, and a Groom in Waiting to Her Majesty. He married, 14 July, 1836, Delia, youngest daughter and co-heir of John Wilmer Field, Esq., of Heaton Hall, co. York, and has issue three sons and one daughter. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.