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# A Field Book of the Stars/Virgo

The Constellations of Summer.
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VIRGO (ver'-go)—THE VIRGIN. (Face West.)
Location.—An imaginary line drawn from Antares in Scorpio through (α) Libræ and prolonged a little over 20 degrees strikes Spica, the brightest star in Virgo, which star is about 30 degrees southwest of Arcturus.
Arcturus, Cor Caroli, Denebola, and Spica form a figure about 50 degrees in length, called the Diamond of Virgo.
The stars (π) and (ξ) are almost exactly on the equator of the heavens.
The star (ε) is known as the "Grape Gatherer." It is observed to rise just before the sun at vintage time.
Spica is used for determining longitude at sea. It represents the ear of corn held in the Virgin's left hand.
Within the rude square formed by Denebola, ε, γ, and β, Virginis, the telescope reveals many wonderful nebulæ; hence this region of the sky has been called "The field of the Nebula."
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Tickell, Thomas

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​TICKELL. (Lieut., 1842. f-p., 16; h-p., 1.)
Thomas Tickell, born 28 Feb. 1817, is son of Major-General Tickell, C.B., Bengal Engineers. This officer entered the Royal Naval College 5 Aug. 1830; and embarked, 21 June, 1832, as a Volunteer, on board the Vernon 50, Capt. Sir Fras. Augustus Collier, part of an experimental squadron stationed in the Channel. From Nov. following until paid off on his return to England in Oct. 1836 he served, chiefly as Midshipman, in the Spartiate 76, flag-ship of Sir Michael Seymour, Conway 28, Capt. Henry Eden, Blonde 46, Commodore Fras. Mason, and North Star 28, Capt. Octavius Vernon Harcourt, all on the South American station. In Jan. 1827 (having passed his examination 20 July preceding) he was nominated Mate of the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings; and from May, 1838, until Dec. 1842, he was employed in that capacity, on the coast of North America and at the Cape of Good Hope, in the Andromache 26, Capt. Robt. Lambert Baynes. He then took up a commission bearing date 29 March, 1842; and from 19 Oct. 1843 until the close of 1848 he served in the Fox 42, Commodore Sir Henry Martin Blackwood, in the East Indies.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Thorold, Richard

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​THOROLD. (Retired Commander, 1845. f-p., 11; h-p., 34.)
Richard Thorold entered the Royal Naval Academy 14 April, 1802; and embarked, 17 March, 1805, as Midshipman, on board the Belliqueux 64, Capt. Hon. Geo. Byng, stationed in the North Sea. After serving for three years in the Mediterranean, a great part of the time as Master’s Mate, in the Apollo frigate, Capt. Edw. Fellowes, and Ocean 98, flag-ship of Lord Collingwood, he was made Lieutenant, 26 Aug. 1808, into the Minorca 18, Capt. Phipps Hornby, stationed off Cadiz. He was superseded from that vessel in March, 1809; and was subsequently appointed – in June of the same year, to the Inconstant 36, Capt. Edw. Stirling Dickson, at the Cape of Good Hope, whence he returned in July, 1810 – 14 Dec. following, for a few weeks, to the Goshawk sloop, Capt. Edw. Lilburn, at Spithead – 26 Oct. 1811, to the Warrior 74, Capt. Hon. Geo. Byng, stationed in the North Sea and Channel – and, 2 Oct. 1812, to the Pembroke 74, Capt. Jas. Brisbane, employed at first off Brest and then in the Mediterranean, where he fought in Sir Edw. Pellew’s partial action with the Toulon fleet 5 Nov. 1813, assisted at the capture and destruction of a convoy under the guns of Porto Maurizio ll April, 1814, and witnessed the fall of Genoa. He left the Pembroke in Aug. 1814; and accepted his present rank 1 Nov. 1845. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Thursby, Frederick Spencer

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​THURSBY. (Lieutenant, 1826.)
Frederick Spencer Thursby, born in 1801, is third son of John Harvey Thursby, Esq., of Abington Abbey, co. Northampton (who served as High Sheriff for the shire in 1803), by Emma, daughter of Wm. Piggott, Esq., of Doddershall; and nephew of Wm. Spencer Thursby, Esq., a Lieut.-Colonel in the army.
This officer entered the Navy 7 Sept. 1814; passed his examination in 1822; and obtained his commission 1 June, 1826. With the exception of a few months passed in 1837-8 in the Coast Guard, he has since been on half-pay.
He married, in 1831, Miss Lerigens, of Aix-la-Chapelle. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Tilley, James

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​TILLEY. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 26; h-p., 26.)
James Tilley was born in 1781, in co. Somerset.
This officer entered the Navy, 21 May, 1795, as Fst.-cl. Boy, on board the Pallas 32, Capt. Hon. Henry Curzon; and on 16 and 17 June following was present in Admiral Hon. Wm. Cornwallis’ celebrated retreat. In July of the same year he removed to the Royal George 100, bearing the flag of Lord Bridport in the Channel; and from Aug. 1799 until April, 1802, he served at Woolwich, in the Downs, and at Sheerness, in the William armed-ship, Capt. Henry Combe, Vesuvius bomb, Capt. Sam. Warren, Zealand 64, Capt. Henry Lidgbird Ball, and Unité 36, Capt. Thos. Harvey. In June, 1804, he was received as Master’s Mate on board the Romulus 36, armée en flûte, Capt. Thos. Burton, under whom we find him, during the next two years, employed off Harwich and in the conveyance of troops home from Cuxhaven. He then in succession, in Aug. and Sept. 1806, joined the Ardent 64 and Magnificent 74, both commanded by Capt. Geo. Eyre. In the latter ship, after serving off Bayonne, Cadiz, and Toulon, he united, in Nov. 1808, in the defence of the fortress of Rosas, when besieged by the French, and was actively engaged in landing and re-embarking the seamen and marines under a heavy fire of cannon and musketry. In Oct. 1809 he assisted at the reduction of the islands of Zante, Cephalonia, and Cerigo; in March, 1810, he served on shore with a detachment of seamen at the capture of Santa Maura; and in 1811-12 he co-operated with the patriots on the coast of Catalonia and north coast of Spain. Having acted as a Lieutenant of the Magnificent from 4 Aug. 1810 until 11 Jan. 1811, Mr. Tilley, who had passed his examination in June, 1806, was officially promoted to that rank 21 March, 1812. He continued in the Magnificent, latterly on the West India station, until Aug. 1815, and was the officer sent in 1814, in charge of one of her boats, with a flag of truce to Douarnenez Bay to meet the French deputation and announce the abdication of Buonaparte and the restoration of Louis XVIII. With the exception of a few months in 1823, he served, from Aug. 1819 until Dec. 1826, as District and Divisional Lieutenant in the Coast Blockade, with his name on the books of the Severn 50 and Ramillies 74, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot. During that period he made not less than 70 seizures. He has since been on half-pay.
​Lieut. Tilley married, in 1826, Ann, relict of Alexander Greet, Esq., sister-in-law of Thos. Young Greet, Esq., many years Mayor and Chamberlain of the borough of Queenborough, in the Isle of Sheppey, and mother of the present Lieut. Wm. Greet, R.N., by whom he has had issue a son, Edwin, educated at the Royal Naval School, and a daughter, Ann, who died, at the age of 14, at the Royal Naval Female School at Richmond. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Thrackston, Edwin

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​THRACKSTON. (Retired Commander, 1846. f-p., 10; h-p., 42.)
Edwin Thrackston entered the Navy, 3 May, 1795, as Midshipman, on board the Scipio 64, Capts. Robt. Macdoual, Chas. Sydney Davers, and Fras. Laforey, stationed in the West Indies, where he removed, in Feb. 1797, to the Experiment 44, Capt. John Barrett. In the following Dec, after having visited the coast of North America, he joined the Monarch 74, Capts. Edw. O’Bryen, Sam. Sutton, Archibald Dickson, and Jas. Robt. Mosse, in which ship he served at first in the North Sea under the flags of Sir Rich. Onslow and Sir Archibald Dickson, and next in the Baltic; on which station he fought and was wounded at the battle of Copenhagen 2 April, 1801. In the course of the same month he was received on board the flag-ship of Sir Hyde Parker, the London 98. He was made Lieutenant, 25 July following, into the Glatton 50, Capt. Wm. Birohall, lying at the Nore; was paid off from that ship at the peace; and was next, from ​July, 1803, until April, 1805, and from Dec. in the latter year until May, 1806, employed in the Princess Royal 98, Capts. Jas. Vashon, Herbert Sawyer, and Robt. Carthew Reynolds, and Bellona 74, Capt. John Erskine Douglas, on the Channel, West India, and North American stations. In 1829-30 he commanded the Arrow cutter of 10 guns at Portsmouth. He was placed on the Junior List of Retired Commanders 24 March, 1840; and on the Senior 29 June, 1846. Agents – Burnett and Holmes.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Thorp, William

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​THORP. (Lieutenant, 1838.)
William Thorp entered the Navy 2 April, 1826; passed his examination in 1832; and obtained his commission 28 June, 1838. His succeeding appointments were – 20 June, 1839, to the Gorgon steamer, Capt. Wm. Honyman Henderson, under whom he took part in the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria, including those against Sidon and St. Jean d’Acre – 27 Aug. 1842, as First-Lieutenant, to the Orestes 18, Capts. Hon. Swynfen Thos. Carnegie, John Jas. Robinson, and Edw. St. Leger Cannon, also in the Mediterranean – 12 Sept. 1844, to the Medea steam-sloop, Capt. Fred. Warden, on the same station – and, 30 July, 1845, again as First, to the Calliope 26, Capt. Edw. Stanley, fitting for the East Indies, whence he returned in 1847. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Tills, Charles

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​TILLS. (Retired Commander, 1844. f-p., 17; h-p., 33.)
Charles Tills died 8 June, 1845, at 7, Park Place, North Brixton, co. Surrey, aged 69.
This officer entered the Navy, 6 Jan. 1796, as A.B., on board the Marie Antoinette, Lieut.-Commanders Perkins and Horsley, of which vessel he was nominated, in the following March, Acting- Master. In the course of the same year, with her boats under his orders, he was severely wounded in boarding a privateer off St. Domingo; and in the early part of 1797 he was, in company with those of the Rattler sloop, at the capture, under a heavy fire, of four armed row-boats and a privateer of 2 guns and 56 men. From June, 1797, until Jan. 1800, he served, still as Acting-Master, in the Proselyte, Capts. Loring and Fowke, on the West India, Irish, Channel, and North Sea stations. In 1799 he took part in the operations connected with the expedition to Holland. On leaving the Proselyte he was received as Master’s Mate on board the Shannon 38, Capt. Chas. Dudley Pater, in which frigate, and the Princess Charlotte 38, Capt. Hon. Fras. Farington Gardner, he was for two years and two months employed on the Home station. Being appointed, in the summer of 1802, Admiralty-Midshipman of the Phoebe 36, Capt. Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel, he proceeded soon afterwards to the Mediterranean, where, previously to removing as Master’s Mate, in Aug. 1803, to the Victory 100, flag-ship of Lord Nelson, he was again wounded in boarding two armed vessels on the coast of Genoa. On 16 Jan. 1805 he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Tigre 74, Capt. Benj. Hallowell; he was confirmed to that ship, after having accompanied the expedition to Egypt, 7 Oct. 1807; and he was next appointed – 23 April, 1808, to L’Aigle 36, Capt. Geo. Wolfe, under whom he witnessed Lord Cochrane’s celebrated attack upon the French shipping in Aix Roads – 31 Oct. 1809, after three months of half-pay, to the Curaçoa 36, Capt. John Tower, stationed in the Channel and Mediterranean – and, 12 July, 1813 (he had been discharged from the Curaçoa, we believe, in Sept. 1812), to the Rippon 74, Capt. Sir Christopher Cole. In the ship last mentioned he beheld, 21 Oct. 1813, the surrender, off Ushant, of the French 44- gun frigate Le Weser. He was placed on half-pay in Sept. 1814; admitted to the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital 16 July, 1831; and invested with the rank of Commander on the Retired List 15 April, 1844. For his wounds he obtained a grant from the Patriotic Fund.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Thurburn, James Ptolemy

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​THURBURN. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
James Ptolemy Thurburn entered the Navy 3 June, 1831; passed his examination in 1837; and was made Lieutenant, 15 March, 1841, into the Persian 16, Capt. Thos. Rodney Eden, on the coast of Africa. His appointments since he left that vessel have been – 16 Sept. 1841, to the Thalia 42, Capt. Chas. Hope, under whom he was for about four years employed in the East Indies and Pacific, latterly as First-Lieutenant – 6 March, 1846, in the capacity last named, to the Harlequin 12, Capt. Douglas Curry, in the Mediterranean – and, 17 Nov. following, to the command of the Griffon brigantine, on the south-east coast of America, where he is now serving. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Meredith, Samuel

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​MEREDITH. (Commander, 1828. f-p., 24; h-p., 15.)
Samuel Meredith entered the Navy, 8 May, 1808, as a Volunteer, on board the Cadmus 10, Capt. Delamere Wynter, attached to the force in the Channel. After serving off Greenwich in the Thisbe 28, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Henry Edwin Stanhope, and in the North Sea and off Greenland in the Belvidera 36, Capt. Rich. Byron, he became Midshipman, 22 Sept. 1810, of the Malacca 36, Capts. Wm. Butterfield and Sam. Leslie, with the latter of whom he continued employed on the East India station in the Volage 22, and Theban 36, until April, 1816. In the Volage he witnessed an attack made, 28 June, 1813, upon the defences of Sambas, a piratical state on the western coast of Borneo, as he also did, in Sept. of the same year, the restoration of the Sultan of Palambang to his throne. Of the Theban, Mr. Meredith, who had been acting in her for nine months, was confirmed a Lieutenant 24 Nov. 1815. His appointments after he left her were – 6 Sept. 1816, to the Larne 20, Capt. Abraham Lowe, employed in the Channel and West Indies, whence he returned in Jan. 1819 – 11 July, 1820, to the Severn 40, Capt. Wm. McCulloch, lying in the Downs for the purposes of the Coast Blockade – 6 Dec. 1822, to the Prince Regent 120, flag-ship of Sir Benj. Hallowell at Chatham – 11 ​April, 1823, and, again, 4 Sept. 1824, to the post of Agent for Transports Afloat – and, 8 April, 1825, to the command of the Vigilant cutter of 12 guns, on the Plymouth station. He was advanced to his present rank 7 May, 1828; and was subsequently, from 6 July, 1830, until 1833, and, again, from 20 March, 1835, until 1838, employed as an Inspecting Commander in the Coast Guard.
The Commander, who is Chief Constable for co. Wilts, married, 21 June, 1819, Lydia, third daughter of John Dyer, Esq., Secretary of Greenwich Hospital. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Metcalfe, William Charles

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​METCALFE. (Commander, 1841.)
William Charles Metcalfe entered the Navy 7 Oct. 1824; served as Midshipman of the Asia 84, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Codrington, at the battle of Navarin, 20 Oct. 1827; passed his examination in 1832; and obtained his first commission 7 March, 1837. His succeeding appointments were – 24 of the same month, to the Malabar 74, Capts. Sir Wm. Augustus Montagu and Edw. Harvey, with whom he served, on the Lisbon and North America and West India stations, until paid off in the following year – and 7 Nov. 1839, to the Blonde 42, Capt. Thos. Bourchier. For his conduct in that ship during the campaign in China, where he witnessed the first and second capture of Canton, he wag advanced to his present rank 8 Oct. 1841. He has since been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Mercer, Samuel

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​MERCER. (Commander, 1838. f-p., 19; h-p., 6.)
Samuel Mercer entered the Navy, 20 Jan. 1822, as Midshipman, on board the Leven 26, Capt. Wm. Fitzwilliam Owen, in which vessel, until Sept. 1826, he was employed in surveying the east and west coasts of Africa. In Feb. 1827, after he had been for about two months attached to the Challenger 28, Capt. John Hayes, on the Home station, he again joined Capt. Owen on board the Eden 26. Continuing with him until June, 1830, he was in consequence afforded an opportunity of assisting in the colonization of Fernando Po, and had the satisfaction during the period of being awarded a Lieutenant’s commission dated 12 Jan. 1829. His next appointments were – 23 June, 1831, to the Blossom 16, Capt. Rich. Owen, employed on surveying-service in the West Indies, where he remained, part of the time in command of the Monkey tender, until Oct. 1832 – and 11 Jan. 1834, to the command of the Charybdis 3. While in that vessel, which he paid off in Sept. 1837, Lieut. Mercer was again stationed on the African coast, and succeeded in capturing not less than 14 slave-vessels. Attaining his present rank 28 June, 1838, he officiated, from 17 Aug. 1841, until Aug. 1846, as Superintendent of the Packet service at Dover, with his name on the books of the Ocean 80, guard-ship at Sheerness. He is now on half-pay.
Commander Mercer married, 20 Feb. 1839, Fanny, eldest daughter of Lieut. Josiah Durnford, R.N., by whom he has issue. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Mends, William Robert

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​MENDS. (Commander, 1846. f-p., 21; h-p., 1.)
William Robert Mends, born 27 Feb. 1812, is eldest son of Capt. Wm. Bowen Mends, R.N.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 7 May, 1825; and embarked, 21 Dec. 1828, as a Volunteer, on board the Challenger 26, Capt. John Hayes. In the ensuing Jan. he removed to the Thetis 46, Capts. Arthur Batt Bingham and Sara. Burgess, with whom he continued to serve on the South American station, latterly in the capacity of Midshipman, until wrecked off Cape Frio 5 Dec. 1830; and he was next, between April, 1831, and his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 11 Aug. 1835, employed as Mate in the Actaeon 26 and Pique 36, Capts. Hon. Fred. Wm. Grey and Hon. Henry John Rous, in the Mediterranean and on particular service. His succeeding appointments were – 30 Dec. 1835, 29 Nov. 1836, and 17 Jan. 1837, to the Vernon 50, Capt. John M’Kerlie, Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir Josias Rowley, and Rodney 92, Capt. Hyde Parker, all on the Mediterranean station – between 28 July, 1838, and June, 1843, to the Ceylon 2, Benbow 74, and Ganges 84, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir John Louis, Admiral Superintendent at Malta – and 3 Nov. 1843, as Senior, to the Fox 42, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Henry Martin Blackwood in the East Indies. He returned to England on the occasion of his advancement to the rank of Commander, 9 Nov. 1846; and is at present unemployed.
Commander Mends married, 6 Jan. 1838, Melita, third daughter of Joseph Stilon, Esq., M.D., Surg. R.N. (1815).
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Mercer, John Davis

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​MERCER. (Commander, 1824. f-p., 14; h-p., 35.)
John Davis Mercer entered the Navy, in 1798 as Midshipman, on board the Perdrix 22, Capt. Wm. Chas. Fahie, on the books of which ship, stationed in the Leeward Islands, his name was borne until the following year. We next, in 1801, find him on board the Berschermer 54, Capt. Alex. Fraser, off Harwich; and, in 1805, rejoining Capt. Fahie in the Amelia frigate, on the West India station; where, on following him into the Ethalion, he assisted at the capture of the Danish islands of St. Thomas and Ste. Croix in Dec. 1807. In 1808 he returned to England in the Ramillies 74, Capt. Robt. Tarker, but, being soon ordered back in the Gloire 38, Capt. Jas. Carthew, was again, in the course of the same year, placed under the orders of Capt. Fahie as Master’s Mate on board the Belleisle 74 – following him afterwards into the Pompée and Abercromby of similar force The Belleisle, we may here observe, formed part of the squadron employed at the reduction of Martinique in Feb. 1809; and, in the ensuing April the Pompée, with a loss to herself of 9 men killed and 30 wounded, proved the captor, when in company with the Castor 32, of the French 74-gun ship, ​d’Haupoult, between 80 and 90 of whose people were killed and wounded. Attaining the rank of Lieutenant 8 Dec. 1809, Mr. Mercer continued employed in that capacity in the West Indies for a further period of nearly four years in the Pultusk sloop, Capts. Wm. Elliott and John M‘George, Pelorus 18, Capt. Thos. Huskisson, Abercromby again, Capt. W. C. Fahie, Cygnet sloop, commanded by various officers. Dragon 74 and Grampus 50, flag-ships of Sir Fras. Laforey, and Cleopatra frigate, Capt. Chas. Gill. His next appointments were, 18 March, 1821, to the Salisbury 50, Capt. John Wilson, on the Leeward Island station, and 5 Aug. in the same year to the Forte 44, as Flag-Lieutenant to the late Sir Edw. Griffith Colpoys, Commander-in-Chief at Halifax, where he afterwards, in the Salisbury, filled the like post under his early friend Rear-Admiral Fahie. He acquired his present rank 9 Sept. 1824, and has since been on half-pay. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Merriman, Charles

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​MERRIMAN. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 8; h-p., 33.)
Charles Merriman entered the Navy, 9 Oct. 1806, as Third-cl. Vol., on board the Pheasant 18, Capt. John Palmer; and in the course of 1807 was present at the storming of Monte Video, and in all the operations which preceded the evacuation of Spanish America by the British. He was employed during the next four years on the Home station, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, under Lord Amelius Beauclerk, in the Saturn and Royal Oak 74’s; and in the latter ship, in 1809, he accompanied the expedition to the Walcheren. He afterwards, until May, 1814, served, chiefly off the coasts of France, Spain, and Holland, in the Tigre and Rivoli 74’s, Capts. John Halliday and Graham Eden Hamond, Challenger 16, Capt. Fred. Edw. Vernon (now Harcourt), and Leveret sloop, Capt. Jonathan Christian. In the Challenger, Mr. Merriman, in 1813, co-operated in the attack upon St. Sebastian, and assisted at the capture of Le Flibustier French national brig, mounting 16 guns, a brass howitzer, and 4 swivels, and laden with treasure, arms, ammunition, and salt provisions. His last appointment was to the Coast Guard, in which service he continued from 27 Nov. 1821 until 17 Oct. 1822. He attained the rank of Lieutenant 27 Feb. 1815. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Menzies, Duncan

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​MENZIES. (Retired Commander, 1816.)
Duncan Menzies was born in March, 1759, and died, 20 Dec. 1846, at 4, Park-place, George-square, Edinburgh. He was uncle by marriage of Capt. Nicholas Lockyer, R.N., C.B.
This officer entered the Navy in 1770, as Midshipman, on board the Hazard sloop, Capt. Ford; and was afterwards, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 1 April, 1781, employed in the Emerald 32, Capt. Moutray, Culloden and Resolution 74’s, Capts. Dundas and Ogle, Culloden again, Capt. Balfour, Sandwich 90, Capt. Young, and Formidable of similar force, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Rodney; assisting during that period at the capture of Ste. Lucie in 1778, in the action off Cape St. Vincent 16 Jan. 1780, and as Aide-de-Camp to the last-mentioned officer at the reduction of St. Eustatius in Feb. 1781. On the occasion of his promotion, as above, Mr. Menzies joined the Alfred 74, Capt. Bayne, in which ship it was his fortune to be present in the memorable action of 12 April, 1782. On that occasion he was one of the officers sent on board the Ville de Paris to receive the sword of the Comte de Grasse. In the course of the same year we find him present at the relief of Gibraltar. He subsequently, during the French revolutionary war, served on board the Belligerent and Inflexible 64’s, Capts. Brine and Jervis, on the West India station; also in the Caton 64; and in command of the Piercer gun-brig. In the latter vessel he accompanied the expedition to Holland in 1799, and assisted at the debarkation of the troops under Sir Ralph Abercromby. During the late war Lieut. Menzies was employed in the Impress service at Falmouth, and in command of the Firm prison-ship at Plymouth. He retired with the rank of Commander 1 Jan. 1816.
Commander Menzies married, in Jan. 1808, Miss Elizabeth Grove, of Falmouth, and by that lady has left issue a son and two daughters.