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# A Poem of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The Keepsake, 1828/Danish Warrior

The Keepsake, in its first year, published all its contents anonymously. This one poem by Letitia Landon is identified because she later included it in her collection ‘The Vow of the Peacock, and Other Poems’ in 1835. It happens also to be one of those selected for reproduction in the Literary Gazette review on 17th November, 1827.
The other poems in this volume remain anonymous. None of them seem to bear the stamp of Landon but I may be mistaken.
THE DANISH WARRIOR'S DEATH SONG.
Away, away! your care is vain;
 No leech could aid me now;
The chill of death is at my heart,
 Its damp upon my brow.
Weep not—I shame to see such tears
 Within a warrior's eyes:
Away! how can ye weep for him
 Who in the battle dies?
If I had died with idle head
 Upon my lady's knee,
Had Fate stood by my silken bed,
 Then might ye weep for me:
But I lie on my own proud deck
 Before the sea and sky;
The wind that sweeps my gallant sails
 Will have my latest sigh.
My banner floats amid the clouds,
 Another droops below:
Well with my heart's best blood is paid
 Such purchase from a foe.
Go ye, and seek my halls, there dwells
 A fair-hair'd boy of mine;
Give him my sword, while yet the blood
 Darkens that falchion's shine.
Tell him, that only other blood
 Should wash such stains away;
And, if he be his father's child,
 There needs no more to say.
Farewell, my bark! farewell, my friends!
 Now fling me on the wave;
One cup of wine, and one of blood,
 Pour on my bounding grave.
# A Poem of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The Juvenile Keepsake, 1830/The Mariner’s Child

THE MARINER’S CHILD TO HIS MOTHER.
BY MISS LANDON.
Oh, weep no more, sweet mother,
Oh, weep no more to-night;—
And only watch the sea, mother,
Beneath the morning light.
Then the bright blue sky is joyful, And the bright blue sky is clear,
And I can see, sweet mother,
To kiss away your tear.
But now the wind goes wailing
O'er the dark and trackless deep,
And I know your grief, sweet mother,
Tho' I only hear you weep.
My father's ship will come, mother.
In safety o'er the main;
When the grapes are dyed with purple,
He will be back again.
The vines were but in blossom
When he bade me watch them grow,
And now the large leaves, mother,
Conceal their crimson glow.
He'll bring us shells and sea-weed,
And birds of shining wing;
But what are these, dear mother?
It is himself he'll bring.
Our beautiful Madonna* Will mark how you have wept,
The prayers of early morning,
The vigils you have kept.
She will guide his stately vessel,
Though the sea be dark and drear, Another week of sunshine,—
My father will be here.
I'll watch with thee, sweet mother,
But the stars fade from my sight, Come, come and sleep, dear mother, Oh, weep no more to-night.
* Alluding to the Hymns to the Virgin.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Howat, William

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​HOWAT. (Commander, 1846.)
William Howat passed his examination in 1820; and was made Lieutenant, 13 Nov. 1826, into the Cyrené 20, Capt. Alex. Campbell, on the East India station, whence he came home with that officer in the Bombay 84, in Sept. 1828. His subsequent appointments were – 4 Jan. 1832, to the Talavera 74, Capts. Thos. Brown and Edw. Chetham, with the latter of whom he returned to England from the Mediterranean and was paid off 12 Feb. 1835 – 25 March, 1836, to the Pembroke 74, Capts. Sir Thos. Fellowes and Fairfax Moresby, in which ship he was for nearly four years employed, part of the time as Midshipman, on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations – 27 Nov. 1841, in the latter capacity, to the Vanguard 80, off Lisbon, where he continued until the summer of 1843 – and, 14 Feb. 1845, again as Senior, to the same ship, then commanded by Capt. Geo. Wickens Willes as part of the Channel squadron. He attained his present rank 9 Nov. 1846; and is now on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hownam, Joseph Robert

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​HOWNAM. (Lieut., 1809. f-p., 11; h-p., 33.)
Joseph Robert Hownam entered the Navy, 13 March, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Africaine 38, Capt. Thos. Manby, stationed in the North Sea; and in the early part of 1804 became Midshipman of the Lively 38, Capt. Graham Eden Hamond. On 5 of the following Oct. the latter frigate had 2 of her men killed and 5 wounded, at the capture, off Cape St. Mary, of three Spanish frigates, laden with treasure, and the destruction of a fourth; and in the course of 1805 we find her sustaining a self-sought and very spirited skirmish with the Spanish 74-gun ship Glorioso. On next ​joining the Centaur 74, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Sam. Hood, Mr. Hownam was present, 25 Sept. 1806, at the capture, by that ship and the Mars and Monarch 74’s, of four heavy French frigates from Rochefort, on which occasion the British Commodore lost his arm. He also attended the expedition of 1807 to Copenhagen, and in Dec. of the same year was at the surrender of Madeira. After an attachment of more than 12 months to the Barfleur 98, flag-ship off Lisbon of Rear-Admirals Wm. Albany Otway and Chas. Tyler, and Lavinia 40, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, he was made Lieutenant, 4 May, 1809, into the Resistance 38, Capts. Chas. Adam, Philip L. J. Rosenhagen, and Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, stationed in the Mediterranean; where, from 22 July, 1813, until he invalided in Jan. 1814, he Was further employed, as Senior, in the Undaunted 38, Capt. Thos. Ussher. On 9 Nov. 1813 Mr. Hownam commanded a detachment of seamen and marines, and distinguished himself by the gallant manner in which he effected the capture of a vigorously defended tower, 30 feet high, together with several batteries in the harbour of Port Nouvelle, where lay seven French vessels, whose destruction was at the same time accomplished. Since he left the Undaunted he has been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hubbard, William (a)

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​HUBBARD. (Commander, 1838.)
William Hubbard entered the Navy, 24 April, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Triumph 74, Capt. Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy, in which ship, and as Midshipman, in the Barfleur 98, he served with the same officer, on the American and Lisbon stations, until March, 1811. Being then appointed Master’s Mate of the Manilla 36, Capts. Geo. Fras. Seymour and John Joyce, he was in that frigate wrecked, on the Haak sand, near the Texel, 28 Jan. 1812; from which period until the peace of 1814, it was his misfortune to be detained a prisoner of war. After again serving for a few months with Sir T. M. Hardy in the Ramillies 74, Mr. Hubbard took up a commission dated 4 March, 1815. His succeeding appointments were – in July, 1816, and Feb. 1817, to the Perseus 22, and Tamar 28, both commanded by Capt. Thos. Rich. Toker, on the Newfoundland station – about April, 1822, to the Ariadne 26, Capts. Constantine Rich. Moorsom and Isham Fleming Chapman, at the Cape of Good Hope – 25 Feb. 1826, to the Prince Regent 120, flag-ship of Sir Robt. Moorsom at the Nore, where he was paid off in July, 1827 – 9 Oct. 1829, as Senior Lieutenant, to the Volage 28, Capt. Lord Colchester, under whom he escorted the ex-Emperor and Empress of Brazil to Cherbourg in April, 1831, and was employed during the winter of 1832 in enforcing the Dutch embargo – and 28 Jan. 1837 (after four years of half-pay), in a similar capacity, to the Malabar 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Augustus Montagu, off Lisbon. He was promoted to the rank of Commander 28 June, 1838 – a few months after the latter ship had been put out of Commission – but has not been since afloat.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Houlton, Robert

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​HOULTON. (Retired Commander, 1840. f-p., 10; h-p., 47.)
Robert Houlton is second son of the late Joseph Houlton, Esq., of Farley Castle, co. Somerset, a Captain in the Army, by Dorothea Sarah, daughter of Chas. Torriano, Esq., Capt. R.A.; and brother (with the present Sir Geo. Houlton, Kt., late Capt. 43rd Regt.) of John Houlton, Esq., Colonel of the 1st Regt. of Somerset Militia, and a Deputy-Lieutenant for that co., who died 17 Feb. 1839 – of Lieut. Joseph Houlton, of the 40th Regt. of Infantry, who died in 1795 – and of Capt. Sam. Houlton, of the 11th Regt. of Native Infantry, who died at Dinapore, in the East Indies, in 1827.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1790, as a Volunteer, on board the Bellona 74, Capt. Fras. John Hartwell, guard-ship at Spithead, and after serving with Capt. Thos. Elphinstone, in the Swan and Atalanta sloops, joined, in 1792, the Courageux 74, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave. After that ship had assisted in the occupation of Toulon, and had been disabled in an engagement at Corsica, Mr. Houlton, while she was being hove down, was sent in the Moselle sloop to Gibraltar for ammunition. On his return to Toulon he was unfortunately captured by the enemy, who detained him in France until 1796. He was then appointed Master’s Mate of the Glenmore 36, Capt. Geo. Duff, stationed in the North Sea; and on 18 May, 1797, he was made Lieutenant into the Triton 32, Capt. John Gore, attached to the force on the French coast. Invaliding, however, in the following year, he did not again go afloat until Dec. 1805, on 15 of which month he obtained an appointment to L’Impétueux 74, Capt. John Lawford, off Brest. In 1806 he joined the Irish Sea Fencibles; and in 1807 he assumed charge of a Signal tower in co. Donegal. The latter, his last appointment, he held but a few months; a serious attack of asthma compelling him to invalid. He became a Retired Commander on the Junior List 26 Nov. 1830, and on the Senior 18 Jan. 1840. Agents – Coplands and Burnett.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Howard, Edward Granville George

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​HOWARD, M.P. (Captain, 1838. f-p., 12; h-p., 12.)
The Honourable Edward Granville George Howard, born 23 Dec. 1809, is fourth son of the present Earl of Carlisle, K.G., by Georgiana, eldest daughter of William, fifth Duke of Devonshire, K.G.; brother of Lord Morpeth, M.P., Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests, of Hon. C. W. G. Howard, M.P., and of Hon. Fred. Geo. Howard, an officer in the Army, who was accidentally killed in Nov. 1834; brother-in-law of the Duke of Sutherland and of the Earl of Burlington; and nephew of Hon. Fred. Howard, Major of Hussars, who was killed at Waterloo, and of the late Duchess of Rutland.
This officer entered the Navy 5 April, 1823; obtained his first commission 19 Sept. 1829; and, from 15 April, 1830, until promoted to the rank of Commander, 3 June, 1833, served in the Mediterranean on board the Pelican 18, Capt. Joseph Gape. His next appointments were, 24 Sept. and 13 Oct. 183G, to the Serpent and Wolverene, of 16 guns each; in the latter of which sloops he was again employed on the Mediterranean station until advanced to the rank he now holds 27 Dec. 1838. He has since been on half-pay.
Capt. Howard has been in Parliament, since 1840, as Member for Morpeth. He married, in 1842, Diana, only daughter of Hon. Geo. Ponsonby, and niece of the present Viscount Ponsonby, G.C.B., and of the late Major-General Sir Wm. Ponsonby, K.C.B. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Howard, Richard

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​HOWARD. (Lieut., 1828. f-p., 18; h-p., 19.)
Richard Howard entered the Navy, 1 Jan. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Diana 38, Capts. Chas. Grant and Wm. Ferris, employed on Channel service. In May, 1812, he became Midshipman of the Colossus 74, Capt. Thos. Alexander, also on the Home station; and between Dec. 1813 and June, 1815, he was employed in North America on board the Saturn 56, Capt. Jas. Nash. Until the early part of 1817 he again served at home in the Surprise 38, and Malta 84, Capts. Sir Thos. John Cochrane and Thos. Gordon Caulfeild. Towards the close of 1818 he joined the Coast Blockade, in the capacity of Admiralty-Mate, having passed his examination in Oct. 1816; and after an attachment of three or four years to it he was successively appointed, with the same rank, to the Rifleman 18, Capts. Jas. Montagu, Wm. Webb, and Wm. Carleton, Briton 46, Capts. Geo. Fras. Seymour and Hon. Wm. Gordon, and Asia 84, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Codrington, on the Halifax and Mediterranean stations. He was made Lieutenant, 5 June, 1828, into the Ocean 98, Capt. Patrick Campbell; but since May, 1830, when he returned from the Mediterranean, and was put out of commission, has been unemployed.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Houstoun, Wallace

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​HOUSTOUN. (Commander, 1842. f-p., 18; h-p., 5.)
Wallace Houstoun entered the Navy 2 Dec. 1824; passed his examination in 1830; obtained his first commission 3 March, 1832; and was appointed – 8 Dec. 1832, to the Childers 18, Capt. Robt. Deans – 10 Jan. 1833, to the Spartiate 76, flag-ship of Sir Michael Seymour in South America – 10 March, 1834, to the Conway 28, Capt. Henry Eden, with whom he returned to England and was paid off in Oct. 1835 – 9 June, 1836, to the Macagascar 44, Capts. Sir John Strutt Peyton and Provo Wm. Parry Wallis, in which ship he served on the North America and West India station, latterly as First-Lieutenant, until put out of commission in the summer of 1839 – 23 July and 27 Oct. 1840, to the Impregnable 104, and Caledonia 120, flag-ships of Sir Graham Moore at Plymouth – and, 17 Aug. 1841, to the Illustrious 72, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Chas. Adam, in North America and the West Indies. Attaining his present rank 7 May, 1842, he was invested with the command, 3 Aug. following, of the Pilot 16, on the station last named; and on 4 March, 1843, was transferred to that of the Imaum 72, bearing the broad pendant at Jamaica of Commodore Alex. Renton Sharpe. He has been on half-pay since June, 1844.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Howes, George

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​HOWES. (Commander, 1847. f-p., 34; h-p., 6.)
George Howes entered the Navy, 23 Jan. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Majestic 74, Capt. Geo. Hart, bearing the flag in the North Sea of Vice-Admiral Thos. Macnamara Russell. Between the following summer and March, 1809, we find him cruizing, part of the time on the Baltic station, in a small vessel commanded by Lieuts. C. C. Dobson and Thos. Mitchell. He was then employed for nine months off Greenwich under the flag of Hon. Sir Henry Edwin Stanhope; and from Dec. 1809 until Aug. 1814, he again served in the North Sea, as Midshipman of the Prospero sloop. The two following years were passed by Mr. Howes (whose first commission bears date 24 Feb. 1815) in the West Indies, as Master’s Mate, Acting-Master, and Supernumerary-Lieutenant, on board the Forester 18, Capt. Wm. Hendry. His subsequent appointments were – 9 June, 1821, 31 May, 1823, and 13 Feb. 1829, in the capacity last-mentioned, to the Severn, Ramillies, and Hyperion Coast Blockade ships, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch, Hugh Pigot, and Wm. Jas. Mingaye – 16 March, 1831, to the Coast Guard – and 22 June, 1843, and 17 Jan. 1846, to the command of the Mermaid and Ranger Revenue-vessels. He was advanced to his present rank 1 Jan. 1847; and is now on half-pay.
Commander Howes is married and has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Howell, Joseph Benjamin

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​HOWELL. (Commander, 1816. f-p., 16; h-p., 32.)
Joseph Benjamin Howell, is brother-in-law of Capt. Wm. Blight, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, in April, 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Success 32, Capt. Shuldham Peard. Continuing in that frigate until captured, 13 Feb. 1801, by a French squadron under M. Ganteaume, he was for nearly the whole of the time employed at the blockade of Malta, and assisted at the taking, 18 Feb. and 24 Aug. 1800, of the French 74-gun ship Le Généreux, and 40-gun frigate La Diane. On his release from captivity in March, 1801, he was nominated Midshipman of the Hector 74, Capts. Thos. Elphinstone and Wm. Skipsey, and after participating in the operations connected with the Egyptian expedition, he successively joined the Woolwich 44, Capt. Rich. Bridges, Gladiator, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral John Holloway, Blenheim 74, Capt. Bouverie, and Prévoyante store-ship, Master-Commander Wm. Brown; and he was next, between May, 1803, and Sept. 1805, employed under Lords Northesk and Gardner, in the Britannia 100, Hibernia 110, and Trent frigate, on the Channel and Irish stations. On 21 Oct. 1805 Mr. Howell was confirmed to the rank of Sub-Lieutenant in the Turbulent gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Spearing Osmer, lying at Plymouth. The 22 of the following Jan. was marked by his promotion to a full Lieutenancy in the Gibraltar 80, Capts. Wm. Lukin, Willoughby Thos. Lake, John Halliday, Jas. Johnstone, and Henry Lidgbird Ball, with whom we find him continuously serving on the Channel station until appointed, 27 April, 1808, to the Dryad 36, Capts. Adam Drummond and Edw. Galwey. During the whole of the siege of Flushing in 1809, he officiated on shore in command of a party of seamen attached to General Houston’s brigade. On that occasion he superintended the erection of a battery of 6 24-pounders, and while in command of it had one Master’s Mate and more than half his men killed. The exertions of Mr. Howell on this service were so conspicuous as to obtain for him an earnest recommendation to notice. When afterwards on the north coast of Spain, he was detached for a period of 21 days in an open Spanish boat with 25 men, for the purpose of stopping the enemy’s supplies. While on the same station he contrived, with the boats of a squadron under his orders, to effect the destruction of 20 large guns mounted on different batteries. On 26 Feb. 1814 he witnessed the capture of the French frigate La Clorinde, of 44 guns. The Dryad, of which he had been three years First-Lieutenant, being paid off in April, 1814, he was next, in Oct. 1815 and March, 1816, appointed in a similar capacity to the Eridanus 36, and Minden 74, both commanded by Capt. Wm. Paterson. The part taken by Mr. Howell in the latter ship at the bombardment of Algiers, was rewarded with a Commander’s commission dated 16 Sept. 1816. He has since been on half-pay.
Commander Howell married, 1 Oct. 1823, Patience Blackburrow, youngest daughter of the Rev. Wm. George, M. A., Vicar of North Petherton, co. Somerset, by whom he has issue two sons and three daughters. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
# A Shropshire Lad/When smoke stood up from Ludlow

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# A Shropshire Lad/When the lad for longing sighs

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# A Sickness of this World it most occasions

A Sickness of this World it most occasions When Best Men die. A Wishfulness their far Condition To occupy.
A Chief indifference, as Foreign A World must be Themselves forsake — contented, For Deity.
# A Puritan Bohemia/Chapter 20
### CHAPTER XX

"Love is begun: this much is come to pass.
The rest is easy."
In a Balcony, Browning.
The heavy door of the Inebriate Asylum closed with a thud behind Mrs. Kent. She turned her face toward home. The wicked old woman was safe at last behind that iron door.
All about, laughing Italian children were playing in the sun. Above was the glory of May sunshine. Mrs. Kent felt a sudden reaction from a long strain. Her anger with the unnatural mother was melting into a sense of deep kinship. Her pity came back upon herself with a sense of forgiven sin.
"For none may walk in perfect white
Till every soul be clean,"
she murmured.
Across the warm air came strains of ​funeral music. There was a beat of muffled drums. The Roman Catholic church near by was draped for a soldier's funeral.
Mrs. Kent stood still while the slow procession passed. The colours of the flag shone bright against the sombre crepe. She watched the faces of the mourners, comic in their self-importance, or tear-stained with real grief. Then she went on.
The rude music turned her walk into a march of triumph. She had found at last the way of the wandering of her feet. These grimy alleys had led her to a goal. Grief had solved her problem in making her aware of the encompassing grief. Life with sorrow in it was a better thing than life without sorrow could be.
"After knowing joy like that and pain like that, one has a right to share every trouble," she whispered.
She looked at the passing faces and smiled. A larger life was hers. This was her people. Her life was one with theirs, the sin of it, the suffering of it. The music of their funerals was sounding ​for her dead. She had cared for that child as if it had been her own, and the touch of its mother's hands had been as the touch of dear dead hands upon hers.
Then her own sorrow came sharply back to her.
"Oh," she cried under her breath, "if I could only forget, forget——"
Would forgetting her own hurt mean forgetting the world's pain? She walked swiftly on in half-ecstatic weariness. Just now it seemed that the glory and the grief of life are one.
As she entered the Square she was conscious of colour and of fragrance. The young leaves on the elms and the willows shimmered in the sun. Flower-boys stood at the corners with their baskets. The odour of new grass was in the air.
At the entrance to the studio building stood Anne with Howard Stanton. He stooped and picked a bunch of violets from a basket for her. The sound of their laughter and the chirping of the birds drifted to Mrs. Kent's ears.
​Mrs. Kent looked at them with pity in her eyes. They were so happy, she thought, misunderstanding. She, who had suffered the extreme hurt, was safe and sheltered in her great grief. She could not be afraid again.
Then once more that sudden sense of her own hurt smote her, and her life went out in the cry of the human heart for its own. A pitying wind had blown her long black veil across her face.
# A Reprimand

Behold my soul—she sits so far above you
* "A Reprimand" in The New Penelope (1877)
* "A Reprimand" in Poems (1900)
# A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen/Beatson, Robert, LL.D.

From volume 1 of the work.
​BEATSON, Robert, LL.D. an ingenious and useful author, was as a native of Dysart, where he was born in 1742. Being educated with a view to the military profession, he obtained an ensigncy in 1756, at the commencement of the seven years' war. He served next year in the expedition to the coast of France, and afterwards, as lieutenant, in the attack on Martinique, and the taking of Guadaloupe. In 1766, he retired on half-pay, and did not again seek to enter into active life till the breaking out of the American war. Having failed on this occasion to obtain an appointment suitable to his former services, he resolved to apply himself to another profession that of literature for which he had all along had considerable taste. His publications were, 1, "A Political Index to the Histories of Great Britain and Ireland," 1 vol. 8vo. 1786, of which a third edition in 3 volumes was published at a late period of his life. This work consists chiefly of accurate and most useful lists of all the ministers and other principal officers of the state, from the earliest time to the period of its publication. 2, "Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain, from 1727 to the present time," 3 vols. 8vo. 1790; 2nd edition, 6 vols. 1804. 3, "View of the Memorable Action of the 27th of July, 1778," 8vo. 1791. 4, "Essay on the Comparative Advantages of Vertical and Horizontal Windmills," 8vo. 1798, 5, "Chronological Register of both Houses of Parliament, from 1706 to 1807," 3 vols. 8vo. 1807. Besides some communications to the board of agriculture, of which he was an honorary member. This laborious author enjoyed in his latter years the situation of barrack-master at Aberdeen, where, if we are not mistaken, he received his degree of LL.D. He died at Edinburgh, January 24, 1818.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Boys, George Sayer

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​BOYS. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
George Sayer Boys passed his examination 4 Aug. 1835; and served, as Mate, on the Mediterranean, Home, and Cape of Good Hope stations, in the Vernon 50, Capt. Wm. Walpole, Albion 90, Capt. Nich. Lockyer, and Mutine 12, Capt. Rich. Borough Crawford. He obtained his commission 13 Aug. 1845; became, a few days afterwards, Additional-Lieutenant of the Winchester 50, flag-ship at the Cape of Hon. Josceline Percy; removed, 23 Nov. following, to the Thunderbolt steam-sloop, Capt. Alex. Boyle, on the same station); and since 21 Aug. 1846, has been employed in the East Indies as First of the Childers 12, Capt. John Charles Pitman.