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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Janns, Charles

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​JANNS. (Retired Commander, 1842. f-p., 11; h-p., 36.)
Charles Janns entered the Navy, 29 July, 1800, as a Supernumerary, on board the Puissant 74, receiving-ship at Spithead, Capt. Symes; removed, in the course of the same year, to the Suffisant, Capts. Jonas Rose, ___ Whitman, and Christopher John Williams Nesham, stationed in the Channel; served, from Oct. 1801 until Nov. 1806, at Home and in North America, on board the Jamaica 24, Capts. Jonas Rose and John Dick; then rejoined Capt. Rose in the Agamemnon 64, lying at the Nore; and on 24 March, 1807, was made Lieutenant into the Alligator, Capt. Campbell. In the following Aug., having received an appointment to the Inflexible 64, Capt. Joshua Rowley Watson ​he accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen. He afterwards served – from Feb. 1808 until he invalided in Jan. 1811 – on the Channel, Bay of Biscay, and Mediterranean stations, in the Éclair sloop; which vessel, during the illness of her proper Captain, Chas. Kempthorne Quash, he personally commanded at the defence of Sicily in 1810. The latter was his last appointment. He accepted his present rank 19 July, 1842. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jefferies, John Head

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​JEFFERIES. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 38; h-p., 3.)
John Head Jefferies entered the Navy, 12 Feb. 1806, as A.B., on board the Captain 74, commanded in the Channel by Capt. Stevens. He became Midshipman, in the following July, of the Ocean 98, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Lord Collingwood; removed, in July, 1809, to the Milford 74, Capts. Henry Wm. Bayntun and Edw. Kittoe, stationed in the Channel and off Cadiz; joined, in Aug. 1811, the Franchise frigate, Capt. Rich. Buck, again in the Mediterranean; and was next, from Sept. 1814 until Aug. 1816, employed on the East India station, chiefly as Master’s Mate and Acting-Lieutenant, in the Favorite 20, Capt. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude, Camelion 10, Capt. Low, Leda 38, Capt. Geo. Sayer, and Philomel 10, Capt. Jas. Hanway Plumridge. Lieut. Jefferies, whose commission bears date 8 June, 1815, has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard ever since 17 March, 1820.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jamison, William Papillon

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​JAMISON. (Lieutenant, 1840.)
William Papillon Jamison entered the Navy 27 April, 1827; passed his examination in 1833; and obtained his commission 23 March, 1840. His succeeding appointments appear to have been – 30 May, 1840, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the Winchester 50, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Harvey in North America and the West Indies – 7 March, 1841, to the Pilot 16, Capt. Geo. Ramsay, on the same station – 29 Nov. 1842, to the Thunderbolt steam-vessel, Capt. Geo. Nathaniel Broke, under whom he served at the Cape of Good Hope, for some time as First-Lieutenant – 2 Sept. 1845, to the President 50, fitting at Portsmouth for the flag of Rear-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres – and, 4 Feb. 1846, again as Senior, to the Thunderbolt, Capt. Alex. Boyle, in which vessel he was wrecked in Algoa Bay in Feb. 1847.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jeffery, Bartholomew

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​JEFFERY. (Lieut., 1837. f-p., 22; h-p., 5.)
Bartholomew Jeffery is nephew of Commander John Molesworth, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy in 1820; passed his examination 1 Nov. 1826; and obtained his commission 10 Jan. 1837. His appointments have since been – 8 Sept. 1837, to the Thunder surveying-vessel, Lieut.-Commanders Bird Allen and Edw. Barnett, on the North America and West India station – 27 Oct. 1838, to the Magnificent receiving-ship at Jamaica, Commodore Peter John Douglas – for a few months in 1840-1, to the Transport Servite – and 3 Jan. 1846, to the Coast Guard, in which service he is now employed.
Lieut. Jeffery, who had been left a widower with three children, married, secondly, 25 April, 1845, his cousin Mary Anne, youngest daughter of the late John and Hon. Jane Stephenson, and niece of the late General Sir Benj. C. Stephenson, K.C.G.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jay, Charles Hawse

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​JAY. (Commander, 1841.)
Charles Hawse Jay entered the Navy, 1 May, 1801, as A.B., on board the Monmouth 64, Capt. Geo. Hart, under whom (we except an attachment of a few months in 1803-4 to the Amphion 32, Capt. Sam. Sutton) he continued to serve, on the Mediterranean and North Sea stations, the greater part of the time as Midshipman, until May, 1805. He was then borne for a few months, as a Supernumerary, on the books of the Winchelsea frigate, Capt. Wm. Cockraft, lying at Sheerness, whence, towards the close of the same year, he returned to the Mediterranean in the Standard 64, Capt. Thos. Harvey. After assisting at the passage of the Dardanells in Feb. 1807, on which occasion he was slightly wounded, Mr. Jay, on Capt. Aiskew Paffard Hollis succeeding to the command of the Standard, proceeded to the Baltic. Arrived on that station, he removed, in Jan. 1810, to the Snipe cutter, Lieut.Commander Chas. Champion, and was there actively employed until June, 1811. During the next two years he presents himself to our notice as serving atSheerness on board the Raisonnable 64, Capts. Thos. New, Chas. Hewitt, and Edw. Sneyd Clay; and from July, 1813, until July, 1814, we find him in command, the last six months with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, of the gun-boats Nos. 14 and 19, on the north coast of Spain. On his return to Sheerness Mr. Jay was received as a Supernumerary on board the Namur 74, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Williams. During the few months immediately antecedent to his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant 6 Feb. 1815, he served, it appears, in the Venerable 74, bearing the flag in the West Indies of the late Sir Philip Durham. His next appointments were – 15 July, 1818, to the Ontario 18, Capt. Geo. Gosling, fitting at Plymouth – and, 13 Sept. 1822, and 31 May, 1823, to the Severn and Ramillies Coast-Blockade ships, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot. He has held the office, since 26 June, 1828, of Superintendent of Semaphores at the Admiralty. The commission he at present holds bears date 22 Oct. 1841.
Commander Jay, in consideration of the wound he received at the Dardanells, obtained a pecuniary grant from the Patriotic Society. He is married, and has issue. Agent – Fred. Dufaur.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jeffreys, George Barbor

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​JEFFREYS. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
George Barbor Jeffreys entered the Navy 27 March, 1828; passed his examination in 1834; and was for some time Mate of the Pylades 18, Capt. Talavera Vernon Anson. While so attached, he shared in the principal operations in China, where (besides commanding a boat at the capture of one out of three piratical junks) he served with the flotilla at the taking of several rafts and of the last fort protecting the approaches to the city of Canton, 13 March, 1841 – was similarly employed at the capture of that city on 18 of the same month – and, during the second series of operations against it, was again employed in the boats at the destruction of the whole line of defences extending about two miles from the British factory. Being rewarded for these services by commission dated 6 May, 1841, and successively appointed to the Wellesley 72, Commodore Sir J. J. Gordon Bremer, and Blonde 42, Capt. Thos. Bourchier, he further assisted at the capture of Amoy, Chusan, and Chinghae. He subsequently joined – 22 Jan. 1842, the Wellesley again, Capt. Thos. Maitland – 20 Sept. 1842, the Alfred 50, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore John Brett Purvis on the South American station – 11 May, 1844, after an interval of a few months, the same ship – 1 Aug. 1844, as First-Lieutenant, the Frolic 16, Capt. Cospatrick Baillie Hamilton, in the Pacific – and 13 June, 1846, the Talbot 26, Capt. Sir Thos. Raikes Trigge Thompson, with whom he returned to England in 1847.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jauncey, Horatio

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​JAUNCEY. (Commander, 1843. f-p., 23; h-p., 8.)
Horatio Jauncey is eldest surviving son of Capt. Henry Fyge Jauncey, R.N. (1821), who died in July, 1834.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Aug. 1816, as Fst.-cl. Vol,, on board the Hope 10, commanded by his father in the Channel; and, from Oct. 1818 until July, 1822, served on the Irish and West India stations in the Tribune 42, Capt. Nesbit Josiah Willoughby. He then joined the Gloucester 74, flag-ship at Chatham of Sir Benj. Hallowell; and in the following Dec, after having passed his examination, he sailed for South America in the Briton 46, Capt. Sir Murray Maxwell. Returning to England in Sept. 1826, Mr. Jauncey was next, in March, 1827, nominated to a Mateship in the Hussar 46, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Ogle at Halifax, where he continued until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 26 Feb. 1830. His appointments in the latter capacity were – 10 Dec. 1833, to the Endymion 50, Capt. Sir Sam. Roberts, on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations – and, 28 Dec. 1836, 3 Nov. 1840, and 17 Jan. 1843, as Senior, to the Snake 16, Capts. Alex. Milne and John Baker Porter Hay, Vernon 50, Capt. Wm. Walpole, and Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir David Milne, on the West India, Mediterranean, and Plymouth stations. He was advanced to his present rank in honour of a visit paid by Her Majesty to the Caledonia 25 Sept. 1843; and has been employed, since 16 Nov. 1846, as Second-Captain of the Albion 90, part of the Channel squadron. Agents- Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Cembalo

From volume 1 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Cesti, Antonio

From volume 1 of the work.
​CESTI, Antonio, was an ecclesiastic, a native of Arezzo according to Baini, whom Fétis follows, but of Florence according to Adami. He was born about 1620, and in due course became a pupil of Carissimi. He was made a member of the papal choir on Jan. 1, 1660. Bertini says that he was subsequently Maestro di Cappella to the Emperor Ferdinand III.
The bent of Cesti's genius was towards the theatre, and he did much for the progress of the musical drama in Italy. Bertini says of him—'Contribui molto ai progressi del teatro drammatico in Italia, riformando la monotona salmodia che allova vi regnava, e transportando ed adattando al teatro le cantate inventate dal suo maestro per la chiesa.' That he owed much to his master Carissimi, as he did to his contemporary Cavalli, whose operas were then in vogue at Venice, cannot be doubted, but that he deserves to be dismissed as the plagiarist of either of them is untrue.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Cello

From volume 1 of the work.
​CELLO, a contraction of Violoncello.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Cerone, Domenico

From volume 1 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Certon, Pierre

From volume 1 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Cervetto

From volume 1 of the work.
​CERVETTO. The name of two eminent violoncello players of the last century.
1. It was the sobriquet of Giacomo Bassevi, born in Italy 1682. He came to England and joined the orchestra of Drury Lane in 1728. The cello was not then known in England, but Cervetto, though his tone is said to have been coarse and his execution not remarkable, made it a popular instrument. Probably there was something genial and attractive in the personality of the man. He had a very large nose, and it was a favourite joke to call to him from the gallery, 'Play up, nosey'—an expression still heard in the theatres. That he was a man of humour is shewn by an anecdote given in the books. Garrick was playing a drunken man, and ended by throwing himself into a chair. At this moment, the house being quite still, Cervetto gave a long and loud yawn, on which Garrick started up, and coming to the footlights demanded furiously what he meant. 'I beg your pardon,' said Cervetto, 'but I always gape when I am particularly enjoying myself.' He became manager of Drury Lane, and died January 14, 1783, over 100, leaving £20,000 to his son.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Cembal d'Amore

From volume 1 of the work.
​CEMBAL D'AMORE translated is 'harpsichord of love,' but according to Adlung ('Musica Mechanica') this instrument did not belong to the clavicembalo or harpsichord genus, but to that of the clavichord. The strings, he states, were as long again as in the ordinary clavichord, and the tangents which produced the tone from the strings, instead of touching them near to their left-hand terminations, made the impact exactly in the middle of their whole length between the bridges, of which there were two instead of one as in the clavichord, and two soundboards of unequal forms and dimensions. Both halves of the strings were thus set in vibration simultaneously, which necessitated the use of a different damping contrivance to the simple one of the clavichord. In the cembal d'amore the strings lay upon the damping cloth, instead of its being woven between them, and small wooden uprights supported it. The strings were therefore damped when at rest; when raised upwards by the tangents they were free to vibrate, and remained so as long as the keys were pressed down. The form of a cembal d'amore was that of an English spinet with the keyboard to the right hand of the player instead of the left, thus reversing the extension of the instrument laterally. Adlung attributed to it more tone than the ordinary clavichord, and more capability of bebend effect by the gently reiterated movement of the key. But too much pressure on the key would affect the intonation as in a clavichord. In estimating its dynamic power he places the cembal d'amore far behind the pianoforte, though beyond the clavichord. Mattheson (Critica Musica) refers to it and to a parallel between the Florentine (pianoforte) and Freiberg (cembal d'amore) in a bantering tone. Gottfried Silbermann of Freiberg (1683–1753) invented it, and Hähnel of Meissen attempted to improve it by adding a 'Celestine' register. Others, as Oppelmann and Hasse of Hamburg, made the instrument.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Cevallos, Francisco

From volume 1 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Cellier, Alfred

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Cenerentola, La

From volume 1 of the work.
​CENERENTOLA, LA, opera on the story of Cinderella, by Rossini, libretto by Feretti; produced at the Teatro Valle in Rome at the carnival, 1817, at the King's Theatre, London, (much mutilated), Jan. 8, 1820, and at the Théatre des Italiens, Paris, June 8, 1822. Its favourite numbers are 'Miei rampolli,' 'Un segreto d'importanza,' and 'Non piu mesta.'
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Casey, David O'Brien

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​CASEY. (Lieut., 1799. f-p., 29; h-p., 29.)
David O'Brien Casey entered the Navy, in 1789, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Hyaena 24, Capts. John Aylmer, Jas. Kinneer, and Wm. Hargood, which ship, the first lost by the British during the war, was captured by the French 40-gun frigate Concorde, off Hispaniola, 27 May, 1793. On regaining his liberty soon afterwards, Mr. Casey obtained a Midshipman’s berth in the Hermione 32, Capts. John Hill and Philip Wilkinson, also on the Jamaica station; where, in 1795-6, he became successively attached to the Raisonnable 64, and Swiftsure 74, both flag-ships of Rear-Admiral Wm. Parker, and, as Acting-Lieutenant, to. the Ambuscade 32, Capt. Thos. Twysden; and where he rejoined, early in 1797, the Hermione, then commanded by Capt. Hugh Pigot. A fearful mutiny, on 23 Sept. following, broke out among the crew of the latter ship, and, in the general massacre of the officers which ensued, Mr. Casey, the Master, Gunner, Carpenter, and Cook, were the only persons who escaped destruction. Of these, the subject of this sketch is now the only survivor. On his subsequent return to England, after a captivity of some months at La Guayra, on the Spanish Main, Mr. Casey in succession joined, on the Home station, the Achilles 74, Capts. Hon. Henry Edwin Stanhope and Geo. Murray, Royal George 100, bearing the flag of Lord Bridport, and, as Acting-Lieutenant, the Monarch 74, Capt. T. R. Mosse, and another ship, the name of which we do not happen to possess. He was confirmed, 11 Oct. 1799, into the Nemesis 28, Capt. Thos. Baker, and, on 12 Jan. and 25 July, 1800, appears, while cruizing in the Channel, to have assisted at the capture of Le Renard a heavy privateer, and, after a sharp struggle of 25 minutes, of the Danish frigate Freija, and convoy. Towards the close of the latter year we find him, as First Lieutenant of Le Sensible, Capt. Robt. Tause, sailing for the East Indies, where he continued two years; after which he served, until 1805, in the Magicienne and Fortunée frigates, Capt. Henry Vansittart – again, as First Lieutenant, in the Merlin sloop, Capt. Robt. Forbes – and in the Astrea 32, Capt. Jas. Carthew, on the Home and West India stations. He afterwards for eight years commanded a Signal station and a body of Sea Fencibles in Ireland; and was then appointed, 6 March and 10 May, 1813, to the Albion 74, Capt. John Ferris Devonshire, fitting out at Chatham, and, as Senior, to the Clarence 74, Capts. H. Vansittart and Fred. Warren, with whom he served, off Brest, until Aug. 1814. On 6 Dec. 1835, he next obtained charge of the Semaphore at Putney; but resigned that employment on being appointed, 15 Oct. 1839, to the Royal Hospital at Greenwich.
Lieut. Casey is married, and has, with other issue, a son, Thomas Page, Second Lieutenant, R.M. (1843), now serving in the Mediterranean, on board the America 50, Capt. Hon. John Gordon.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Cary, Plantagenet Pierrepont

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​CARY. (Captain, 1839. f-p., 16; h-p., 11.)
The Honourable Plantagenet Pierrepont Cary , born 8 Sept. 1806, is second son of the eighth Viscount Falkland, Capt. R.N. (who died 2 March, 1809, from the effects of a wound received in a duel), by Miss Christiana Anson, his wife; and brother of the present Viscount Falkland, Lieut.-Gov. of Nova Scotia, as likewise of Commander the Hon. B. C. F. P. Cary, R.N.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 10 Aug. 1820; and embarked, in 1822, as Midshipman, on board the Phaeton 46,.Capt. Henry Evelyn Pitfield Sturt, employed successively in the West Indies and Mediterranean. In 1824 he proceeded to the East Indies in the Boadicea 46, Capt. Sir Jas. Brisbane, in the boats of which frigate he served during the Burmese war. He afterwards joined, in the Mediterranean, the Warspite 76, Capts. Rich. Saunders Dundas and Wm. Parker, and Wellesley 74, Capt. Sir Fred. Lewis Maitland; and, having passed his examination in 1827, was there promoted, ​2 Dec. 1829, into the Dartmouth 42, Capt. Sir Thos. Fellowes. Lieut. Cary’s next appointments were – 24, Nov. 1830, and 27 Jan. 1832, to the Prince Regent 120, and Ocean 80, flag-ships at Sheerness of Sir John Poo Beresford – and, 13 June, 1833, and 10 March, 1834, to the Conway 28, Capt. Henry Eden, and Spartiate 76, bearing the flag of Sir Mich. Seymour on the South American station. He obtained his second commission 31 Oct. 1834 – was appointed, 28 Feb. 1837, to command the Comus 18, in the West Indies – became a Post-Captain 9 May, 1839 – and has since been on half-pay.
Capt. Cary married, 27 April, 1843, Mary Ann, only child of J. F. Maubert, Esq., of Norwood, co. Surrey. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Caswell, Thomas

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​CASWELL. (Lieut., 1820. f-p., 12; h-p., 22.)
Thomas Caswell entered the Navy, 15 May, 1813, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Amphion 32, Capts. Jas. Pattison Stewart, John Brett Purvis, and Wm. Bowles, with whom he successively served, latterly as Midshipman, off Bermuda and on the Home station, where we believe he assisted at the capture of the islands of Schouwen and Tholen, until Oct. 1815. He then sailed for the East Indies in the Magicienne 36, flag-ship of Sir Rich. King, and on his return to England, in Aug. 1819, was appointed to the Coast Blockade, as Admiralty-Midshipman of the Severn 50, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch. Having obtained his commission, 3 March, 1820, Mr. Caswell was again employed on the latter service, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies and Talavera 74’s, Capt. Hugh Pigot, from 13 Feb. 1829, until some time in the following year. He afterwards, on 31 March, 1832, obtained a command in the Coast Guard; but has been on half-pay since 1835. Agents – Coplands and Burnett.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Cater, Charles Joseph

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​CATER. (Lieut., 1809. f-p., 17; h-p., 26.)
Charles Joseph Cater was born 14 Dec. 1788, and died 31 July, 1845. He was youngest son of the late Henry Cater, Esq., Attorney-at-law, of Great James Street, London; and brother of the late Mr. Sam. Cater, R.N. , who, after having served in the battles of Camperdown and Copenhagen, was lost, as Master’s Mate, in the Scout 18, Capt. Henry Duncan, 25 March, 1801.
This officer entered the Navy, in June, 1802, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Magicienne 32, Capt. Henry Vansittart, with whom he subsequently sailed for the West Indies, as Midshipman of the Fortunée 36, and there assisted at the capture of a Spanish packet, of which, with another Midshipman and 22 men, he was placed in charge. A few days afterwards, the prize having been rendered totally unserviceable in a gale of wind, Mr. Cater and his party were compelled to abandon her, and, on landing at Vera Cruz, were marched up the country, as prisoners of war, to Pueblos de los Angelos, where they were detained for the space of 15 months. On at length regaining his liberty, the subject of this sketch rejoined the Fortunée, then on the coast of Ireland; after which he was transferred to the Bellerophon 74, flag-ship of Lord Gardner off the Texel, and, on 28 Feb. 1809, appointed Lieutenant of the Ephera brig, Capts. John Strutt Peyton and Thos. Everard, under the latter of whom he was wrecked, near Cadiz, 26 Dec. 1811. His subsequent appointments appear to have been – 29 Feb. 1812, to the Savage sloop, Capt. Wm. Bissell, on the Portsmouth station – 12 March, 1814, to the Terror bomb, Capts. John Sheridan and Constantino Rich. Moorsom, in which he served, until the peace, up the Chesapeake and along the coast to Cumberland Sound – and, 25 Oct. 1815, as First Lieutenant, to the Nimrod 18, Capts. John Macpherson Ferguson and John Windham Dalling, on the Leith station. He was paid off 24 June, 1819, and was not afterwards employed.
Lieut. Cater married, 10 Aug. 1830, Clarissa Dorothy, second daughter of the late Lieut.-Col. Thos. John Stirling, R.M., grand-daughter of the late Lieut.-Col. T. Stirling, R.M., and sister of the present Lieut. Spencer Stirling, R.N., by whom he has left an only daughter.