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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Fortescue, Henry

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​FORTESCUE. (Lieut., 1823. f-p., 9; h-p., 27.)
Henry Fortescue entered the Navy, 27 April, 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Christian VII. 80, Capt. Geo. Chas. Mackenzie, employed in the North Sea, where he followed that officer, in Feb. 1812, into the Impregnable 98. From July, 1813, until April, 1818, he Successively served, on the North American, Irish, Home, Mediterranean, and East India stations, in the Endymion 40, Capt. Henry Hope, Saturn 74, Capts. Jas. Nash and Thos. Brown, Franchise 36, Capt. Sir Thos. John Cochrane, St. George and Impregnable 98’s, both commanded by Capt. Jas. Nash, and Minden 74, Capt. Wm. Paterson – in which latter ship he shared in the bombardment of Algiers, 27 Aug. 1816. In Dec. 1821, Mr. Fortescue joined the Andromache frigate, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Joseph Nourse at the Cape of Good Hope, where he became Acting-Lieutenant, in Nov. 1822, of the Menai 24, Capt. Fairfax Moresby. He was officially promoted 5 April, 1823, but since Sept. in that year has been unemployed.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Foster, Henry Decolas

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​FOSTER. (Lieutenant, 1828.)
Henry Decolas Foster entered the Navy 23 July, 1813; passed his examination in 1819; and obtained his commission 6 Sept. 1828. He was afterwards employed for some time in the Helicon 10, Capt. Robt. Henry Stanhope. He joined the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, 26 Nov. 1830; entered the Coast Guard 5 April, 1831; was transferred, as First-Lieutenant, to the Stag 46, Capt. Thos. Ball Sulivan, on the South American station, 6 Dec. 1836; returned to England in 1839, after an absence of more than two years; and, since 9 Oct. 1840, has again been in the Coast Guard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Forsyth, Charles Codrington

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​FORSYTH. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
Charles Codrington Forsyth entered the Navy 18 Dec. 1826; passed his examination 25 Nov. 1836; and for several years immediately preceding his promotion, which took place 31 Oct. 1843, served, as Mate, on board the Beagle surveying-vessel at Australia, Capts. John Clements Wickham and John Lort Stokes. Since 1 Jan. 1844, he has been employed at the Cape of Good Hope, on board the Helena 16, Capt. Sir Cornwallis Rioketts.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Forsyth, William Codrington

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​FORSYTH. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
William Codrington Forsyth passed his examination 15 July, 1833; obtained an appointment in the Coast Guard 24 Feb. 1840; and, in 1844, removed to the Volcano steam-sloop, Lieut.-Commanders Edw. Chas. Miller and John Hay Crang, on the Mediterranean station. He was there promoted to a Lieutena,ncy, 1 Dec. 1845, in the Hibernia 104, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker; and, since 23 Jan. 1847, has been serving with the Channel squadron on board the Albion 90.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Fosbery, Godfrey

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​FOSBERY. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 8; h-p., 32.)
Godfrey Fosbery, born 24 Sept. 1791, is son of the late Fras. Fosbery, Esq., of Curragh Bridge, co. Limerick, by Philippa, sister of the late Sir Wm. Godfrey, Bart., of Kilcoleman Abbey, co. Kerry, and aunt of the late Dowager Marchioness of Donegal. He is cousin and brother-in-law of the present Geo. Fosbery, Esq., of Clorane and Curragh Bridge.
This officer entered the Navy, 7 Feb. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board La Virginie, of 46 guns and 281 men, Capt. Edw. Brace, on the Irish station. While in that ship, independently of the capture of two Spanish privateers carrying 14 guns each, he assisted in taking, 19 May, 1808, the Dutch frigate Guelderland, of 36 guns and 253 men, after an obstinate conflict of an hour and a half, in which the enemy lost 25 men killed and 50 wounded, and the British 1 killed and 2 wounded. On 16 Jan. 1810, Mr. Fosbery, who had attained the rating of Midshipman, was taken prisoner while on board a prize off Ushant. Being released in May, 1814, he joined for a few weeks, as a Supernumerary, the Prince 98, Capt. Geo. Fowke, lying at Spithead. He obtained his commission 16 March, 1815; and has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Fosbery, who now holds the office of Inspector of the City of London Police Force, married, 21 Aug. 1823, Catherine Lyons, daughter of the late John Walcott, Esq., of Croagh Walcott, co. Limerick, and has had issue 12 children, 9 of whom are living.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Forster, George Brooke

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​FORSTER. (Lieutenant, 1812.)
George Brooke Forster entered the Navy, 1 Nov. 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Phoebe 36, Capts. Thos. Baker, Jas. Keith Shephard, and Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel, under whom he served, on the Irish and Mediterranean stations, until May, 1805. With the exception of a few months in 1808-9 he appears to have been next employed, under Sir Sam. Hood, as Midshipman, from Jan. 1806, to Dec. 1812, in the Centaur 74, Hibernia 110, Tigre 74, Owen Glendower 36, and Illustrious 74. While in the Centaur he assisted, 25 Sept. 1806, at the capture, in company with the Mars and Monarch 74’s, of four French frigates from Rochefort, on which occasion Sir Sam. Hood lost his arm. He attended also the expedition to Copenhagen in Aug. and Sept. 1807 – witnessed the ensuing surrender of the island of Madeira – and, in Aug. 1809, was engaged, under Capt. Wm. Henry Webley, in the attack upon Walcheren. Being in the East Indies at the time of his promotion, which took place 27 Dec. 1812, he there joined the Theban 36, Capt. Stephen Thos. Digby, but he soon afterwards returned home with Capt. Alex. Skene in the Illustrious, and on 17 Feb. 1814 was paid off. From May, 1814, until wrecked, 11 Feb. 1817, he further officiated as an Agent for Transports afloat; after which he served for some time as an Inspecting Officer of the Water Guard, and as Commander, in 1826-8, of the Dove and Lapwing Falmouth packets. Since he left the latter vessel he has been on half-pay.
Lieut. Forster at present holds the appointment of Police Magistrate at Van Diemen’s Land. He is married and has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Forster, Matthew Charles

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​FORSTER. (Commander, 1847. f-p., 21; h-p., 11.)
Matthew Charles Forster is son of the late Colonel Forster, of Gatcombe House, co. Hants. This officer entered the Navy, 17 Jan. 1815, as a Volunteer, on board the Cornwallis 74, Capt. John Bayley, bearing the flag in the East Indies of his patron, Sir George Burlton. Previously to passing his examination, in June, 1821, he further served, as Volunteer and Midshipman, in the Doris 42, and Wye 26, both commanded by Capt. John Harper, and in the Hind 20, Capt. Sir Chns. Burrard, on the same and on the North American and Channel stations. He then successively joined, as Mate, on the Brazilian, Home, North American, and Mediterranean stations, the Doris again, Capts. Thos. Graham, Fred; Edw. Venables Vernon, and Wm. Jas. Hope Johnstone, Albion 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Hoste, Victory 104, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Martin, Manly 12, Capt. Field, and Hussar 46, and Britannia 120, flag-ships of Sir Chas. Ogle and Sir Pulteney Malcolm. He attained the rank of Lieutenant 22 Oct. 1830, and was subsequently appointed – for two months to the Ferret 10, Capt. Edw. Wodehouse, in the Mediterranean – 16 Jan. 1832, to the Victory again, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Thos. Foley and Sir Thos. Williams – 1 May, 1833, and 5 Sept. 1835, to the San Josef 110, and Royal Adelaide 104, bearing each the flag of Sir Wm. Hargood at Plymouth, where he continued until paid off, in April, 1836 – and, 11 June, 1845, to the Rodney 92, Capt. Edw. Collier, part of the Channel squadron. He acquired the rank of Commander 27 Jan. 1847.
Commander Forster married, 20 Sept. 1832, Mary, niece of Capt. Edw. Wallis Hoare, R.N., sister of Commander Wm. O’B. Hoare, R.N., and daughter of Sir Joseph Wallis Hoare, Bart., by Lady Harriet O’Bryen, sister of Vice-Admiral the Marquess of Thomond, G.C.H.; and became a widower 11 Dec. 1836. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Goodman's Fields Press

​GOODMAN'S FIELDS PRESS, London, 1645. A secret press, supposed to have belonged to William Larner, the Independent bookseller, was seized by Joseph Hunscot, the searcher for the Stationers' Company, in a house ​in Goodman's Fields, Whitechapel, some time between July and December, 1645. It is believed to have been the same press from which the Martin Mar-Priest tracts had appeared earlier in the year, and to have been hurriedly removed from Bishopsgate Street to avoid seizure. The following books are known to have been printed at it: (1) The Copy of a Letter from Lieutenant Colonell John Lilburne, to a friend. [August 9th, 1645.] 4$^o$.; (2) England's Birthright justified against all Arbitrary Usurpation, etc. [October 10th, 1645.] 4$^o$. [Library, N.S., October, 1904, Secret Printing during the Civil War, pp. 374-403.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Grantham (William)

​GRANTHAM (WILLIAM), bookseller in London, (1) Black Bear in St. Paul's Churchyard; (2) Bear in St. Paul's Church Yard, near the little North door. 1646-75. In partnership for a time with Nathaniel Webb, who, some time between 1655 and 1660, set up for himself at the King's Head in St. Paul's Churchyard. T. Gerey's Meditations upon God, 1658, contains after the "Contents" a four-page list of books sold by Grantham and Webb in 1658. It consists entirely of theological works, and was re-issued without alteration and without date two years later, at the end of a sermon by the same preacher called A Mirrour for Anabaptists. The last entry to Grantham in the Term Catalogues is Michaelmas, 1675.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Graves (William)

​GRAVES (WILLIAM), bookseller in Cambridge; Regent Walk, 1631(?)-65. His name is found on Richard Watson's Sermon touching Schism, 1642, Liber Job Graeco carmine redditus per J. D. Editio altera … 1653. [Bowes' Cambridge Books, p. 28, No. 75; p. 34, No. 99.] A William Graves paid church rate from 1631 to 163 4/5 for Great St. Maries. [Foster's Churchwardens' Accounts.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Gould (Thomas)

​GOULD (THOMAS), bookseller in London; The Church in Chancery Lane, 1635-59. Took up his freedom May 6th, 1633. [Arber, iii. 687.] His name is found on a broadside entitled A Perfect List of the Lords [Hazlitt, ii. 712], and other political pamphlets.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Gray (James)

​GRAY (JAMES), bookseller in Edinburgh; At the upper side of the Great Kirk Stile, 1647. Known only from the imprint to D. Dickson's Brief Exposition of … Matthew. No. 1271 in Mr. Aldis's List of Books Printed in Scotland.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Green (Benjamin)

​GREEN (BENJAMIN), bookseller in London; Three Leg Court in Fleet Street, over against the White Friars, 1632-46. Took up his freedom June 9th, 1628. [Arber, iii. 686.] In partnership with Moses Bell, q.v. On October 27th, 1632, they entered in the Registers a broadside called A Yearly Continuation of the Lord Maiours and Sherriffs of London. [Arber, iv. 287.] Benj. Green's name is found on another broadside beginning To the Right Honourable Thomas Adams … [B.M. 669. f. 10, 74.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Green (George), senior

​GREEN (GEORGE), senior, bookseller in London, 1621-42. Took up his freedom April 9th, 1621. [Arber, iii. 685.] There was also a George Green, junior, q.v. One of them was associated with John Jackson and F. Smith, in 1642, in publishing a broadside entitled A Catalogue of sundry knights … [Hazlitt, ii. 359.] Their addresses have not been found.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Green (Charles)

​GREEN (CHARLES), bookseller in London, (1) White Lion, St. Paul's Churchyard; (2) Gun in Ivy Lane. 1631-48. Took up his freedom June 30th, 1631. [Arber, iii. 686.] Publisher of plays and romances. On November 13th, 1633, he entered in the Stationers' Registers Thomas Morton's New Englands Canaan. This is a remarkable instance of the registration of copyright long before publication, as no copies of the book have been found with an earlier date than 1637, when it was printed at Amsterdam by Frederick Stam. Some copies are found with Greene's name, but without date, while internal evidence goes to prove that the book could not have been printed in 1633. [Publications of the Prince Society, Boston, Mass., 1883, edited by Ch. F. Adams, junr.] Charles Green was afterwards associated with Peter Whaley. He is probably the Charles Greene to whom Peter Parker, q.v., left a bequest of a ring in 1648.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Green (George), junior

​GREEN (GEORGE), junior, bookseller in London, 1637-42. Took up his freedom February 6th, 1637. [Arber, iii. 688.] There was also a George Green, senior.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Greene (Thomas)

​GREENE (THOMAS), bookseller in London, 1643. Only known from the imprint to a pamphlet entitled A Chaleng sent from Prince Rupert and the Lord Grandison, to Sir William Belford … London, Printed for Thomas Greene, 1643. [B.M. 21 b. 10 (34).] A Thomas Greene, son of Robert Greene, of Brotherton, co. York, was apprenticed to William Jaggard on October 25th, 1602, for eight years. [Arber, ii. 267], but there is no record of his having taken up his freedom.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Griffiths, William Nelson

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​GRIFFITHS. (Lieut., 1823. f-p., 10; h-p., 26.)
William Nelson Griffiths entered the Navy, 9 April, 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Salvador del Mundo, Capt, Nash, lying at Plymouth. Between 13 May and 6 Nov, in the same year, he successively served, on the Mediterranean station, ​in the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Pellew, Fame 74, Capt. Walter Bathurst, Unité 36, Capt. Edwin Henry Chamberlayne, Cerberus 32, Capt. Henry Whitby, and Cambrian 40, Capt. Chas. Bullen. In April, 1812, he rejoined Capt. Whitby on board the Briton 38, at Chatham, whence he almost immediately sailed for North America, as Midshipman, in the Tenedos 38, Capt. Hyde Parker, under whom we find him, in Jan. 1815, witnessing the capture of the U.S. frigate President. From Oct. in the latter year until Feb. 1818, Mr. Griffiths, with the exception of a few months at Portsmouth, was employed, at Plymouth, on board the Ramillies 74, Malta 84, and Rivoli and Melville 74’s, Capts. Chas. Ogle, Aiskew Paffard Hollis, and Henry Chas. Pemberton. He then proceeded to the West Indies in the Drake sloop, Capt. Henry Shiffner; and was afterwards, during the years 1819-23, attached to Capt. Parry’s polar expeditions, in the Griper brig, Lieut.-Commander Matthew Liddon, and Hecla bomb, Capt. Geo. Fras. Lyon. Since the attainment of his present rank, 13 Nov. 1823, Lieut. Griffiths has been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Grieve, Adam

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​GRIEVE. (Retired Commander, 1843.)
Adam Grieve was born 25 April, 1770, at Leith, and died about Sept. 1845, at Weymouth.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Feb. 1797, as Master’s Mate, on board the Kite 18, Capt. Wm. Brown, and, after an intermediate employment in the North Sea, assumed charge, 3 May, 1798, of the Olive Branch fire-ship, lying at Woolwich. ​Returning to the Kite in the following Sept., he continued to serve in that vessel, under the command of Capt. Chas. Lydiard, on the same station as before, until Jan. 1801, at which period he became attached to the Leda 38, Capt. Geo. Hope. We subsequently find him, in 1802, 3, and 4, joining the Pique 36, Capt. Wm. Cumberland, Utrecht 64, and Prince of Orange 74, both commanded by Capt. Thos. Rogers, and Dart 28, Capt. Wm. Brownrigg, all on the Home station; and, on being next removed to the Defence 74, Capt. Geo. Hope, particularly distinguishing himself by his exertions at the battle of Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805. When in the Leda Mr. Grieve appears, in consequence of an accident, to have had several of his teeth knocked out, and to have lost some large pieces of his jaw; and, when in the Dart, to have officiated as Acting-Master in an operation against the enemy off Calais. On his eventual return from a voyage to the Cape, whither he had gone with Capt. Hope in the Theseus 74, he was promoted, 30 June, 1807, to a Lieutenancy in the Elizabeth 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Curzon. His subsequent appointments were – 17 Aug. 1808, to the Sparrow 16, Capt. Edw. Burt, in the West Indies – 18 Sept. 1810, to the Abercromby 74, Capt. Wm. Chas. Fahie, off Lisbon – and, 17 April, 1812, to the command of a Signal station on the island of Alderney. He went on half-pay 4 June, 1814, and, unable from the state of his health to seek further employment, accepted the rank of Retired Commander 6 April, 1843.
Commander Grieve married, 22 July, 1811, Miss Elizabeth Terrell, and by that lady has left issue two sons and three daughters. His eldest son, Adam John Geo. Grieve, commands the Rob Roy Revenue-vessel.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Griffith, Smyth

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​GRIFFITH. (Lieut., 1823. f-p., 32; h-p., 3.)
Smyth Griffith entered the Navy, 6 Nov 1812 as Third-cl. Boy, on board the Malta 84, Capt. Sam. Hood Inglefield, bearing the flag in the ​Mediterranean of Rear-Admiral Benj. Hallowell. Towards the close of 1815 he sailed for St. Helena as Midshipman of the Phaeton 38, Capt. Fras. Stanfell, under whom – with the exception of a servitude of a few months in 1818 on board the Rochfort 80, and Liffey 50, commanded at Portsmouth and Chatham hy Capts. Sir Archibald Collingwood Dickson and Hon. Henry Duncan – he continued to be there employed, in the same ship, and in the Conqueror 74, until Oct. 1820. He then joined the Sybille frigate, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Rowley on the Jamaica station, where, on 16 June, 1823, he was confirmed a Lieutenant in the Surinam 18, Capt. Chas. Crole. His appointments have since been – 12 Aug. 1824, 24 Oct. 1824, and 17 March, 1825, to the Eden 26, Isis 50, and Thracian 18, Capts. John Lawrence, Thos. Forrest, and Andw. Forbes, stationed in the West Indies and South America – 23 Feb. 1827, to the Tyne 28, Capt. Sir Rich. Grant, employed, until June, 1830, on Particular Service – 25 Nov. 1831, and 9 July, 1836, to the successive command of the Swallow and Magnet Falmouth packets – 22 July, 1842, to the Coast Guard – and, 14 March, 1846, to be Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel, in which capacity he is now serving.
Lieut. Griffith married, 29 March, 1834, Ellen, eldest daughter of Thos. Galloway, Esq., Surgeon R.N. (1801). Agent – J. Chippendale.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Griffiths, Edward

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​GRIFFITHS. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 16; h-p., 28.)
Edward Griffiths was born 22 Nov. 1792, at Plymouth, co. Devon.
This officer entered the Navy, 2 April, 1803, as Third-cl. Vol., on board the Gladiator, Lieut. Commander John Bell Connolly, bearing the flag at Portsmouth of Rear-Admiral John Holloway; from which ship he soon afterwards removed to the Magnificent 74, Capt. Wm. Henry Jervis, forming part of the in-shore squadron off Brest, where he was wrecked during a gale of wind on the Black Rocks in March, 1804. Between 21 June, 1804, and 17 Feb. 1814, he was employed in succession with Capt. Chas. Dashwood on board the Bacchante 20, Franchise 36, Pyramus 38, and Cressy 74, chiefly as Midshipman and Master’s Mate. In addition to the services detailed in our memoir of that officer, Mr. Griffiths, in 1806, while serving in the Franchise, fought and was wounded by a musket-ball passing through his right thigh in an action with four Spanish armed brigs off the Havana. Shortly after leaving the Cressy he joined the Tonnant 80, bearing the flag of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, under whom, besides participating in many active operations in the Chesapeake, he attended the expedition against New Orleans, where he was attached to the Rocket Brigade, and assisted in taking the enemy’s fort on the left bank of the Mississippi. Attaining the rank of Lieutenant 2 Feb. 1815, he next, from 18 March to 24 June following, served in that capacity on board the Majestic 58, Capt. John Hayes. From 27 July, 1825, until Sept. 1827, and from 14 July, 1843, until 22 Feb. 1844, wefind him employed both in the Coast Blockade and in the Transport service. Between 18 April, 1845, and May, 1847, Mr. Griffiths was again engaged in the latter department of the Navy. While employed on the Coast Blockade he received two letters of thanks from the Admiralty and the French Consul-General for his exertions in saving the hull and cargo of vessels driven on shore in gales of wind off Winchelsea.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Griffiths, Herbert Lloyd

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​GRIFFITHS. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Herbert Lloyd Griffiths is eldest son of Commander Joseph Griffiths, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 11 May, 1828; passed his examination 5 Jan. 1833; obtained an appointment in the Coast Guard 25 June, 1840; and, on 7 March, 1842, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His appointments have since been – 5 April, 1842, as Additional, to the Illustrious 72, flag-ship in North America and the West Indies of Sir Chas. Adam – 31 Dec. 1842, to the Electra 18, Capt, Arthur Darley, on the same station – 18 Oct, 1843, to the Imaum 72, receiving-ship at Jamaica, Capt. Alex. Kenton Sharpe – 22 Dec. 1844, to the Scylla 16, Capt. Robt. Sharpe, also employed in North America and the West Indies – and 14 April, 1846, as First, to the Wanderer 12, Capt. Philip Hodge Somerville, with whom he is now serving on the coast of Africa.