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# A Compendium of Irish Biography/Bunworth, Charles

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​Bunworth, Charles, Rev., rector of Buttevant, educated at Trinity College, (M.A. 1730), was distinguished for his patronage and knowledge of Irish music. He was a good harpist, and at the time of his decease, in 1770, possessed fifteen harps, bequeathed to him from time to time by members of the then rapidly dying-out race of minstrels, out of gratitude for his hospitality and care. He examined Curran before going up to college, and gave him assistance towards prosecuting his studies.
# A Compendium of Irish Biography/Browne, John Ross

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​Browne, John Ross, traveller and author, was born in Ireland about the year 1822. Of his early years little is on record, beyond the fact that he was taken to America in childhood, and that he passed his youth in the State of Kentucky. When eighteen, he qualified himself as a shorthand reporter, and went to Washington with the view of earning money with which to travel. After a few months, not being successful, he shipped before the mast on a whaler bound for the Indian Ocean, and was absent eighteen mouths. On his return, he published his first work, Etchings of a Whaling Cruise. In 1849 he went to California, and was employed in reporting the proceedings of the convention which drafted the State Constitution. He then made the tour of the south of Europe, and the East. Returning, he settled in California—travelling from time to time in various parts of Europe and America, and recording his experiences in sundry books of travels, and in numerous articles in Harper's Magazine, written in a graphic and humorous style, and illustrated with clever sketches from his own pencil. In 1866, and again in 1868, having been commissioned for the purpose by the Government, he drew up valuable reports on the mineral resources of the States and Territories west of the Rocky Mountains. In 1868 he was sent as United States' minister to China, where he remained two years. On his return, he built a residence near Oakland, California, and devoted himself to the care of a numerous family, and to the promotion of various industrial schemes for the development of the resources of the country. He died rather suddenly, at Oakland, 7th December 1875, aged 53. He is described as singularly versatile and keen-witted, a delightful companion, genial in manners, possessing a graceful, fluent, and often brilliant style, good powers of observation, and a fund of quiet humour.
# A Compendium of Irish Biography/Brownrigg, Sir Robert

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​Brownrigg, Sir Robert, Bart., General, was born in Ireland about 1759. He was appointed Military Secretary to the Duke of York in 1795, and accompanied him to Holland in 1799; in July 1809 he was Quartermaster-General in the expedition to the Schelt. In 1813 he was appointed Governor of Ceylon, and held the position until 1820. In 1815 he conquered the kingdom of Candy, in the interior of the island, and annexed it to the British crown. Sir Robert Brownrigg was created a baronet in 1816, and attained the ​full rank of General in 1819. He died near Monmouth, 27th April 1833, aged 74.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gordon, James Alexander (b)

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​GORDON. (Commander, 1842.)
James Alexander Gordon was born 19 March, 1816, and died 6 Jan. 1847. He was only son of Rear-Admiral Sir Jas. A. Gordon, K.C.B.
This officer entered the Navy 16 March, 1829; passed his examination 6 May, 1835; and obtained his first commission 27 June, 1838. His appointments, as Lieutenant, were – 17 Sept. 1838, as Additional, to the Niagara 20, Capt. Williams Sandom, on the Lakes of Canada – 23 Oct. 1839, in a similar capacity, to the Donegal 78, flag-ship off Lisbon of Sir John Acworth Ommanney – and (after several months of half-pay), 18 Aug. 1841, as Senior, to the Warspite 50, Capt. Lord John Hay, on the North America and West India station. He attained the rank of Commander 15 Oct. 1842; and, from 17 Jan. 1845 until the period of his death, which took place as above off Labuan, on the coast of Borneo, commanded the Wolf sloop, of 18 guns. Agents – Coplands and Burnett.
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gordon, James Alexander (c)

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​GORDON. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 12; h-p., 31.)
James Alexander Gordon (a) entered the Navy, 16 April, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ville de Paris 110, Capt. Thos. Le Marchant Gosselin, bearing the flag of Hon. Wm. Cornwallis, Commander-in-Chief in the Channel, where he attained the rating of Midshipman 1 Nov. following. Removing, in Nov. 1806, to the Royal Sovereign 100, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Vice-Admiral Edw. Thornbrough, he there served for four years, principally at the blockade of Toulon. He then returned to England in the Montagu 74, Capt. John Halliday, and after a brief attachment to the Egmont 74, Capt. Joseph Bingham, fitting at Sheerness, joined the Laurestinus 24, Capts. Hon. Wm. Gordon and Thos. Graves; in which ship, having first visited the Rio de la Plata, and escorted convoy to Halifax, he took a warm part, as Master’s Mate, in the hostilities against the Americans in the Chesapeake, and was present in the attack upon Crany Island. The Laurestinus being in the end wrecked, on the Silver Keys, off the Bahamas, on the night of 21 Aug, 1813, Mr. Gordon came home in the Diomede troop-ship, Capt. Chas. Montagu Fabian, but sailed soon after his arrival for Bermuda as Admiralty-Midshipman of the Asia 64, flagship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane; by whom he was appointed, 1 April, 1814, Lieutenant of the Manly 14, Capts. Henry C. Merser, Nagle Lock, and Chas. Simeon. His promotion being confirmed by commission dated 26 May in the same year, he continued to serve in the Manly until paid off in Sept. 1815, and had thus an opportunity of being again employed in the Chesapeake, and of accompanying the expedition to New Orleans. He has since, however, been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gordon, John

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​GORDON. (Captain, 1818. f-p., 12; h-p., 30.)
The Honourable John Gordon is youngest brother of Rear-Admiral Hon. Wm. Gordon, R.N., M.P. This officer entered the Navy, 15 April, 1805, as L.M., on board the Medusa 38, Capt. Sir John Gore, with whom, after accompanying the late Marquess Cornwallis to India, and returning home with the remains of that distinguished nobleman, he removed, as Midshipman, in Feb. 1806, to the Revenge 74, and furtner served for a period of two years and nine months in the Channel and off Cadiz, lie then successively joined the Ardent 64, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Jas. Vashon, Conqueror 74, Capt. Edw. Fellowes, Peacock 38, Capt. Wm. Peake, Nymphe 36, Capts. Hon. Josceline Percy and Edw. Sneyd Clay, and Aquilon 32, Capt. Wm. Bowles, all employed on the Home station, where, in the Nymphe, he was wrecked, at the entrance of the Frith of Forth, 18 Dec. 1810. Being promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 21 March, 1812, Mr. Gordon’s appointments in that capacity, we find, were, to the Révolutionnaire and Seahorse frigates, commanded on the Western Island and North American stations by Capts. John Chos. Woollcombe and Sir Jas. Alex. Gordon; the latter of which ships he left a few days subsequently to his advancement to the rank of Commander 15 June, 1814. After a ten months’ command of the Carnation 18, on the Newfoundland station, Capt. Gordon was there appointed, on 20 Nov. 1818, Acting-Captain of the Tamar 26. He was confirmed in Post-rank 31 Dec. following, but does not appear to have been invested with any further employment until appointed, 22 Feb. 1844, to the America 50. He resigned the command of that ship, after having intermediately served in her on the Pacific and Mediterranean stations, for the purpose of accepting the Retirement, 1 Oct. 1846. Agents – Pettet and Newton.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gordon, Robert

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​GORDON. (Captain, 1837. f-p., 12; h-p., 25.)
Robert Gordon, born 7 Sept. 1796, is third son of the late David Gordon, Esq., of Abergeldie, co. Aberdeen (a direct descendant of Alexander Lord Gordon, who was created Earl of Huntly in 1449), by Anne, third daughter of Michael Biddulph, Esq., of Ledbury, co. Hereford; and next brother of Michael Fras. Gordon, Esq., now of Abergeldie, a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Aberdeenshire.
This officer entered the Navy, 24 May, 1810, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Phoebe of 44 guns and 271 men, Capt. Jas. Hillyar; in which frigate, subsequently to the reduction of the Isle of France, he contributed, 20 May, 1811 (while cruizing off Madagascar in company with the Astrea and Galatea, frigates nearly equal in force to the Phoebe, and 18-gun brig Racehorse), to the capture – after a long and trying action with the French 40-gun frigates Rénommée, Clorinde and Néréide, and a loss to the Phoebe of 7 men killed and 24 wounded – of the Rénommée. On 25 of the same month he was further present at the surrender of the Néréide, and of the settlement of Tamatave; and in the following summer he co-operated in the conquest of the island of Java. Removing, as Midshipman, in Jan. 1813, to the Centaur 74, Capt. John Chambers White, Mr. Gordon cruized in that ship on the North Sea and Channel stations, until again transferred, in Jan. 1814, to the Tonnant 80, bearing the successive flags, on the North American and Cork stations, of Sir Alex. Cochrane and Sir Benj. Hallowell, under the former of whom he took part in many operations against the American enemy, and was present in the attack upon New Orleans. He left the Tonnant in July, 1816, for the purpose of joining the Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ship of Lord Exmouth, who, investing him soon with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, enabled him to share in that capacity in the ensuing bombardment of Algiers. He was accordingly awarded an Admiralty commission dated 16 of the following Sept.; but he did not again go afloat until 6 Sept. 1819. He then obtained an appointment to the Iphigenia frigate, Capt. Hyde Parker, on the Jamaica station, where he next joined, 3 June, 1820, the Ontario 18, Capt. Whitworth Lloyd, and where, on 13 of the following month, he assumed the acting-command of the Confiance 18. The latter sloop, to which he appears to have been confirmed 3 Oct. 1820, Capt. Gordon paid off 28 Sept. 1821. His subsequent appointments were – 20 Nov. 1830, for a period of two months, to the Herald yacht, lying at Portsmouth – and, 22 Nov. 1831, to the Pearl 20, on the West India station, which vessel was put out of commission 20 Dec. 1834. Capt. Gordon, who has not since been employed, attained Post-rank 10 Jan. 1837. He is one of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gordon, James Edward

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​GORDON. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 11; h-p., 32.)
James Edward Gordon entered the Navy, 16 April, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ville de Paris 110, Capt. Thos. Le Marchant Gosselin, flagship in the Channel of Hon. Wm. Cornwallis, by whom he was soon awarded the rating of Midshipman. Between 25 Nov. 1806 and 5 May, 1811, he served, on the Mediterranean and Lisbon stations, in the Royal Sovereign 100, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Edw. Thornbrough, Malta 84, Capt. Robt. Waller Otway, Ville de Paris again, flag-ship at the time of Lord Collingwood, and Barfleur 98, bearing the flag of Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley. He then became Acting-Lieutenant of the Vestal, Capt. Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley, and on 17 of the same month had the fortune to be confirmed by the Admiralty. His succeeding appointments were – on the North Sea and American stations – 16 Nov. 1811, to the Valiant 74, Capt. Robt. Dudley Oliver – 21 Dec. 1812, to the Lacedaemonian 38, Capt. Sam. Jackson – and 16 Nov. 1814, to the command of the St. Lawrence schooner, of 12 12-pounder carronades, 1 long 9-pounder, and 51 men. In the latter vessel Mr. Gordon had the ill luck, while proceeding with despatches from Rear-Admiral Cockburn relative to the peace between Great Britain and the United States, to be captured, after a desperate and sanguinary action, by the American privateer brig Chasseur, of 6 long 9-pounders, 8 18-pounder carronades, and 115 men, 26 Feb. 1815. Being shortly afterwards, however, retaken, the St. Lawrence, in compliance with the orders of Sir Jas. Alex. Gordon, was commissioned afresh at the Havana by her late Commander, who nevertheless went on half-pay on 23 of the following April, and has not since been employed.
Lieut. Gordon sat for some time as M.P. for Dundalk. He married, 25 Oct. 1836, Barbara, daughter of the late Sam. Smith, Esq., of Berkeley Square, London, and of Woodnall Park, Herts. Agents – Coplands and Burnett.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gordon, James Gabriel

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​GORDON. (Commander, 1815. f-p., 17; h-p., 29.)
James Gabriel Gordon entered the Navy, 19 Aug. 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Vengeance 74, Capt. Geo. Duff, of which ship, successively stationed in the Channel and West Indies, he became Midshipman 5 Sept. following. During the years 1802-3 he appears to have been employed at Portsmouth on board the Neptune 98, Capts. Eras. Wm. Austen and Wm. O’Brien Drury, Topaze 38, Capt. Willoughby Thos. Lake, and Puissant 74, Capt. John Irwin. Joining, then, the Illustrious 74, Capts. Sir Chas. Hamilton, Michael Seymour, Wm. Shield, and Wm. Robt. Broughton, he commanded the barge belonging to that ship at the cutting out of a brig from Vivero Harbour, was also present at the attack on the French fleet in Aix Roads, and had further charge of a gun-boat during the expedition to the Walcheren, where he was severely wounded. We are informed that on 18 Dec. 1809 Mr. Gordon, while in the Freija frigate, witnessed the capture, at Guadeloupe, of the two French frigates Loire and Seine. He shortly afterwards joined the Pompée 80, bearing the flag of Sir Alex. Cochrane, by whom, on 22 Jan. 1810, he was promoted, in consequence of a death vacancy, to a Lieutenancy in the Guadeloupe sloop, Capt. Michael Head, part of the force employed at the ensuing reduction of the island bearing that name. Being confirmed by the Admiralty 3 Oct. following, Mr. Gordon next joined – on 6 of the same month, the Tonnant 80, Capt. Sir John Gore – and in 1812-14, the Egmont, Porcupine, and Queen, flag-ships on the Home and Mediterranean stations of Rear-Admirals Sir Geo. Hope and Chas. Vinicombe Penrose, under the latter of whom, after sharing in the operations connected with the forcing ​of the Gironde in April, 1814, he officiated as Flag-Lieutenant until the receipt of his second promotal commission bearing date 20 July, 1815. With the exception of a three years’ command in the Ordinary at Sheerness, which he held from 28 April, 1827, until 1830, he remained on half-pay till 31 Dec. 1846; since which period he has been in command of the Ocean 80, guard-ship at Sheerness. Agents – Holmes and Folkard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gordon, William (b)

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​GORDON. (Captain 1841. f-p., 12;h-p., 31.)
William Gordon entered the Navy, in July, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Northumberland 74, Capt. Jas. Oswald, bearing the flag, off Ferrol, and then in the West Indies, of Rear-Admiral Hon. Alex. Cochrane. Being appointed Midshipman, in Aug. 1805, of the Kingfisher 18, Capt. Nathaniel Day Cochrane, he shared in that vessel in the action off St. Domingo, 6 Feb. 1806; after which he served under the present Earl of Dundonald in the Pallas and Impérieuse frigates, and figured in all the glittering scenes which we have described in his Lordship’s memoir as having been enacted between 6 April, 1806, and 4 Aug. 1809. Continuing to serve in the Impérieuse under Capts. Alex. Skene and Thos. Garth, Mr. Gordon accompanied the latter officer in the expedition to the Walcheren. During the two years and a half immediately prior to his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 21 March, 1812, he appears to have been further employed, on the Baltic, Home, and Mediterranean stations, in the Hussar 38, Capts. Alex. Skene and Jas. Coutts Crawford, Argo 44, Capt. Fred. Warren, and Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Pellew. His next appointments were to the Pylades 18, Capt. Jas. Wemyss, Blake 74, Capt. Edw. Codrington, Bucephalus troop-ship, Capt. Geo. Wm. Hughes D’Aeth, and Seahorse 38, Capt. Sir Jas. Alex. Gordon; in the two last-mentioned of which ships he took part in the operations connected with the attack upon New Orleans. The Pylades and Blake were employed on the Mediterranean station. Having obtained his second promotion 13 June, 1815, and been in command, from 8 Jan. 1823 until 27 July 1825, of the Pandora 18, on the Newfoundland station, Capt. Gordon was ultimately, on 23 Nov. 1841, presented with a Post-commission. He is now on half-pay. Agents – Messrs, Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gordon, James Murray

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​GORDON. (Rear-Admiral of the Blue, 1846. f-p., 14; h-p., 39.)
James Murray Gordon, born 6 March, 1782, is son of the late Thos. Gordon, Esq.; and brother of the late Lieut.-Colonel Thos. Wm. Gordon, of the Fusileer Guards.
This officer entered the Navy, 25 June, 1794, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Brittania 100, Capt. John Holloway, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Admiral Wm. Hotham, in whose ensuing action of 13 July with the French fleet we believe he was a participator. After serving for rather more than five years as Midshipman, on the same, and on the Home and East India stations, in the Tarlton, Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, and Virginie, Capts. Anth. Hunt and Geo. Astle, Mr. Gordon became Acting-Lieutenant, 18 July, 1800, of the Vulcan bomb, Capts. Jeremiah Skelton, Peter Heywood, and Chas. Jas. Johnston, also stationed in the East Indies; where he removed in a similar capacity to the Trincomalee 13, and Dédaigneuse frigate, both commanded by Capt. Heywood; to which latter vessel he was confirmed by commission dated 25 Feb. 1803. He assumed the acting-command, on 26 May, 1805, of the Albatross sloop, and, being officially appointed to that vessel 1 Feb. 1806, continued to serve in her in the East until 28 Feb. 1807. He then returned to England, but was soon again ordered to India in the Procris 18, of which vessel he assumed command on 19 of the following Oct. As a Post-Captain, a rank he attained 15 Feb. 1808, Capt. Gordon was further employed on that station, in the Terpsichore frigate, from 28 April in the same year, until 28 July, 1809. We do not find that he has since held any appointment. His promotion to Flag-rank took place 9 Nov. 1846.
Rear-Admiral Gordon married, 10 Dec. 1810, Sarah Almeria, daughter of Archdeacon Caulfeild, and relict of Capt. Charlton, E.I.Co.’s Service. By that lady, who died 21 Dec. 1821, he had issue two sons and two daughters. The second son, James, Lieutenant in the 92nd Highlanders, died in 1841. Agents – Pettet and Newton.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Moore, William Henry

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​MOORE. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 16; h-p., 29.)
William Henry Moore was born 27 June, 1790. His elder brother, Mr. J. H. Moore, was at one time a Midshipman in the service.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Jan. 1802, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Spitfire 18, Capt. Robt. Keen, with whom he served in the St. George’s Channel until Aug. 1804. Becoming Midshipman, in April, 1805, of L’Impétueux 74, Capts. Thos. Byam Martin and John Lawford, he witnessed, 22 Aug. following, Admiral Hon. Wm. Cornwallis’ pursuit of the French fleet into Brest harbour, and was subsequently, in 1810, employed in that ship’s boats on the river Tagus. In May, 1811, he was appointed, on promotion, to the Antelope 50, bearing the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth at Newfoundland, where he remained until the ensuing Dec.; and he was next, in Oct. 1813, received on board the Hebrus, of 42 guns and 284 men, Capt. Edm. Palmer, in which ship we find him assisting, under Cape La Hogue, at the capture, 27 March, 1814, of the French frigate L’Etoile, of 44 guns and 315 men, after a close and obstinate engagement of two hours and a quarter, in which the British had 13 men killed and 25 wounded, and the enemy 40 killed and 73 wounded. In April of the year last mentioned he was appointed, again on promotion, to the Bellerophon 74, flag-ship at Newfoundland of Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats, under whose orders he continued until at length advanced to the rank of Lieutenant, 8 Feb. 1815. He afterwards, from 25 April, 1834, until May, 1837, served in the Ordinary at Sheerness, latterly on board the Téméraire 104, Capt. Thos, Fortescue Kennedy. He has been employed, since 26 Sept. 1845, in the Caledonia 120, Capt. Manley Hall Dixon, on the Home station.
Lieut. Moore married, 5 April, 1826, Miss Mary Horsford.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Moore, Joseph Henry

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​MOORE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 32.)
Joseph Henry Moore was born 16 June, 1791, at Bath.
This officer entered the Navy, 15 Dec. 1804, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Euryalus 36, Capts. Hon. Henry Blackwood and Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas; in which frigate he took part in the battle of Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805, and was employed on various particular services. After an attachment of nearly 12 months to the Naiad 38, Capts. Geo. Cox and Henry Hill, he became Midshipman, in July, 1810, of the Ruby 64, and then of the Vigo 74, flag-ships of Rear-Admirals Manley Dixon and Jas. Nicoll Morris on the Baltic station, where for more than two years he endured much fatigue in the escort of convoys, and in the performance of other harassing duties. On his removal to the Shamrock brig, Capts. Andw. Pellet Green and John Marshall, he assisted at the capture, in Nov. 1813, of two strong batteries at Cuxhaven, and, in Jan. 1814, of the redoubtable fortress of Glückstadt. In consideration of his services on the latter occasion, he was invested with the command, in the following April, of a division of gun-boats, and was directed to co-operate in the reduction of Hamburgh and Harburgh; off which places, as officially testified, he continued very creditably employed, until compelled to invalid from the effects of a severe wound in the left hand, of which he has since lost the use. Prior to that unfortunate event he had been sent on shore for the purpose of seizing, and selling by public auction for the use of the British, all confiscated goods belonging to the Danish Government. Between July, 1814, and Aug. 1815, he served, on the Home and Irish stations, in the Tamar 24, Capt. Chas. Sothehy, Havock 12, Capt. Geo. Truscott, and, the last seven months as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Trent, flag-ship of Sir Herbert Sawyer. He then took up a commission dated 13 Feb. 1815; and has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Moore, in compensation for his wound, was granted, 22 Sept. 1818, a pension of 91l. 5s. He married, in Jan. 1815; and has issue nine children. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.